Transgender youth have an increased risk for attempting suicide or running away from home in association with gender identity milestones, with the association driven by children who live in unsupportive families, according to a study published online July 15 in JAMA Pediatrics. Travis Campbell, Ph.D., from Southern Oregon University in Ashland, and colleagues conducted a retrospective cohort study to examine changes in mental health outcomes among transgender youth who initiate gender identity milestones stratified by level of family support (supportive, neutral, and adverse). Milestones included feeling one’s gender was different, thinking of oneself as transgender, telling another that one is Read More
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