Gender Identity And Suicide Research

Gender identity does not originate through your reproductive or sexual anatomy, but rather through the brain. “It is your state of being, the way you think of yourself, who you really are”, and is impossible to change that self- declared gender identity of a child but, if doing so will cause harm. According to a 2013 study, due to the lack of social support and discrimination, it has been estimated that 77 percent of transgender people in Ontario at the age 16 and over had seriously considered suicide at some point, and 43 percent had attempted to do suicide. But researchers have shown that a number of factors can lessen suicide risk, including strong parental gender identification support, and access to transition tools such as hormone therapies