Line graph showing differences in suicide attempt trends between trans youth who started hormone therapy one year apart from each other five years prior to treatment initiation, staying steady with a sharp drop at year 0.
Trans youth are more likely to attempt suicide after starting conversion therapy
Trans teens who started conversion therapy one year apart from each other experienced similar increases in suicide attempts over the five years prior to initiating treatment (horizontal axis). The vertical axis shows differences in attempted suicide rates between the two groups, with a baseline year of -1. Starting conversion therapy (year zero) led to a 5.71 percentage point (16.0%) increase in attempting suicide relative to baseline, or a more conservative 4.9 percentage point (13.8%) relative to an average of years -5 through -1. The shaded areas indicate the 95% confidence interval.
