A new study out of Canada found that suicide rates among transgender individuals were significantly higher than the general population, which of course by itself is not exactly news, but it does add to a growing body of research, which shows that, among other things, that people who actually go through with gender-affirming surgeries have higher

rates of suicide and poor mental health outcomes than those who don't. Let's go through this

research together, and I will quickly mention as a caveat that today's episode has all the

ingredients of getting suppressed by YouTube. We're talking about transgender individuals

as well as suicide, meaning if you could, please smash those like and subscribe buttons as basically a counterbalance to the system so that this video can actually reach more people via the YouTube algorithm.

Now, with that out of the way, the study that I referenced at the beginning came out of Canada and you can see it right there up on your screen.

The scientists conducted this

research by using data from trans-pulse Canada, which was a 2019 survey of trans and non-binary

people in Canada ages 14 plus. And after parsing through the data, they found a significantly

elevated risk factor for both suicidal ideation as well as attempt. Quote, finding show that over the past year, 30.2% of participants reported suicidal ideation,

and 4.2% reported a suicide attempt.

Six subgroups with varying levels of past year's suicidal ideation were identified

with a higher prevalence of ideation among those

with lower educational attainment, particularly youth age 16 to 24 with 49.4% and among college

educated participants who identified as disabled with 38.3%. In conclusion, past year suicidal

ideation and attempts were high compared to general population estimates

and were concentrated among those age 16 to 19 and amongst those 20 plus with a history of sex work.

Now again, this elevated level of suicidal ideation is not exactly news. Sadly, this group as a whole

has been known to have elevated levels of both ideation as well as attempts.

In fact, to that end, there was another study that was published just a few months ago out of

Denmark. And Denmark is an interesting case because they actually collect a lot more granular

health data compared to the U.S. so they can later go back and parse it out and get a much

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