This past week the Texas Attorney General sued a pediatrician for violating the state's ban on gender affirming care.

It's the first time that laws been enforced.

In all, more than half the states have laws that target transgender people one way or another,

including bathroom bans and school sports bans.

Now, as Ali Rogan reports, there's a new study that looks at how these laws affect young people's mental health.

Suicide attempts increased between 7 and 72 percent for transgender and non-binary young people living in states that enacted anti-trans legislation.

That's according to a new study by the Trevor Project, which works to end suicide among lesbian,

gay, bisexual, and transgender youth.

The study relied on national survey data from 61,000 transgender and non-binary youth, and the

results were published in the peer review journal Nature Human Behavior.

Trevor Project CEO James Black joins us now.

James, thank you so much for being here.

Tell us about the study.

How significant are the findings?

Very significant. And the study is not only significant, it's groundbreaking and is because it is the first time to our knowledge that a causal relationship has been shown between the states that are enacting

anti-trans legislation and the rate of suicide attempts. So that causal relationship

which is the highest level of research, is really important because it shows strong evidence that the enactment of these laws are causing an increase in suicide amongst non-binary and transgender youth in these states.

During the studies period from 2018 to 2022,

there were 48 pieces of legislation

against transgender young people

enacted in 19 states.

What types of laws were they? They run the gamut. So laws like

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