PS: I know not much was known before this week — not in a hard-and-fast way — about Latinx youth's susceptibility to attempt suicide independent of non-Latinxs. That makes these findings relatively groundbreaking. Do you think this brief could change people's understanding of how to approach suicide prevention in the queer community, making it more accessible, perhaps?
"If we don't look at concerns of Latinx youth, and we don't look at concerns of trans and nonbinary youth, we're missing the key factors to address suicide prevention for those youth."
AG: I hope so. I hope that when folks see the results of this particular brief, that they realize we need to be looking intersectionally within the community, and that we can't just look at risk as one common thing that occurs. Yes, all LGBTQ youth have increased risk. But there are certain subsets of youth who may have — for example, trans and nonbinary youth are consistently at a higher risk of attempting suicide. And some of those factors are related to things like rejection of their gender, people misgendering them, not using consistent pronouns. And so, if we don't look at concerns of Latinx youth, and we don't look at concerns of trans and nonbinary youth, we're missing the key factors to address suicide prevention for those youth.
