Queer Latinx Youth Suicide Risk | Trevor Project Interview
Queer Latinx Youth Are Reporting Suicide Attempts at an Alarming Rate — Here's Why
![PS: For someone reading this, thinking, "30 percent, that feels very high," does that sound very high to you?
AG: In a sense, if you look at the percentages of increase, then we do see that 30 percent. But you're talking in the percentiles. If you look at the percentages, while they're high, the 30 percent [is] the difference between 17 percent and 14 percent. And so, in some ways, folks can say, "Well, you're looking at 17 percent that have attempted suicide vs. 14 percent" — that's a 30 percent increase. Each one of those is a life, of a youth. So any type of increased risk is significant.
PS: Does The Trevor Project have similar information about the risk associated with being Black and LGBTQ and how that affects suicide prevention?
AG: So, that is the next report that's coming out . . . We do have a large report led by our research scientist Myeshia Price-Feeney, who has put together what should be the largest source to date of research on Black LGBTQ youth, coming out next.
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AG: In a sense, if you look at the percentages of increase, then we do see that 30 percent. But you're talking in the percentiles. If you look at the percentages, while they're high, the 30 percent [is] the difference between 17 percent and 14 percent. And so, in some ways, folks can say, \"Well, you're looking at 17 percent that have attempted suicide vs. 14 percent\" — that's a 30 percent increase. Each one of those is a life, of a youth. So any type of increased risk is significant.
PS: Does The Trevor Project have similar information about the risk associated with being Black and LGBTQ and how that affects suicide prevention?
AG: So, that is the next report that's coming out . . . We do have a large report led by our research scientist Myeshia Price-Feeney, who has put together what should be the largest source to date of research on Black LGBTQ youth, coming out next.
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PS: For someone reading this, thinking, "30 percent, that feels very high," does that sound very high to you?
AG: In a sense, if you look at the percentages of increase, then we do see that 30 percent. But you're talking in the percentiles. If you look at the percentages, while they're high, the 30 percent [is] the difference between 17 percent and 14 percent. And so, in some ways, folks can say, "Well, you're looking at 17 percent that have attempted suicide vs. 14 percent" — that's a 30 percent increase. Each one of those is a life, of a youth. So any type of increased risk is significant.
PS: Does The Trevor Project have similar information about the risk associated with being Black and LGBTQ and how that affects suicide prevention?
AG: So, that is the next report that's coming out . . . We do have a large report led by our research scientist Myeshia Price-Feeney, who has put together what should be the largest source to date of research on Black LGBTQ youth, coming out next.
