People in the United States who identify as transgender or nonbinary make up only a tiny fraction of the population, but they’ve been the targets of an outsized share of negative attention from lawmakers,

State-level laws restricting or threatening transgender rights can have significant adverse effects on trans and nonbinary young people’s mental health, according to new research from The Trevor Project,

The passage of anti-trans laws caused suicide attempts among trans and nonbinary youth to increase from 7 to 72%.

Researchers with the Trevor Project analyzed data from 61,000 transgender and nonbinary young people. They found that after states passed anti-LGBTQ+ laws, young people in those states were more like to attempt suicide.

Transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) youth have high rates of positive suicide risk screening in the emergency department, according to a study published online Sept. 4 in Academic Pediatrics. Amanda Burnside,