Transgender teens much more likely to attempt suicide

Transgender adolescents are far more likely to attempt suicide than teens whose identity matches what it says on their birth certificates, and trans male youth are especially at risk, a U.S. study suggests.

Roughly half of the transgender teens who identify as male but were assigned a female gender at birth have attempted suicide at least once, the study found.

And 42 percent of adolescents who don't identify exclusively as male or female have at least one prior suicide attempt.