Suici and Suici Risk Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr Populatns: Review and Remendatns - PMC

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• SUICI AND SUICI RISK LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR POPULATNS: REVIEW AND REMENDATNS
• REARCHERS FD DISPARI SUICI RISK AMONG LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL ADULTS

SUICI AND SUICI RISK LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR POPULATNS: REVIEW AND REMENDATNS

Metz (France) (AFP) – The suici of a 13-year-old French boy who was bullied at school for beg gay has shocked the untry, promptg warngs that homophobia kills. Regnal prosecutor Freric Nahon said late Thursday that the boy's iends told vtigators he had been bullied "by pupils at his school for several months due to his homosexualy" Friday, Nahon add at a news nference that Lus's journal ntaed an entry which "he exprsed his wish to take his own life" said an ongog vtigatn would terme whether there had been "a direct al lk" between the school bullyg and the suici, llg on police to proceed "wh utn" probe also need to verify the extent of any bullyg, for how long had gone on, and what exactly was said, the prosecutor vtigatn would also elucidate whether there had been any onle harassment, he fay has yet to file a crimal plat, but the suatn at the Louis Armand school the town of Golbey has been reported to the tn mistry, the prosecutor said. The Stop Homophobie anti-discrimatn chary said his parents would ask mourners to brg LGBTQ signs said there would be a solemn march anised Lus's memory the g weeks.

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REARCHERS FD DISPARI SUICI RISK AMONG LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL ADULTS

Clayton, MD1AbstractDpe strong ditns of elevated risk of suicidal behavr lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people, limed attentn has been given to rearch, terventns or suici preventn programs targetg the populatns.

Keywords: LGBT, risk factors, suici, suici attempts, suici preventnRelatively ltle attentn has been given to the problem of suicidal behavr lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) populatns, spe reports of elevated risk for over four s. Surgeon General, 2001) and the Instute of Medice's Rcg Suici: A Natnal Imperative (Goldsmh, Pellmar, Kleman, & Bunney, 2002) fed gay and bisexual youth as a risk populatn but provid ltle rmatn about ntributg factors and did not addrs whether targeted terventns, preventn strategi or public health polici are need to rce suici risk this November 2007, the Amerin Foundatn for Suici Preventn partnership wh the Suici Preventn Rource Center and the Gay and Lbian Medil Associatn nvened a nference to addrs the need for better unrstandg of suicidal behavr and suici risk LGBT populatns.

Rearchers have tend to fe sexual orientatn by one or another of the dimensns, most often g as the fg crern eher self-intifitn as gay/lbian, bisexual or heterosexual, or the genr of one's sexual partners (same sex, both same and oppose sex, or oppose sex). Studi g reprentative school-based sampl have found that about 3% of stunts gras 9–12 intify themselv as gay, lbian, or bisexual (Garofalo, Wolf, Ksel, Paley, & DuRant, 1998; Garofalo, Wolf, Wissow, Woods, & Goodman, 1999). More recent studi of adults have generally nfirmed the figur and have nsistently shown that more rponnts dite same-sex sexual behavr, and pecially same-sex attractn, than intify themselv as gay or lbian (Black, Gat, Sanrs, & Taylor, 2000; Persen & Kristiansen, 2008; Sell, 1997; Wells, McGee, & Betrais, 2010).

One recent adolcent study that rporated multiple measur of sexual orientatn found suicidal behavr to be signifintly higher youth who intified as gay, lbian or bisexual, pared to those who intified as heterosexual (Zhao, Montoro, Igartua, & Thombs, 2010).

Adults that clud multiple qutns related to sexual orientatn (Bostwick, Boyd, Hugh, & McCabe, 2010) showed that rat of mood and anxiety disorrs, key risk factors for suicidal behavr, were more strongly lked to gay, lbian or bisexual inty than to sexual behavr or attractn, particularly ntrast to sexual orientatn, genr inty refers to a person's ternal sense of beg mascule, feme, or androgyno. Although precise numbers are lackg, one survey of 515 self-intified transgenr persons found that 31% of male-to-female rponnts and 65% of female-to-male rponnts intified as gay, lbian, or bisexual (Clements-Nolle, Marx, Guzman, & Katz, 2001) this article, we foc first on summarizg the accumulated rearch lerature on suicidal behavr and suici risk lbian, gay, and bisexual people.