Transgender Lives are Precious: National Suicide Prevention Week
Suicide sadly remains all too prevalent in the transgender community. Unremitting discrimination takes its toll and transgender people pay the price for the prejudice of others. Sometimes, transgender people turn to suicide when they can’t find work, housing or other practical necessities of life. In the survey that NCTE conducted with The Task Force, 41% of those who responded reported having attempted suicide at some point in their lives; this compares with 1.6% of the general population. That’s a rate 25 times that of the rest of the United States.
NCTE has created a new resource of information about transgender people and suicide, including results from our survey, and resources to help prevent self-harm: Preventing Transgender Suicide. Transgender lives are worth living.
If you are in crisis, please reach out. Here are some numbers to call:
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender National Hotline, 1-888-THE-GLNH (1-888-843-4564); Monday to Friday, 4 p.m. to midnight (Eastern); Saturday, noon – 5 p.m. (Eastern)
- The Trevor Project, 1-866-488-7386 (for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth)
- National Suicide Prevention Helpline: 1-800-273-TALK
Red Nacional de Prevención del Suicidio: 1-888-628-9454
For Hearing and Speech Impaired with TTY Equipment: TTY: 1-800-799-4TTY (4889)
As part of NCTE’s efforts, we created two avatars on the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Gallery that specifically talk to transgender people.
National Center for Transgender Equality's Blog 
Please go here for my story of my own dark days and recovery. Feel free to use at will if you find it useful.
http://tiresiasredux.blogspot.com/2009/11/lifeday.html
Hugs,
S.
I tried to go to this link to read your story but the blog is only open to invited readers
Thanks for the update. When I transitioned 8 or 9 years ago we heard some very high numbers for trans suicides, but nothing like this. I can tell you from my own personal experience right now, dealing with not having a job or home, is that much worse when you are trans. And I was such a “success” before I decided to live as who I really am. Still, I have no regrets. I’m a much better person now than I was then. It’s the rest of the world we need to change.
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Reblogged this on Zander's Blog and commented:
Because too many contemplate and complete suicide in our community.
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We all need to support each other more. Please.
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[…] In addition to painting a wildly inaccurate picture of how medically transitioning actually generally positively impacts the trans people who do so, this focus created a narrative which was entirely erasing to the many trans people who experience no desire to undergo any medical treatments as part of their transition, and worst of all, it carried a clear message to trans children, that they are truly monsters. This in a society which already blames us for the way we were born, and forces most to of us repress our identities so violently that we experience a 41 percent suicide attempt rate compared with the 1.6 percent of the general population as reported by NCTE and The Task Force. […]