{"id":4186,"date":"2025-03-19T14:38:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T18:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diamondyao.com\/?p=4186"},"modified":"2025-05-13T15:11:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T19:11:55","slug":"anti-trans-laws-linked-to-suicide-and-depression-internet-searches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diamondyao.com\/fr\/2025\/03\/19\/anti-trans-laws-linked-to-suicide-and-depression-internet-searches\/","title":{"rendered":"The passing of transphobic laws increased internet searches for \u2018suicide\u2019 and \u2018depression,\u2019 study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-layout-grid alignfull column1-desktop-grid__span-8 column1-desktop-grid__start-3 column1-desktop-grid__row-1 column1-tablet-grid__span-4 column1-tablet-grid__row-1 column1-mobile-grid__span-4 column1-mobile-grid__row-1\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-layout-grid-column wp-block-jetpack-layout-grid__padding-none\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">As more anti-trans bills are being passed, the rate of internet searches for &#8220;suicide&#8221; and &#8220;depression&#8221; increased by 13-17%. It was found that when anti-trans bills were defeated, these search terms significantly decreased. Research by Dr. George Cunningham and his team found that areas with higher density LGBTQ2S+ populations had a strong correlation between anti-trans bills being passed and internet searches for &#8220;suicide&#8221;. In 2021, the Trevor Project reported receiving nearly 4,000 crisis contacts from trans and non-binary youth in Texas related to stress and suicidal thoughts due to anti-trans legislation. A study published in January 2023 found that trans and non-binary youths who receive gender-affirming hormone therapy are happier after the treatment. Nearly two-thirds of the participants with severe depression reported mild or moderate depression at the end of the study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/culture\/transphobic-laws-internet-searches-suicide-depression-244818\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/xtramagazine.com\/culture\/transphobic-laws-internet-searches-suicide-depression-244818\">This article<\/a> is published in Xtra Magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As more anti-trans bills are being passed, the rate of internet searches for &#8220;suicide&#8221; and &#8220;depression&#8221; increased by 13-17%. It was found that when anti-trans bills were defeated, these search terms significantly decreased. Research by Dr. George Cunningham and his team found that areas with higher density LGBTQ2S+ populations had a strong correlation between anti-trans&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":191496667,"featured_media":4187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-justice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/diamondyao.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/anti-trans-article.jpg?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":null,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pci1uA-15w","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diamondyao.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diamondyao.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diamondyao.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diamondyao.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191496667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diamondyao.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/diamondyao.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4189,"href":"https:\/\/diamondyao.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions\/4189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diamondyao.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diamondyao.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diamondyao.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diamondyao.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}