John Yang:
LGBT youth describing the challenges they're facing and their hopes. Dr. Jack Turban is one of the practitioners who listens closely to voices like that. He's assistant professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco.
Among the surveyed population, suicide ideation, or thinking about suicide, was twice as high as the general high school population. Why is that?
Dr. Jack Turban, Assistant Professor, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: It seems that the greatest driver of those mental health disparities come from stigma. These kids are constantly being told that who they are is wrong or that they're less than for being LGBT, and those things take a dramatic mental health toll over time.
On top of that, a lot of these trans kids are dealing with physical gender dysphoria, which is something that we have effective treatments for but have been harder and harder to access.
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