seriously contemplated killing themselves in 2020. Fifty-two percent of all transgender and nonbinary young people in the U.S. In prepared remarks shared exclusively with NPR, she writes: 'Trans youth in particular are being hounded in public and driven to deaths of despair at an alarming rate. assistant secretary for health, will make a speech in Fort Worth at the Out For Health Conference at Texas Christian University. history will give a speech in Texas Saturday, urging physicians-in-training to fight political attacks against young trans people and their families.Īdm. The highest ranking transgender official in U.S. assistant secretary for health, says, 'The language of medicine and science is being used to drive people to suicide.' Political attacks against trans young people are on the rise across the country.
