LGBT+ youth are 2.5 times more likely to have made multiple suicide attempts in the last year if they have gone through ‘conversion therapy’.
That’s according to a new study by LGBT+ suicide prevention organization The Trevor Project. The American Journal of Public Health published the peer-reviewed article yesterday (8 July).
It is the first to look at the link between ‘conversion therapy’ and suicide in LGBT+ young people. Overall, LGBT+ youths who have been through ‘gay cures’ are more than twice as likely to have attempted suicide in the last year.
The research also confirmed the alarmingly high levels of young people in the US experiencing the ‘therapies’. It found 7% had gone through ‘gay cures’.