The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed a first-of-its-kind study Tuesday showing that roughly 3.3 percent of high school students said they were transgender in 2023.
Surveyors for the CDC collected data from 20,103 students from public and private high schools for the 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey. They found transgender teenagers are more likely to report bullying — 40.1 percent of transgender respondents said they were bullied at school compared to female students at 20.3 percent and males at 14.8 percent. Transgender students were also more likely to report “poor mental health in the past 30 days” as well as “feelings of persistent sadness or hopelessness over the last 12 months.”
Over half of the transgender students reported considering suicide in the past year, according to the survey. Approximately one in four of the surveyed transgender students claimed they attempted suicide in the past year. Of the males, 12.1 percent said they had considered suicide in that length of time and 5.3 percent said they attempted it. Among females, 24 percent said they considered the act and 11% claimed to have attempted it. (RELATED: College Volleyball Player Claims School Deceived Her Into Living With Transgender Roommate)
Additionally, of the students surveyed, over one in four transgender students said they missed school because they felt unsafe in the last 30 days compared to 8.5 percent male students and 14.9 percent of females.
This survey is the first federally organized national survey including teens who said they were transgender or uncertain, according to The New York Times. The majority of the students surveyed reported to have been born female, including 64.2 percent of transgender students and 64.3 percent of “questioning” students, according to the survey.
“We have 5 percent of young people in the country who, because of the way they identify around their gender, are stigmatized, bullied, made to fell unsafe, feel disconnected at school and consequently have poorer mental health and higher risk for suicide than their cisgender peers,” Kathleen Ethier, the CDC adolescent and school health division’s director, told The New York Times. (RELATED: Dem Governor Unilaterally Makes It Illegal To Talk Kids Out Of Sex Changes)
Chloe Cole began transitioning as a minor. This transition was carried out with puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and a double mastectomy from ages 13 to 17, according to a lawsuit filed on her behalf in 2023.
Cole, an advocate for the political advocacy group, Do No Harm, is now a detransitioner and advocates for the end of “childhood transition.”
This article was originally published at dailycaller.com
