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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Suicide Life Threat Behav. 2016 Feb 24;46(5):535–544. doi: 10.1111/sltb.12234

Table 1. Self-directed violence and depression between gender identity, by race/ethnicity and sexual orientation.

Suicide Prevention % (SE) Depression1 % (SE) Self-Harm1 % (SE) Suicidal Ideation1 % (SE) Suicide Attempt1 % (SE)
Racial/Ethnic Minority
 Transgender (n = 73) 32.9 (5.5) 38.5 (5.7) 38.0 (5.7) 35.2 (5.6) 29.6 (5.3)
 Cisgender (n = 30,501) 37.2 (0.3) 7.3 (0.1) 5.3 (0.1) 6.6 (0.1) 1.5 (0.0)
non-Hispanic white
 Transgender (n = 90) 43.8 (5.2) 38.6 (5.1) 27.8 (4.7) 31.1 (4.9) 10.0 (3.2)
 Cisgender (n = 77,685) 28.0 (0.2) 10.8 (.01) 5.0 (0.0) 5.8 (0.0) 0.9 (0.0)
LGBQ
 Transgender (n = 123) 43.7 (4.5) 43.6 (4.5) 41.3 (4.4) 43.8 (4.5) 25.6 (3.9)
 Cisgender (n = 7,388) 42.5 (0.6) 20.7 (0.5) 14.4 (0.4) 16.8 (0.4) 3.4 (0.2)
Heterosexual
 Transgender (n = 45) 29.5 (6.8) 18.2 (5.8) 13.3 (5.1) 6.7 (3.7) 4.4 (3.1)
 Cisgender (n = 103,025) 29.9 (0.1) 9.1 (0.0) 4.5 (0.0) 5.3 (0.0) 0.9 (0.0)