SUMMARY
Researchers wanted to find out what factors were associated with LGBT young people's experience of suicidal feelings and self-harm. They interviewed 29 young people online and face-to-face. They also analysed data from 789 online questionnaires completed by 13- to 25-year-olds living in England and identifying as LGBT who had experience of suicidal feelings and/or self-harm.
Most respondents were older than 16 with 41.4 per cent between the ages of 17 and 19, and 51.7 per cent aged 20 to 25. A fifth - 20.7 per cent - were lesbian while 31 per cent were gay. Another fifth - 20.7 per cent - identified as pansexual or queer, 13.8 per cent as bisexual, and 13.8 per cent "other". When it came to gender identity, 37.9 per cent were female, 20.7 per cent male, 6.9 per cent were trans female, 17.2 per cent trans male and 17.2 per cent described themselves as "other".
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