Half of all states, including Texas, have passed some kind of law impacting transgender youth, from outlawing minors from accessing gender-affirming health care to banning transgender athletes from participating in school sports. Now, a first-of-its-kind study from the Trevor Project, a national LGBTQ youth suicide-prevention organization, says those laws increase suicide attempts among transgender and gender-nonconforming teenagers. The peer-reviewed study, published this week in Nature Human Behavior, surveyed more than 61,000 transgender and gender nonconforming youth aged 13-17 and 13-24 across the United States and Puerto Rico and tracked self-reported suicide attempts. From 2018 to 2022, 19 state legislatures, including Texas, passed 48 laws impacting transgender youth. The study found a causal link between the passage of anti-trans laws in a state and a 72 percent increase in past-year suicide attempts.