From 2010 to 2020, four patients were known or suspected to have died by suicide, out of about 15,000 patients (including those on the waiting list)

Two of these patients were on the waiting list, while two were receiving treatment at the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDs) at the Tavistock.

This gives a suicide rate of 0.03%.¹ This is in keeping with the suicide rate for youths with other mental health difficulties.

1. Biggs, M. (2022) Suicide by Clinic-Referred Transgender Adolescents in the United Kingdom. Arch Sex Behav 51, 685–690. [Link] ↩︎