Identity Crisis: Arkansas HB 1570 and Responsible Reporting on Suicide
Suicide is a national public health crisis. It’s also preventable, and there are things we know from decades of public research that can either increase the risk of suicide or decrease it. In the wake of a series of new bills in Arkansas meant to address the gender identity crisis in sports, medicine, and schools, trans “advocates” are foreshadowing an impending epidemic of suicide among trans-identifying youth. In doing so, they are flying in the face of all known research on preventing suicide, and quite possibly creating the very problem they claim they’ve set out to solve.