# Study: Calling transgender youth by their name reduces suicide risk by as much as 65%

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 10, 2019, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/study-calling-transgender-youth-by-their-name-reduces-suicide-risk-by-as-much-as-65/827529 "2019-01-10T14:03:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2019, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/study-calling-transgender-youth-by-their-name-reduces-suicide-risk-by-as-much-as-65/827529/8 "2019-01-11T00:11:10Z")

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Canadian Professor Jordan Peterson has gained notoriety by refusing to conform to a Canadian bill/law legally compelling the populace to address the trans-gendered/gender-fluid by their preferred pronouns.

Peterson will not abide by a law that compels speech…

…perhaps if he was presented with the OPs life-or-death statistics, he would change his mind.

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