Half of trans male teens have attempted suicide, here's why :(

More than half (51 percent) of trans male teenagers have attempted suicide in the past year, according to new research.

The new study by researchers at the University of Arizona also found that more than four in 10 (42 percent) of non-binary adolescents and 30 percent of trans female teens had attempted suicide.

Suicide is the second leading cause of death among teenagers and young adults aged between 10 and 34 in the US

The latest data revealed that transgender and non-binary teens—aged between 11 and 19—are at a significantly greater risk of attempting suicide than their peers who are cisgender, meaning their gender identity is the same as the sex they were assigned at birth.

Nearly two in 10 (18 percent) of cis female teens and 10 percent of cis male adolescents had tried to end their lives, according to the study.

Russ Toomey, an associate professor at the University of Arizona, who led the research, based his findings on an analysis of data from the Profiles of Student Life: Attitudes and Behaviors survey—a national survey of 120,617 adolescents in the US.

The survey, carried out between 2012 and 2015, included data from 202 transgender teenagers, 70 percent of which were trans male adolescents.