There is no doubt that the suicide rate among trans people is higher than that of non-transgender people, but it isn't clear why.

• There seems to be no difference in suicide attempts between countries that are more accepting of trans people, and those that are less accepting.
• However there does seem to be some difference between those people who have strong family support and those who don't.
• Many, possibly a large majority, of trans people also suffer from other mental illnesses, which may contribute to the suicide rate.
• There is little information as to whether trans people with sexual dysphoria commit suicide more or less than autogynephiles.
• There is no good quality data showing that transition, or "gender affirming care", reduces suicide.
• Although there are lots of bad quality studies that claim to show this.

Most of the studies and data involving trans people predate the sudden explosion in trans rates from about 2016, so we don't know whether the post-2016 trans population has the same behaviour as the pre-2016 population. How big a role does social contagion play? How about the role of the medical profession in encouraging, if not pushing, teens to transition? Are there more autogynophiles transitioning now? Have the number of detransitioners gone up? (Anecdotally, the answer to the last two are both "Hell yeah!")

Historically, most transsexuals were either dysphoric gay males, about 90% or more who would grow out of it and become well-adjusted gay men, or autogynophiles. Today the number of female to male transsexuals seems to have increased greatly. While social media is full of stories about heterosexual men cosplaying as women and demanding access to women's spaces, the sudden increase in teen girls transitioning is also a great concern.

And let's not forget the number of opportunistic straight male sex offenders who suddenly discover they are trans the instant the handcuffs go on, and stop taking hormones once they are in a women's prison.