It's good to see this given study and analysis, and the recognition that many LGBTQ people are at their most vulnerable around the college age. (Often moving away from their existing support, though I recognize 'home' isn't always a welcoming place for LGBTQ youth.)

Here's hoping it leads to action on campuses to help connect students to the resources they need -- whether that's counseling, medical care, or just a supportive community.

It's not clear that it's only a societal vulnerability. Studies in highly open societies like Norway, Iceland and Finland also indicate very high suicide rates in the LGBT with transsexual individuals being the highest at risk even for that group.

This also extended to cases of coming out early, having all the support and acceptance one can get from their immediate family and the community.

My own personal opinion is that which ever genetic expression cause the gender and sexual disassociation also could lead to higher predisposition to suicide.

So, the study does not say anything about causation. It could be that depressed people become LGBTQ more often, than non-depressed.

i’m glad someone’s pointing out the detrimental psychological effects college environments have on our youth. i think Theil called it, many would be better off dropping out and joining a start-up instead.