title: Suicide and Suicidal Behavior among Transgender Persons.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Suicide rate and suicidal tendencies among transgender persons are considerably high compared to general population. Hence, this review is an attempt to understand the issues around the suicide and suicidal behavior among transgender persons.
  
  
  METHODS
  The literature search conducted using three sources, i.e., electronic databases (PubMed, ProQuest, Google Scholar, PsycInfo), manual search (library catalog), and gray literature (consultation with experts).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The suicide attempt rate among transgender persons ranges from 32% to 50% across the countries. Gender-based victimization, discrimination, bullying, violence, being rejected by the family, friends, and community; harassment by intimate partner, family members, police and public; discrimination and ill treatment at health-care system are the major risk factors that influence the suicidal behavior among transgender persons.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In spite of facing a number of hardships in their day-to-day life, the transgender community holds a number of resiliency factors. Further, this community needs to be supported to strengthen their resiliency factors and draw culturally sensitive and transgender-inclusive suicide prevention strategies and increase protective factors to tackle this high rate of suicidality.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatric Social Work, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: H G
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Virupaksha
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatric Social Work, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Daliboyina
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Muralidhar
authors.affiliation: Department of Mental Health Education, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Jayashree
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ramakrishna
keywords: Suicidal behavior; suicide; transgender persons