Policy and Health Justice: A Conceptual Model Relating the Legislative Climate to the Suicide Disparity Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth.

The suicide disparity among transgender and gender diverse (TGD) youth in the United States is occurring in a legislative climate with an unprecedented increase in anti-trans bills, yet limited restrictive firearm laws. The Policy and Health Justice: Collective Resilience/Resistance Against Trans (youth) Exclusion and Suicide model, based on Wesp et al.'s Intersectionality Research for Transgender Health Justice framework, proposes a pathway for how anti-trans bills and firearm laws contribute to TGD youth suicide through structures of domination, institutional systems, and socio-structural processes. The framework suggests targets for resilience and resistance to restructure the flow of power within systems to ameliorate the TGD youth suicide disparity.