@article{ref1,
title="Anti-transgender rights legislation and internet searches pertaining to depression and suicide",
journal="PLoS one",
year="2022",
author="Cunningham, George B. and Watanabe, Nicholas M. and Buzuvis, Erin",
volume="17",
number="12",
pages="e0279420-e0279420",
abstract="The purpose of this study was to examine whether anti-transgender rights legislation among state legislators is associated with increased suicide- and depression-related Internet searches. Employing a quasi-experimental non-equivalent control group design, we focused on bills that were introduced to state legislatures from July 2019 to July 2020. As our panel is constructed of 51 states/territories over a 52-week time frame, our final dataset is composed of 2,652 observations. <br><br>RESULTS showed that states' passing of anti-transgender rights bills were linked with suicide- and depression-related Internet searches. Second, introducing or debating the bills did not have an association with Internet searches. Third, the defeat of anti-transgender bills was linked with fewer depression-related searches. Finally, the LGBT context in the state affected the results: anti-transgender legislation had a particularly strong association with suicide-related Internet searches when the state had a high LGBT population density.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1932-6203",
doi="10.1371/journal.pone.0279420",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279420"
}