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  Transmasculine Data Spreadsheet- Name Age Location Year Month Age Bracket Kauê Vestemberg 22 Brazil 2022 January Twenties Gael Pandinho 19 Brazil 2022 January Teens Name Unknown 12 UK 2022 February Preteens Adrien Baptiste Luckas France 2022 March Unknown Milo Winslow 30 USA 2022 March Thirties Paulo Vaz 36 Brazil 2022 March Thirties Kenna Leigh Gillock 26 USA 2022 April Twenties Asher Garcia 14 USA 2022 April Teens Name Unknown 15 France 2022 May Teens Sasha 15 Italy 2022 June Teens Nicolas 25 France 2021 February Twenties Lucca Gomes 23 Brazil 2021 February Twenties Nicolas 15 Argentina 2021 March Teens Name Unknown 15 Australia 2021 March Teens Haven Bailey 25 USA 2021 May Twenties Santiago Cancinos 14 Argentina 2017 May Teens Tristan Frémont 19 France 2021 July Teens Samuel Boutry 20 France 2021 September Twenties Tal Piterbraut-Merx 29 France 2021 October Twenties Murilo Gonçalves Brazil 2020 January Unknown Alex McCray 22 USA 2020 January Twenties Lucas 21 Spain 2020 Januar...

  Essay on Transmasculine Suicides: Faces and Names Began on the 14th of September 2021 Cw: Suicide I’m a transgender man who has struggled with both mental health and suicidality in my past. I’m several years free of life-ending thoughts, but I know for a lot of my trans brothers, things aren’t quite so easy to escape.  I’m lucky enough to have survived. I’m lucky enough to have not gone through with it. But there are thousands of u out there (or were out there) who aren’t. This essay is for them. Dually to remember their lives and to ensure that more people know, so this epidemic of suicidality can become a thing of the past. Equal measure and dignity is not being afforded to the transmasculine community and our dead who have passed away as a result of suicide.  I recognise my own story in the lives of some of these men listed in this essay. I recognise their struggles with substances, their struggles in education, their struggles in work and in housing. In them I reco...