Being a teenager is hard, but being a transgender teenager is almost impossible to live with.
In the UK, a survey carried by LGBT mental health charity Pace showed that 48.1% of trans* people under the age of 26 had tried to commit suicide.
The same tragic statistics are found in America, where the Youth Suicide Prevention Program reports more than 50% of transgender youth attempt suicide by the age of 20.
Mashable has looked at the lives of America’s transgender teens to see why those statistic are so high in an incredibly moving video, which shows teens talking to their future selves about their hopes and troubles.
