The 2019 Counting Ourselves Aotearoa New Zealand trans and non-binary health survey of more than 1,000 people found this: more than one in six, or 17 percent, reported that they had experienced conversion therapy—17 percent—and the same proportion said that a professional had tried to stop them from being trans or non-binary. A further 12 percent were not sure if this had happened to them. They questioned it. Participants reported a much higher rate of high or very high psychological distress than the rest of the population, and very high rates of suicidal thoughts and attempts of suicide. 