The full Trevor Project report is not yet published. The organization plans to release it this fall, so the 53% and 40% figures are preliminary and come from a preview, not a published study. The AI-use findings are also new to the organization's longitudinal series, which first reported in October 2025 on 1,689 LGBTQ+ youth ages 13 to 24 surveyed from September 2023 to March 2025. Methodology for the upcoming release has not been made public.
The preview lands alongside a growing body of research. In June 2026, RAND reported in JAMA Pediatrics that 19.2% of young people ages 12 to 21 had used AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Character.AI and Meta AI for help when feeling sad, angry, nervous or stressed, up from 13.1% a year earlier. For attorneys tracking youth mental health, AI platform liability, or consumer protection claims, the disparity between youth of color and white youth is the figure to watch once the full report is out, along with how the study defines "mental health support" and whether the data is tied to any specific platform.