From the policy's onset through the end of 2015, Montgomery, a leader of the Mama Dragons support group for the families of gay Latter-day Saints, says she had counted 26 suicides of young LGBT Mormons in Utah — 23 males, one female and two transgender individuals — between ages 14 and 20. She tallied another six in other states — though none of the reported deaths could be specifically tied to the policy. Montgomery's statistics were shared at a recent meeting in Los Angeles of Affirmation, a support group for gay Mormons. "The number of suicides reported to Wendy Montgomery is shocking," says John Gustav-Wrathall, Affirmation's newly installed president. "I've never seen anything like it in the history of my involvement with the organization." Trouble is, the number far exceeds the suicide figures collected by the Utah Department of Health.