Study finds an epidemic of suicide among LGBTQ youth. Most blame "recent politics."
The Trevor Project’s National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health — the largest survey of LGBTQ youth mental health ever conducted with over 34,000 respondents ages 13 to 24 from across the United States — showed there’s a mental health epidemic among LGBTQ youth with politics playing a huge role.
Among the survey’s results from suicidal respondents, 76% said recent politics impacted their mental health or sense of self and only 47% had received psychological or emotional counseling from a mental health professional. The survey also found that nearly 30% of young trans people had attempted suicide and 54% had considered suicide in the last year.
Approximately 36% of queer youth who attempted suicide had experienced physical violence beforehand, 22% had experienced some form of discrimination.
About 78% of trans and non-binary youth reported being the subject of discrimination due to their gender identity and 70% of LGBTQ youth reported discrimination due to their sexual orientation.
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Think about this the next time you hear a gay "joke". Think about this the next time someone defends homophobia because "it is a comment on the target, not "really" about gay people." Think about this when people fail to recognize GLBTQ people are actual minorities. Homophobia is real. Homophobia kills!
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