40% of LGBTQ youth seriously considered suicide in the past year

[Green Line]

Its a cultural problem.

[Bojack Horseman]

Many straight people see gay rights as an abstract issue that doesn’t involve them. They still believe homophobic stereotypes and would be horrified and outraged if their child came out. Just because gay marriage is legal doesn’t mean that homophobia is gone too.

[NYSforKennedy2024]

The full survey is brutal.

52% of transgender youth have considered suicide v 34% of cisgender youth.

29% of LGBT youth have experienced homelessness, 10% subjected to 'conversion' 'therapy' with 58% stating at least one person had told them to 'change' their orientation.

[Farmlands]

I would be interested in knowing the statistics for this in other countries. I would guess the numbers are lower in Western Europe and higher everywhere else, except Canada, probably. Good thing there seems to be a constant growing acceptance of LGBT people, which can hopefully reduce these terrible figures.

[TDAS04]

Adults—especially homophobic parents, many religious leaders, and socially conservative politicians—should get the bulk of the blame for this sad statistic.  If a kid experiences homophobic bullying at the hands of classmates, I don’t think it’s particularly helpful when a “Christian” congressman talks about the “sanctity of marriage” or uses “religious freedom” as the “states’ rights”-esque dog whistle that the phrase has become.

If you support the use of conversion therapy on kids, you are trash.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/survey-2020/?section=Housing-Instability

If I'm reading this right, for the majority of non-trans LGB who were kicked out or runaways, it was for other reasons than their sexual orientation?

[Green Line]

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/survey-2020/?section=Housing-Instability

If I'm reading this right, for the majority of non-trans LGB who were kicked out or runaways, it was for other reasons than their sexual orientation?

Yes, you read that correctly.  Amazing how many kicked out/runaways there are 😏😏😏

[Ogre Mage]

The sad truth is I think these numbers are an improvement compared to past eras.  In the 1990s I suspect the percentage of LGBTQ youth who considered suicide was over 50%.  I was one of them.

The WWW was too primitive back then for gay youth to get a sense of the wider world or communicate with other gay youth so the sense of isolation was much greater.  Prior to the late 1990s, AIDS was a deadly threat instead of a manageable condition like now.  Anti-discrimination laws were limited or nonexistent.  No marriage equality.  If there were any gay-straight alliances in high school back then I did not hear about them. 

[PSOL]

The sad truth is I think these numbers are an improvement compared to past eras.  In the 1990s I suspect the percentage of LGBTQ youth who considered suicide was over 50%.  I was one of them.

The WWW was too primitive back then for gay youth to get a sense of the wider world or communicate with other gay youth so the sense of isolation was much greater.  Prior to the late 1990s, AIDS was a deadly threat instead of a manageable condition like now.  Anti-discrimination laws were limited or nonexistent.  No marriage equality.  If there were any gay-straight alliances in high school back then I did not hear about them. 

We need to seriously work in order for it be even feasible to strive in a world where this statistic is basically statistical noise. No one must suffer so young and with the world ahead of them, especially not over this.

[afleitch]

I think what people don't understand is that 'lol microagressions lol' is a real thing. I'm a happily married gay man, but I get probably one or two (that I notice) stares if I'm sitting or standing too close to my husband. During lockdown as households had to stay apart my 'household' was more noticeable and there were a few challenges to 'are you two together?'

So we're talking about say 1000 examples of being uncomfortable a year that I have to brush off for my own sanity.

And I'm in an 'in' LGBT group as a cis white married male.

[Dr. MB]

the kicked out/runaway numbers seem really high, wonder who exactly they polled

[Del Tachi]

Troubling statistics, but GLBT youth have always scored higher on this indicator.

I think something that could make a big difference for these kids is having more visible LGBT role models in their schools and communities; in many places that's difficult because (until recently) there weren't even basic employment protections for LGBT people.

Hopefully post-Bostock there's a lot of new, openly-LGBT school teachers, ball coaches and other mentors.