Posted on 02/09/2022 11:54:18 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
More than 1 in 4 LGBTQ youth have experienced homelessness or housing instability at some point in their lives, a new report from The Trevor Project shows, including nearly half of Native/Indigenous LGBTQ youth and nearly 40 percent of transgender and nonbinary youth.
Thirty-five percent of LGBTQ youth who are homeless and 28 percent who have experienced housing instability also reported a suicide attempt in the last year, compared to 10 percent of LGBTQ youth who are not housing insecure. Homeless LGBTQ youth are also two to four times more likely to report depression, anxiety, self-harm, suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts.
It came as no surprise to the researchers that LGBTQ youth of color and trans and nonbinary youth are disproportionately affected by homelessness and mental health issues.
“When you start adding homophobia, plus racism or transphobia, plus anti-Indigenous racism,” DeChants said, “then we again start to see that young people who are experiencing multiple forms of marginalization and oppression — those are the folks who tend to be pushed out of housing supports and experiencing homelessness.”
Researchers note that the passage of LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections and LGBTQ competent housing programs can help close the gaps in care.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Faggots and trannies have worse suicide, drugs, and homelessness. Not a new thing or unknown either.
A bit macabre, but well played sir!
The “LGBTQ” youth were already sick in the head before they went out into the street.
But the people who blame normal people are the ones who are sick beyond any possible recovery.
The official, but fake, narrative is that these kids are “kicked out” of their homes by “homophobic parents,” when the truth is that they almost all RUN AWAY because they don’t want to abide by the reasonable rules of the home.
I guess you haven’t heard. Math is racist. LOL
Isn’t the proper term LGBTQa+ now?
They also beat the c@rp out of each other.
Whenever you see the "beat-up" stories blaming straight society, strongly suspect their "lover" of doing the deed and you'll be right 99.9% of the time.
This story is a prime example of the tail wagging the dog.
Yup.
and I guess the LGBT etc etc etc part has nothing to do with the mental state... lmao these people are bass ackwards!!
Homosexuality should have a warning label: homosexuality may be hazardous to your physical, mental, and spiritual health.
“..poor mental health among LGBTQ youth…”
This makes perfect sense when you consider that LGBTQ is a mental illness.
Mentally healthy people identify with their biological sex, and are naturally attracted to the opposite sex.
Mentally ill people have trouble accepting all sorts of realities - not just their sexual identities.
Some think they are famous people from the past.
Others believe they have multiple personalities.
Many think they are being experimented on by aliens.
They suffer from all kinds of delusions.
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that many mentally ill people believe they are trapped in the wrong biological body.
Although with political correctness so strong in our culture, we aren’t allowed to say all these “LGBT” matters are any sort of mental or emotional health issue.
We ARE allowed to say that “LGBT” can have issues because the large society is homophobic and transphobic, but we aren’t allowed to say that the underlying situation of such people is any sort of issue.
These “researchers” are confused about what is the cause and what is the effect. For political reasons, they are unable to accept the premise that the population they are describing are dysfunctional and maladaptive, and unsuited to manage their lives as a result. Homelessness is the outcome variable. All the rest is causative, or at least fall in the category of risk factors.
Long long ago, wanting to mutilate your body would have been an automatic notice that you had mental health problems. Now, it’s a legitimate choice and is completely separate from “mental health issues.”
I still think that when the government got involved in modifying our culture things started going south for mental health. The government took religion out of everything, and religion was, for many, the central pillar holding up their lives. Knock that out and what happens to the people who depended on it? Now, there ARE people who don’t need religion to lead happy, fulfilling lives. But if the people who do have been taught religion is bad, what do they replace it with? Drugs and alcohol are means to anesthetize how badly you feel. They’ve called religion “the opiate of the masses.” Well, it was drug-free and it made people feel happy and fulfilled. Pot, meth and alcohol are poor substitutes and THEY lead to homelessness.
Cart before Horse
They also beat the c@rp out of each other.
= = =
But I thought they all ‘loved’ each other, with the love that the hetero, white, supremecists, ... can’t.
More than 4 in 4 of the LGBT* folks are mentally ill.
*Includes their family members who encouraged or ushered their descent into the abyss of insanity.
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