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.
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I would add that a number of the homeless have been thrown out of homes due to their behavior.
“GIBLETS,” are abnormal so they practice their abomination.
I know of three gay people. Two are males and one female.
The each have good jobs/professions and pass for sane people.
However, they are open about their condition but do not flaunt it. I avoid them because I have a phobia about queers.
----Perhaps that's because LGBTQ is a mental health issue?
BINGO!
The first couple of “gay” people I knew (after the fact) were a renter in our home’s separate garage apartment and a high school band instructor. Both were murdered by “associates.”
The sob stories I've read are of people in the late teens and early to mid-twenties. Hardly "children." But that doesn't feed into the narrative.
Oh right! That must be why!
What is the percentage of LGBTQ youth who do not have a responsible biologic father in their home.
That would account for the sexual maladaptive and the homelessness.
Darwin is Alive and Well!!
I think we’re a little unclear on cause and effect.
Not only did you beat me to it, you said it far more succinctly than I would have.
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