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NOT MY FLT I WAS BORN GAY: 19-YEAR-OLD MS SUICI OVER HOMOPHOBIA
By India Today Web Dk: A 19-year-old boy mted suici Chennai after he was ridiculed for beg homosexual. It is not my flt that I was born gay, his Facebook post said. Rearchers report JAMA Paediatrics pooled data of 35 studi and found that Transgenr youth were at hight risk, nearly six tim as likely to attempt suici as heterosexual activists say that spe the Supreme Court crimalisg homosexualy 2018, members of the muny still face discrimatn.
Official statistics on nversn therapy are not available but Queerala found a 2019 survey that about 20 mental health centr were nductg nversn therapy Kerala, as same-sex relatns are taboo socially nservative parts of Indian Associatn of Clil Psychologists (IACP), a profsnal membership group, said May that “nversn practic by therapists are still rampant our untry” spe India’s crimalisatn of gay sex 2018. “I had a partner until a year ago but he abandoned me and married a woman after facg prsure om his fay, ” said a gay man who was rejected by his fay after he refed to ntue havg nversn therapy wh a Christian prit.
We aimed to evaluate the psychosocial ntext, as well as the qualy of media reportg, of suici among lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr people, queer and tersex (LGBTQI+) populatn. Those who know him n hardly picture gay rights activist Anand Chandrani as the protagonist this story. Wh much more social and faial prsure on them, is natural that homosexual youngsters are more vulnerable to suicidal thoughts and tennci, ” rmed psychiatrist Dr Sudhir Bhave.