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SUICI AND SUICI RISK LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR POPULATNS: REVIEW AND REMENDATNS
School was overwhelmg, and watchg legislators his home state of Florida bate bills that would affect him as a gay and transgenr teen — like legislatn to ban discsn of LGBTQ+ inti classrooms — was hurtg his mental health, he said.
Nearly 50 percent of gay, lbian and bisexual high school stunts told the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn 2021 that they had serly nsired suici wh the last year, pared to 14 percent of heterosexual stunts. More than a quarter of gay, lbian and bisexual high schoolers told the CDC 2021 that they had attempted suici the last year — pared to 5 percent of heterosexual youth. Sce 2015, the agency has tracked sexual orientatn s biennial youth risk behavr survey, and watched lbian, gay, bisexual and qutng youth suffer more signifintly om poor mental health than their peers, Ethier said.
Bee spe growg awarens, the topics of mental illns and suici LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer) muni rema taboo. Stigma—along wh homophobia and transphobia—is likely what leads to this muny’s disproportnately high rat of suici.