Mental Health Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) Youth - PMC

Contents:

• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS & QUEER INTIFIED PEOPLE AND MENTAL HEALTH
• MENTAL HEALTH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) YOUTH

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANS & QUEER INTIFIED PEOPLE AND MENTAL HEALTH

Pri Season brgs together members of diverse muni who are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, Two-Spir, or those who intify wh another non-bary genr or mory sexual inty (LGBTQ2+) and alli celebratg one of Canada's greatt strengths that is diversy and cln. Much of the data this release foc on LGB Canadians (lbian, gay, bisexual), sce Statistics Canada has been llectg tailed rmatn on the muni sce 2003. Although much has been acplished sce the begng of the new lennium, cludg the legalizatn of same-sex marriage  2005, and protectg genr exprsn and inty the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Crimal Co  2017, ncerns rema, given the spike hate crim targetg LGBTQ2+ Canadians one-third of LGBTQ2+ Canadians are unr 25 years oldCombed data om the 2015 to 2018 cycl of the Canadian Communy Health Survey (CCHS) found that one-quarter of Canada's LGB populatn were gay men (255, 100), while 1  7 are gay or lbian women (150, 600).

Concerns rema terms of acceptance, mental health and well-begAcrdg to the 2018 Survey on Safety Public and Private Spac, LGB+ Canadians (lbian, gay, bisexual, and Canadians whose sexual orientatn is not heterosexual) were more likely to report beg vlently victimized their lifetime and to have experienced appropriate behavurs public and onle than non-sexual mory Canadians. Nearly 9  10 (88%) of the crim specifilly targeted the gay and lbian muny, while the remar prised cints targetg bisexual people (2%), people wh other sexual orientatns, such as asexual, pansexual or other non-heterosexual orientatns (6%), and people whose sexual orientatn was unknown (4%). Statistics Canada will also be releasg a seri of four articl g the CCHS over the urse of 2021 and early 2022 to highlight the characteristics of the lbian, gay, bisexual and heterosexual populatn on the followg them: fay and hoehold characteristics, lguistic and ethnocultural diversy, tn and labour.

At Statistics Canada, the LGBTQ2+ acronym is ed to reflect the broad spe of genr and sexual inti that exist acronym LGBTQ2+ ed this release clus lbian, gay, bisexual, or another mory sexual inty such as asexual or pansexual, as well as mory genr inty (trans and non-bary inti like genrqueer, genr fluid, pangenr or agenr). Sexual orientatn and mental healthLbian, gay and bisexual people tend to have poorer mental health than heterosexual people.

MENTAL HEALTH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) YOUTH

A new study released today Health Reports, par the mental health of gay, lbian and bisexual people wh their heterosexual unterparts Canada. Data are om the 2015 Canadian Communy Health study found that homosexual and bisexual people were more likely than heterosexual people to have been diagnosed wh a mood or anxiety disorr (19%, 40% and 11%, rpectively) or to have experienced thoughts of suici (5%, 13% and 2%, rpectively) the prev year. Gay men (67%) and bisexual men (57%) were ls likely than heterosexual men (77%) to have plete mental health, and bisexual women (38%) were ls likely to have plete mental health than heterosexual women (72%).

When the factors were taken to acunt, the associatn wh plete mental health was no longer signifintly different between gay men and heterosexual men. Inty refers to social inty, such as whether a person intifi as heterosexual, homosexual or Canadian Communy Health Survey the ncept of inty. Rponnts aged 15 and olr were asked whether they nsired themselv to be heterosexual (sexual relatns wh people of the oppose sex), homosexual—that is, lbian or gay (sexual relatns wh people of your own sex)—or bisexual (sexual relatns wh people of both sex).

Analys were nducted to pare rat of serly nsirg suici and attemptg suici the past 12 months among youth ag 13 to 18 our sample to the 2019 YRBS sample of lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) high school stunts.

Lbian, gay and bisexual dividuals are more likely to experience prsn, anxiety, suicidaly and substance abe than their heterosexual 1Note 2Note 3Note 4Note 5Note 6Note 7Note 8Note 9Note 10Note 11Note 12 Social strs experienced sexual mory populatns, such as stigma, prejudice and discrimatn, addn to ternalized feelgs of negativy and expectatns of rejectn, are thought to be part of the explanatn for the differenc risk for mental 1. Prevalence timat of sexual mory populatns and dispari plete mental health between gay, lbian and bisexual dividuals, and their heterosexual unterparts are prented. Sexual orientatn rearch has been asssed on the basis of sexual behavur, sexual attractn, or self-inty—each of the three ncepts yieldg slightly different prevalence 20Note 21Note 22Note 23 Inty refers to dividuals’ social inty, such as whether they nsir themselv to be heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual.

Sexual orientatn was asssed by askg rponnts aged 15 and olr whether they nsired themselv to be heterosexual (sexual relatns wh people of the oppose sex), homosexual, that is, lbian or gay (sexual relatns wh people of your own sex), or bisexual (sexual relatns wh people of both sex). Rponnts were classified as lbian (n=245), gay (n=334), bisexual women (n=477), bisexual men (n=224), heterosexual women (n=24, 270), and heterosexual men (n=20, 505).

A higher proportn of heterosexual men and women than gay, lbian and bisexual dividuals were married or mon-law relatnships. Bisexual women were more likely to have self-intified as Indigeno than their heterosexual unterparts, but the small sample did not allow for examg differenc Indigeno inty between gay and bisexual men and lbians, and heterosexuals. There were no signifint differenc cultural / racial background or number of chronic ndns between gay, lbian or bisexual dividuals, and heterosexuals.