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AS 'DON'T SAY GAY' AND SIAR BILLS TAKE HOLD, LGBTQ YOUTHS FEEL THEY'RE 'GETTG CSHED'
Two gay former NFL players talk about the importance of the league’s support, as most fans seem to unrstand the gture. * lgbt reaction *
O’Callaghan was quick to pot out that, while ’s important to ntue to pot to rners of homophobic nonsense sports, this don’t mean a gay NFL player would be rejected by the league, s teams or most fans. Earlier this year, Florida passed a so-lled "Don't Say Gay" law, rtrictg discsns of sexual orientatn and genr inty elementary LGBTQ youth many stat are facg siar legislatn targetg classroom discsn of LGBTQ topics and muny spac.
For lbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgenr people, realizg their sexual orientatn or genr inty and sharg that rmatn wh fay * lgbt reaction *
"Throughout the untry, stunts are starg down the barrel of bills targetg discsns of sexualy, genr inty and LGBTQ-related topics classrooms, ma more visible by the recent passage of the so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill Florida. It echo a prevly overturned law, dubbed by opponents as "no promo homo, " that prohibed sexual tn public schools that promoted a "homosexual liftyle. LIFELINE CHANGES:LGBTQ advot hope for 'culturally petent' trag wh suici preventn lifele's shift to 988Javier Gomez, 18, is one of many stunts who anized walkouts at schools across Florida prott of the origal "Don't Say Gay" bill.
Gomez, who is gay, said experiencg homophobia and discrimatn as well as workg as an activist have ed him to mature faster than the average senr high school stunt.
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"'There's not a lot you n do, pecially as a kid' An Oh bill, HB 616, is clost language to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn, and clus a ban on stctnal materials and curriculum “on sexual orientatn or genr inty, ” addn to bans on stctn around cril race theory, which is not tght K-12 schools, and stunt Abby Doench, 17, said she fears for younger stunts at her high school who may lack the support that she received when she me out as gay. '"Bullyg of transgenr kids 'has gone through the roof' As more and more legislatn gas attentn the stat, stunts also said they've experienced or wnsed bullyg at their schools targeted at LGBTQ Waln, a 17-year-old high school senr Florida, said he liv an area that's "liberal and mocratic" but that he experienc homophobia at school every day.
For lbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgenr people, realizg their sexual orientatn or genr inty and sharg that rmatn wh fay and iends is often a gradual procs that n unfold over a seri of years. Lbians and gay men are more likely than bisexuals to have told at least one close iend about their sexual orientatn (96% of gay men and 94% of lbians, pared wh 79% of bisexuals).
And they are much more likely to say that most of the people who are important to them know about this aspect of their life: 77% of gay men and 71% of lbians say all or most people know, pared wh 28% of bisexuals.
LGBTIQ+ health refers to the physil, mental, and emotnal well-beg of people who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, tersex or queer (LGBTIQ+). The pl sign reprents the vast diversy of people terms of sexual orientatn, genr inty, exprsn and sex characteristics (SOGIESC). The LGBTIQ+ acronym is dynamic and n vary pendg on the regn or untry, highlightg the multu of LGBTIQ+ muni across cultur. While regnizg the diversy of LGBTIQ+ people, evince suggts some mon experienc affectg their health and well-beg. They are ls likely to accs health servic and engage wh healthre workers due to stigma and discrimatn, rultg adverse physil and mental health out. They n also experience human rights vlatns cludg vlence, torture, crimalizatn, voluntary medil procr and discrimatn. In addn, they n face nial of re, discrimatory attus and appropriate pathologizg healthre settgs based on their SOGIESC. WHO's support to untri is found on the fundamental human rights prciple that all persons should have accs to health servic whout discrimatn. The adoptn of the 2030 Agenda for Staable Development and s pledge to “leave no one behd”, based on the normative amework of ternatnal human rights law, has rerced the need to unrstand and improve the health and well-beg of LGBTIQ+ people. WHO velops guil, provis technil support and nducts rearch to help untri velop and strengthen clive health systems and polici for the health and well-beg of all people, regardls of SOGIESC. * lgbt reaction *
Among all LGBT adults, those wh a llege gree are more likely than those who have not graduated om llege to say all or most of the important people their life know they are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr (64% vs.