Healthy People 2030 clus objectiv foced on llectg data on lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) health issu and improvg the health of LGBT adolcents particular. Learn more about LGBT health.
Contents:
- PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BI HAVE MORE MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE E PROBLEMS, SURVEY FDS
- DIVERSY & HEALTH EQUY EDUTN: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER/QUTNG
- MENTAL HEALTH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) YOUTH
PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY, LBIAN OR BI HAVE MORE MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE E PROBLEMS, SURVEY FDS
Adults who intify as gay, lbian, or bisexual are more likely than adults who intify as straight to experience ser thoughts of suici, mental health ndns cludg major prsive episos and they are more likely to e substanc like alhol or dgs, acrdg to a new US ernment report. * is lgbt a mental illness *
A new book reveals how Dr Matt Bristow, who worked at the Tavistock Clic’s Genr Inty Development Service (Gids) for five years, raised ncerns that boys and girls who said they wanted to change sex might simply be gay.
DIVERSY & HEALTH EQUY EDUTN: LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR AND QUEER/QUTNG
Y. A natnal poll asked lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer or qutng people age 13 to 24. * is lgbt a mental illness *
He warned gay children were ‘phed down another path’, towards transng, and that there was a ‘reluctance’ om the Gids learship to engage properly wh sexualy.
MENTAL HEALTH LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR (LGBT) YOUTH
* is lgbt a mental illness *
And the doctor claimed that many heterosexual members of staff ‘jt didn’t realise’ that many genr non-nformg behavurs applied jt as much to children who grew up to be gay, lbian or bisexual as to children who would grow up to be trans. Staff at the centre even joked there would be ‘no gay people left at the rate Gids was gog’, was claimed.
Dr Bristow, who was openly gay when he joed the service, said when he raised ncerns was suggted to him that homosexual staff ‘weren’t profsnally distant enough’. Transgenrism stroys the gay argument, you know — gay people say they were “born this way, ” and while that’s been difficult to prove blogilly, at least mak some sense.