Through s Rponse for Teens, JCFS Chigo provis rmatn, tn, support and more for LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and/or qutng) youth, young adults and their fai and alli. Rponse for Teens helps te parents who might be havg difficulty wh a child’s g out procs, or jt wants to meet others parents who have experienced what you’re gog through and n offer first-hand advice.
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* gay youth counseling *
Although a person’s sexual or romantic orientatn or genr inty may not be a source of distrs, people who intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, qutng, asexual, or any other orientatn or genr inty may fd that the social stigma of livg as a mory is a source of strs or anxiety. The current acronym reprents those who are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer and qutng, tersex, and asexual.
Acrdg to a 2007 survey, stunts who intified as lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr were almost ten tim as likely to have experienced bullyg and victimizatn at school and more than twice as likely to have nsired suici as their heterosexual, non-transgenr classmat wh the prev year. Early edns of the Diagnostic and Statistil Manual (DSM) intified homosexualy as a mental disorr, until clil rearch monstrated sexual or romantic attractn to someone of the same genr is a normal, healthy, posive form of human sexualy.