Affirming home environments, family and peer support, access to gender-affirming resources, and things that cultivate gender euphoria are important protective factors for LGBTQ+ youth, even as many risk factors are rising, per a new report from an ongoing Trevor Project study of nearly 1,700 LGBTQ+ youth.
Again, a school shooting. The horror is unfathomable, and as a parent, I feel it in my core. Here are some resources to take action and, if needed, to help us speak with our children about such tragedies.
More than a third of LGBTQ+ youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year, per a new report from The Trevor Project, which attributed their high suicide risk to mistreatment and stigmatization. It also identified protective factors, including accepting communities and spaces and access to gender-affirming clothing and care.
The first picture book featuring someone with HIV or AIDS came out in 1989. It was followed by many other picture and middle grade books in the decades since, including these LGBTQ-inclusive titles. On World AIDS Day and beyond, may they offer insight into both history and a disease still with us.
Put another one in the win column. Michigan’s State Board of Education yesterday approved new state health education standards that include LGBTQ relationships and gender identity in the sex education curriculum. The standards are guidelines, not requirements, but send an important message of inclusion.
SNAP benefits look set to run out on November 1, with nearly 42 million Americans losing access. They include 2.1 million LGBTQ adults, nearly half of whom have at least one child under 18 in their home. Here’s how to help those in need—and where to find help if you need it.
Today is Spirit Day, GLAAD’s annual event to show support for LGBTQ youth and speak out against bullying—both personal bullying and the sweeping bullying of anti-LGBTQ laws and rhetoric. The need is greater than ever.
Once again, another school shooting has claimed the lives of children and harmed even more. Once again, we must redouble our efforts for stricter gun control laws, and once again, we parents must be prepared to speak with our children about school shootings. Here are some resources for doing so.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday to uphold Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming health care for transgender youth. It’s an awful outcome that reveals the hypocrisy of conservatives’ talk about “parental rights”—but trans rights advocates are vowing to keep fighting.
The defense funding bill passed yesterday by the U.S. Senate includes a provision that would severely restrict service members with transgender children from providing them with all care that may be deemed medically necessary. It is now up to President Biden to decide whether to sign it.
