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.
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.
ources are especially critical at a time when healthcare professionals have declared a national emergency in children’s and adolescent’s mental health.
A new, free, research-based poster series for American Indian families and communities is aimed at helping parents, families, and caregivers to support LGBTQ and Two Spirit (LGBTQ2S) children and youth, reducing health risks and increasing well-being.
The American Psychological Association (APA) on Monday issued updated resolutions in support of LGBTQ parents and LGBTQ children, and opposing laws, policies, and practices that discriminate against LGBTQ people.
A new study has shown the key, damaging, role parents play in “conversion therapy” efforts to change their LGBT children’s sexual orientation, and how this exacerbates health and adjustment problems for their children even into young adulthood.
Lots of good reads (and photos!) as we swing into the end of August, including a big move by the world’s best-selling diaper manufacturer!
