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Suicide hotline sees increase in trans teens calling as state debates anti-trans laws
Calls from Texas trans youth increased 150% from last year.
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Suicide is preventable. Learn how you can help yourself or others on World Suicide Prevention Day
“We have the opportunity to prevent suicides and save lives.”
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Carl Nassib is now the first out NFL player signed to a regular season roster
Carl Nassib will break ground later this month as the first gay person to play in a regular season NFL game.
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NFL declares “Football is gay”
“The NFL stands by the LGBTQ+ community today and every day” they said in a simple yet unprecedented message.
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Half of trans youth have contemplated suicide after a year of nonstop Republican attacks
As if that’s not alarming enough, 75 percent of respondents confirmed they had “experienced discrimination based on their sexual orientation or gender identity at least once in their lifetime.”
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Gay teen’s family sues the school where he was relentlessly bullied before he died
The Black gay teen was only 15 years old when he took his own life.
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Tennessee’s governor signs bill that bans trans youth in sports into law
This makes the Volunteer State the third this year to pass a ban on trans people in sports.
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LGBTQ youth face more stress from police brutality & COVID-19
1 in 5 LGBTQ youth have faced police harassment or mistreatment by police, compared to just 1 in 7 for non-LGBTQ youth.
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Nearly half of LGBTQ youth considered suicide in the last year. That was before the pandemic.
The Trevor Project’s second annual mental health survey reveals the scary reality that LGBTQ youth regularly face.
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The NCAA might move college sports out of Idaho because of its law banning trans athletes
The law allows schools to conduct DNA analysis, hormone level monitoring and even an inspection of a young person’s “internal and external reproductive anatomy” to figure out their gender identity.