World Suicide Prevention Day: LGBTQ+ Groups Raise Awareness
The groups point to the issues that escalate mental health concerns for LGBTQ+ people, especially queer youth.
SEPTEMBER 10, 2023
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The groups point to the issues that escalate mental health concerns for LGBTQ+ people, especially queer youth.
The incoming president said executive orders will recognize only two genders, bar gender-affirming care for minors, and even prohibit transgender people from public schools.
"You may win this today, but you're going to lose," out Missouri state Rep. Ian Mackey told his Republican colleagues.
Sponsors of the bill were able to get 10 GOP lawmakers in the House and five in the Senate who had previously voted against the ban to vote to override the veto.
The state now bans funded travel to 17 states with anti-LGBTQ laws.
The vehicles displayed signs reading "trans lives are precious."
The bill, which would keep trans girls out of girls' school sports, appeared to be dead in committee last week.
“The only child that was harmed in this entire investigation was my own child,” Jessica Norton said of her daughter's ban from playing girls' volleyball — a sport her daughter had played for years.
The group most likely to report hearing anti-LGBTQ + language were students who play sports — particularly straight, cisgender boys.
Lawmakers are considering bills to ban gender-affirming care for youth and bar trans girls and women from female school sports teams.
The Bridesmaids director pledged $300,000 to The Trevor Project, Trans Lifeline, and It Gets Better.
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (pictured) signed trans-exclusionary sports legislation, as did Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt. Ducey also OK'd health care restrictions.
The study also found that almost 150,000 trans youth live in states that protect transgender rights.
Gov. Spencer Cox, who also opposed such legislation last year, promises to veto the last-minute attempt.
On Monday, former President Donald Trump endorsed Mark Burns for South Carolina's Third Congressional District. The pastor has previously called for the execution of LGBTQ "indoctrinators."
Only two justices dissented.
Trans youth and their families turned out in protest, with some as young as 10 speaking out.
Over 400 human rights organizations had asked the Republican-controlled chamber to reject the bill, which "does not address the longstanding barriers all girls and women have faced in their pursuit of athletics."
Ninety percent of LGBTQ+ youth said their well-being has been negatively impacted by recent politics, according to a new survey from The Trevor Project.
Ninety-three percent of transgender youth ages 13 to 17 — approximately 280,300 children — live in states that have considered or enacted laws restricting their rights.
A lot of states are passing laws that target the LGBTQ+ community — but these 15 are the absolute worst.