Tennessee teen's suicide highlights dangers of anti-LGBTQ bullying
The statistics about LGBTQ suicides and suicide attempts are stark. This June, The Trevor Project found that up to 2 million LGBTQ youth contemplate suicide every year in what the group called a “conservative estimate.” A 2019 study found that a quarter of all young adolescent suicides — kids ages 12 to 14 — may be LGBTQ youth. And roughly 50 percent of trans boys, 42 percent of nonbinary kids and 30 percent of trans girls have attempted suicide at least once, according to a 2018 study.
I am adding this to the map as a #phsyco pain because this death was a result of people in this child's social life putting him outside of the circle and bullying him.
