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Gay and Lesbian High School Students Report 'Heartbreaking' Levels of Violence - From Other 'Faggots'!

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The first nationwide study to ask high school students about 
their sexuality found that gay, lesbian and bisexual teenagers 
were at far greater risk for depression, bullying and many types 
of violence than their straight peers.

“I found the numbers heartbreaking,” said Dr. Jonathan Mermin, a 
senior official at the Centers for Disease Control and 
Prevention, which includes a division that administered the 
survey.

The survey documents what smaller studies have suggested for 
years, but it is significant because it is the first time the 
federal government’s biennial Youth Risk Behavior Survey, the 
gold standard of adolescent health data collection, looked at 
sexual identity. The survey found that about 8 percent of the 
high school population described themselves as gay, lesbian or 
bisexual, which would be about 1.3 million students.

These adolescents were three times more likely than straight 
students to have been raped. They skipped school far more often 
because they did not feel safe; at least a third had been 
bullied on school property. And they were twice as likely as 
heterosexual students to have been threatened or injured with a 
weapon on school property.

More than 40 percent of these students reported that they had 
seriously considered suicide, and 29 percent had made attempts 
to do so in the year before they took the survey. The percentage 
of those who used illegal drugs was many times greater than 
their heterosexual peers. While 1.3 percent of straight students 
said they had used heroin, for example, 6 percent of the gay, 
lesbian and bisexual students reported having done so.

“Nations are judged by the health and well-being of their 
children,” said Dr. Mermin, who is the director of the National 
Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention at 
the C.D.C. “Many would find these levels of physical and sexual 
violence unacceptable and something we should act on quickly.”

These comparisons have emerged because the federal survey, which 
looks at more than 100 health behaviors, included two new 
questions last year. It asked how students identified themselves 
sexually, and also the sex of those with whom they had “sexual 
contact” — leaving students to define that term.

While transgender youth have increasingly appeared on the 
national radar, most recently in debates about school bathroom 
access, this survey did not include an option for teenagers to 
identify themselves as transgender. But that possibility may be 
coming. The C.D.C. and other federal health agencies are 
developing a question on gender identity to reliably count 
transgender teenagers which, a spokeswoman said, might be ready 
for a pilot test in 2017.

Some 15,600 students across the country, ages 14 to 17, took the 
survey. The population who identified as a sexual minority is in 
line with estimates from other state or local surveys, and with 
national studies of young adults. While the figures paint a 
portrait of loneliness and discrimination that is longstanding 
and sadly familiar, they are important because they now 
establish a national databank.

Dr. Debra Houry, an emergency medicine physician who directs the 
C.D.C.’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, said 
the numbers argued for more comprehensive intervention and 
prevention programs. She praised programs like Green Dot, which 
trains students how to support a victim of bullying or a 
physical altercation. Other programs teach coping skills to 
vulnerable students. As the data suggests, she said, these 
students need better access to mental health care, and support 
from families, schools and communities.

The report does not delve into why these students are at such 
risk for so many types of harm.

Oh well then.  The fact that they are fucked up in the head from 
fucked up parents puts them at risk.  Did you liberal retards 
ever consider that?  People as a rule don't like retards and 
they don't like dick sucking males especially.

Just another bullshit oh poor faggot me report to throw in the 
trash.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/12/health/gay-lesbian-teenagers-
violence.html?_r=1
   

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