Tag: LGBT teens
The Justice Department Wants To Make It Harder To Track Crimes Against LGBT Teens
Advocates worry the move could put an already vulnerable group at even greater risk.
The Department of Justice has signaled it wants to stop asking 16- and 17-year-olds about their sexual orientation and gender identity.
Conducted twice a year, the National Crime Victimization Survey tracks crimes from theft and burglary to sexual assault, to measure trends, including the vulnerability of minority communities.
Since July 2016, all respondents 16 and older have been asked to identify if they are LGBT, but the DOJ...
“It Gets Better” Is Bad Advice For Gay Kids, Study Claims
"Asking youth to accept negative experiences as the only coping strategy potentially exacerbates stress," claims researchers at the University of Arizona.
The It Gets Better projects was launched by Dan Savage and Terry Miller in 2010, in response to a chilling number of suicides by LGBT teens facing bullying. Sine then, it’s added more than 50,000 videos from people of all walks of life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IcVyvg2Qlo
But a new study suggests imagining a better future may not be an ideal coping mechanism for...
