The alarming rate of bullying, homelessness, HIV and suicide among LGBT youth should be an outrage: Nearly a fifth of students are physically assaulted because they are LGBT; among homeless children, 25 to 50 percent are LGBT; the CDC reports
among youth aged 13 to 24 diagnosed with HIV in 2014, 80 percent were
gay and bisexual males; and gay teens are also eight times more likely
to report having attempted suicide.
Instead, the outrage swirls around who gets to
use whose bathroom. Sparked by North Carolina's "bathroom bill", the
legal battle over transgender rights recently escalated to include over a
dozen states suing the federal government in response to the Obama
administration's transgender bathroom policy. What if all the time,
energy and taxpayer money spent on litigation were invested toward
providing comprehensive LGBT inclusive health education for all
children?
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