What is it about?
This study tracks four years of mental health data among LGBTQ+ youth and young adults in the Texas Panhandle, documenting rates of suicidal ideation, attempts, self-harm, and bullying victimization that consistently run roughly double national averages for the same population.
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Why is it important?
These young people live in one of the most hostile social environments in the country for sexual and gender minorities, with virtually no affirming mental health services and a legislative climate that worsened measurably during the study period. The data show what that costs in human terms.
Perspectives
I lived in this community. These are not abstract data points to me. Watching local institutions fight over drag shows while the young people in the pews and classrooms are attempting suicide at rates twice the national average makes the urgency of this work impossible to overstate.
Dr. Keith Robert Head
Independent Researcher
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This page is a summary of: Elevated Suicide Risk and Mental Health Disparities Among LGBTQ+ Youth and Young Adults in the Texas Panhandle: A Four-Year Analysis, International Journal of Humanities and Applied Social Science, August 2025, The Center for Promoting Education and Research (CPER),
DOI: 10.33642/ijhass.v10n8p3.
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