What is it about?
This paper analyzes six years of Trevor Project national survey data to track suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, discrimination, physical violence, and conversion therapy exposure among LGBTQ+ youth from 2019 through 2024, identifying where conditions improved and where they worsened.
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Why is it important?
The data span a period that included a pandemic, an unprecedented wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, and the launch of new crisis infrastructure, making it one of the most consequential stretches in recent memory for this population. Tracking what actually happened to these young people across that period matters for every decision made about funding, policy, and clinical services going forward.
Perspectives
Nearly half of LGBTQ+ adolescents seriously considering suicide in a given year is not a statistic that should be buried in annual reports without someone pulling the full picture together and saying clearly what it means. That is what this paper tries to do.
Dr. Keith Robert Head
Independent Researcher
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This page is a summary of: Six-Year Trends in LGBTQ+ Youth Mental Health in the United States, Integrated Journal for Research in Arts and Humanities, May 2025, Stallion Publication,
DOI: 10.55544/ijrah.5.3.37.
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