ChrisL
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How many?
Perspective | Homeless rates for LGBT teens are alarming, but parents can make a difference
Up to 1.6 million young people experience homelessness in the United States every year. Forty percent of them identify as LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender), according to a 2012 study conducted by the Williams Institute at UCLA Law. It’s estimated that LGBT youth represent about 7 percent of the population, which puts that 40 percent figure into heartbreaking context.
The study’s other findings are equally bleak: 46 percent of homeless LGBT youths ran away because of family rejection of their sexual orientation or gender identity; 43 percent were forced out by parents, and 32 percent faced physical, emotional or sexual abuse at home.
“There are several reasons parents reject their LGBT youth,” said Telaina Eriksen, author of “Unconditional: A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child.” “Sometimes it is based on religion; they think that their child is a sinner or that their child needs to be punished so they see ‘the error of their ways.’ They might think if they force their child to leave their home, their child may return repenting, magically somehow no longer LGBT.”
Unconditional love.
This does not mean that is WHY they were thrown out of their homes. It is well documented that transgender people have more emotional/mental issues than the normal population. It could be that they are just assholes? Maybe they steal from their parents to support a drug habit? Maybe their parents are at their wits end with these kids and don't know what to do with them anymore because they refuse to abide by the parent's rules while living in their homes?
Wow.
Wow? Is this something else you were unaware of? Do you need another link for education?
Witchit has been viewing filtered info on the internet for years. Ever see that SNL skit "The Bubble"? She'd move there if she could afford it.
I don't know but it seems as if people just want to believe everything they are told without delving deeper into it, like other similar psychiatric issues and how those are managed, and how mangling a person's normal healthy body parts is not really helping them at all in the long run.