New Poll Emphasizes Negative Impacts of Anti-LGBTQ Policies on LGBTQ Youth

[MrNiceGuy]

You are misreading the statistics. 582,462 is the official number of homeless people on a given day, as recorded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The actual number of people who experience some period of homelessness over the course of the entire year is much higher.

According to the National Institutes of Health, individuals who had experienced literal homelessness over their lifetimes was 13.5 million people or 7.4 percent of the population, but your source says that 6.9 million children (out of 73 million youth expertienced homelessness in that single year. If only 13.5 million people out of our 331 million population experience homelessness sometime in their entire lives (median age is now about 39 years old), I think you can see the trouble with the statistics given. Since the source you cite has a vested interest in the numbers being high, I really don't trust them much, since they don't line up with the NIH numbers.

 

[MrNiceGuy]

You need to double check what you "are told" and consider the source.

Well, I mean, the entire trans movement says that trans-suicidality is largely caused by their gender not being sufficiently "affirmed". Since hardly any transgenders were "affirmed" prior to about 5 years ago, one would think that their suicidality would have been at its peak then. We'd have all these suicides going on among youth who weren't allowed to come out of their closets.

 

[Irredentist]

According to the National Institutes of Health, individuals who had experienced literal homelessness over their lifetimes was 13.5 million people or 7.4 percent of the population, but your source says that 6.9 million children (out of 73 million youth expertienced homelessness in that single year. If only 13.5 million people out of our 331 million population experience homelessness sometime in their entire lives (median age is now about 39 years old), I think you can see the trouble with the statistics given. Since the source you cite has a vested interest in the numbers being high, I really don't trust them much, since they don't line up with the NIH numbers.

Here is the relevant study, if you care to read it, which goes into great detail about how they estimated the number of Homeless youth in America.

https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(17)30503-7/fulltext

 

[CLAX1911]

I suspect what would be very helpful to trans kids and trans people in general is simple support and affirmation instead of erasure, and emotional talk of mutilation and castration. They are aware of the issues they face.

There's no such thing as trans kids. I think the best thing for them is to be a voice of reason.

 

[MrNiceGuy]

There's no such thing as trans kids. I think the best thing for them is to be a voice of reason.

If my daughter started doing "boy stuff", like throwing a football, and wanting to "play guns" or whatever, I'd say "oh, ok, have fun."

I can't understand this weird cult going on now where if a boy has a tea party with his stuffed animals, that suddenly everyone has to scramble around wondering if the kid is "really a girl."

Oh, the kid wants to be called Polly or Holly or Jolly or Folly or Billy or Gilly or Willy? Who the hell cares? It doesn't change their sex.

What kids need is guidance and parenting, not "affirmance" And support should mean "however you feel or act, you're fine - your body is yours and it's fine - there is nothing wrong with it." Being a boy is fine. Being a girl is fine. And, being a boy who is effeminate is fine, and being a girl who is butch is fine. Those traits don't make you the opposite sex. Learn to live life and accept oneself as is. That's much better than "navel gaze all day long and wonder if you're a girl."

 

[CLAX1911]

If my daughter started doing "boy stuff", like throwing a football, and wanting to "play guns" or whatever, I'd say "oh, ok, have fun."

I can't understand this weird cult going on now where if a boy has a tea party with his stuffed animals, that suddenly everyone has to scramble around wondering if the kid is "really a girl."

I think there's a lot more to it than just that. But I do think tomboys and for lack of a better word Sissy boys are targeted.

I grew up in a time where nobody cared about this stuff. Doing girl things and boy things was just things that we all did the 90s was a different time but in a lot of ways it was better.

I think a big component of this probably the largest one is social media.

Oh, the kid wants to be called Polly or Holly or Jolly or Folly or Billy or Gilly or Willy? Who the hell cares? It doesn't change their sex.

What kids need is guidance and parenting, not "affirmance" And support should mean "however you feel or act, you're fine - your body is yours and it's fine - there is nothing wrong with it." Being a boy is fine. Being a girl is fine. And, being a boy who is effeminate is fine, and being a girl who is butch is fine. Those traits don't make you the opposite sex. Learn to live life and accept oneself as is. That's much better than "navel gaze all day long and wonder if you're a girl."

I think the most important thing you can do to affirm your child is tell them you can never change your sex it doesn't matter what you do but since you were born as will be the sex you die as when someone digs up your bones a thousand years after you die they'll know what sex you were. Of course you tell them I will love you no matter what because that's true or it should be. And if they're a boy and they want to be a little more effeminate that's fine same with girl and vice versa.

The trans thing seems to be coming from social media. They learn the lingo to describe concepts they probably never had. And there are adult people are there giving them this information.

 

[Lisa]

Bottom line? Parents need to do more loving and protecting of their child. No matter what.

Its just this simple,

 

[mrjurrs]

Its just this simple,

Very strong. The worst part is that most parents including myself can easily fall into that role simply by thinking we are doing the right thing for our children. Looking back, my form of bullying was telling my daughters how great they were and how they could always be better. I see it manifest in their young adult lives as a drive for perfection, something I never would have expected from them and that they could never achieve. It created issues that they recognize as adults. Fortunately they are self aware enough that they don't blame me and allow me to be a part of what they are doing to adjust moving forward.

There are a million ways for parents to screw up their kids...

 

[Lisa]

Very strong. The worst part is that most parents including myself can easily fall into that role simply by thinking we are doing the right thing for our children. Looking back, my form of bullying was telling my daughters how great they were and how they could always be better. I see it manifest in their young adult lives as a drive for perfection, something I never would have expected from them and that they could never achieve. It created issues that they recognize as adults. Fortunately they are self aware enough that they don't blame me and allow me to be a part of what they are doing to adjust moving forward.

There are a million ways for parents to screw up their kids...

I have complex PTSD because of severe child abuse starting when I was in my crib at the hands of my psychopathic mother. You might have noticed my absence for the past week or so. I was doing an intensive outpatient therapy program where it was 12 hours a day therapy and then living together as a group.

How a Diagnosis of Complex PTSD Differs From PTSD

Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) typically results from complex trauma during childhood. Learn more about C-PTSD, how it differs from PTSD, its causes, symptoms, and more.

www.verywellmind.com

I made sure what happened to me didn't happen to my daughter because no person should have to spend the rest of their life trying to recover from their abusive childhood because their parent didn't think, or willfully harmed a child because of their own abusive childhood, so they made the abuse generational.

 

[mrjurrs]

I have complex PTSD because of severe child abuse starting when I was in my crib at the hands of my psychopathic mother. You might have noticed my absence for the past week or so. I was doing an intensive outpatient therapy program where it was 12 hours a day therapy and then living together as a group.

How a Diagnosis of Complex PTSD Differs From PTSD

Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) typically results from complex trauma during childhood. Learn more about C-PTSD, how it differs from PTSD, its causes, symptoms, and more.

www.verywellmind.com

I made sure what happened to me didn't happen to my daughter because no person should have to spend the rest of their life trying to recover from their abusive childhood because their parent didn't think, or willfully harmed a child because of their own abusive childhood, so they made the abuse generational.

I'm so glad that you can see the other shore from your childhood experiences.

In America you have to get a license to have a dog, but no one thinks that preventing some people from becoming parents is a good idea. Be well.