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Young Adolescent Advocacy Project

Young Adolescent Advocacy Project. LGBTIQ Students CI 3920 Caroline Ayers. What is LGBTIQ?. LGBT is an acronym that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer. Lesbian- A woman attracted to a woman.

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Young Adolescent Advocacy Project

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  1. Young Adolescent Advocacy Project LGBTIQ Students CI 3920 Caroline Ayers

  2. What is LGBTIQ? • LGBT is an acronym that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer. • Lesbian- A woman attracted to a woman. • Gay-Men attracted to men. Colloquially used as an umbrella term to include all LGBTIQ people. • Bisexual-Also bi. A person who is attracted to two sexes or two genders, but not necessarily simultaneously or equally.

  3. LGBTIQ Continued • Transgender-Transgender people are those whose psychological self ("gender identity") differs from the social expectations for the physical sex they were born with. • Intersex-Intersexuality is a set of medical conditions that feature congenital anomaly of the reproductive and sexual system. Non standard chromosomes, genitalia, or reproductive system.

  4. LGBTIQ Continued • Queer- • An umbrella term to refer to all LGBTIQ people • A political statement, as well as a sexual orientation, which advocates breaking binary thinking and seeing both sexual orientation and gender identity as potentially fluid

  5. Suicide • Gay and lesbian youth are 2 to 3 times more likely to attempt suicide than heterosexual young people. • As many as 1 in 3 gay and lesbian youth have attempted suicide.

  6. Verbal Abuse • 84% of LGBT students report being verbally harassed (name calling, threats, etc.) because of their sexual orientation. • 91.5% of LGBT students report hearing homophobic remarks, such as “faggot,” “dyke” or the expression “that’s so gay” frequently or often. • Students who experience frequent verbal harassment because of their sexual orientation are less likely than other students to plan to attend college. 13.4% of LGBT students who report verbal harassment do not intend to go to college, twice the figure of those LGBT students who report only rare or less frequent verbal harassment (6.7%).

  7. Rejection and Depression • 50% of lesbian and gay youth report parental rejection because of their sexual orientation. • 4 out of 5 students in school don’t know 1 supportive adult in their school environment. • In a study of depression and gay youth, researchers found depression strikes gay youth four to five times more severely than their non-gay peers.

  8. Violence and Substance Abuse • 64.3% of LGBT students report feeling unsafe at their school because of their sexual orientation. • Students who describe themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered are five times more likely to miss school because of feeling unsafe. 28% are forced to drop out. • More than half of gay men will encounter an issue with chemical dependency or addiction over the course of their lifetimes. • LGBT teenagers are nearly 200 percent more likely than straight teens to use illicit substances such as drugs or alcohol, according to a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center study.

  9. Implications for family • Open your eyes and heart to you child, and make sure that they know that they can talk to you about anything. • Be aware- • Is you child being bullied? Dreading school? Acting depressed? Hiding things from you? Experimenting with substances? • Are you pushing gender stereotypes on your child?

  10. Implications for teachers • You WILL have LGBTIQ students who are at high risk for bullying, suicide, homelessness, depression, violence, family rejection, etc. • Adolescents are going through rapid and intense changes as well as attempting to form their identity- being LGBTIQ only makes this process more difficult and complex, therefore these students need as much support as possible.

  11. What do we as teachers do? • Do not tolerate any negative language or bullying. • If you are willing to talk about this issue, make sure your students know that. • Do not act like LGBTIQ people don’t exist- ignoring this issue does not make it go away. • Use my resource page, get informed, and open your mind- if you have a problem with LGBTIQ kids 1) CHANGE YOUR MAJOR 2) THEY WILL KNOW – kids are not dumb. • Start a GSA!

  12. Teacher Resources • http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/educator/index.html • http://gsanetwork.org/ • http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/index.php/glbtq-resources-for-professionals • http://www.siecus.org

  13. Parent Resources • http://www.itgetsbetter.org • http://www.healthychildren.org • http://familyproject.sfsu.edu/files/English_Final_Print_Version_Last.pdf

  14. Student Resources • http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/student/index.html • http://gsanetwork.org/ • http://www.itgetsbetter.org • http://www.siecus.org

  15. Sources • http://geneq.berkeley.edu/lgbt_resources_definiton_of_terms • http://www.noh8campaign.com/photo-galleries • http://www.youthprideri.org/Resources/Statistics/tabid/227/Default.aspx • http://queersunited.blogspot.com/2008/12/lgbt-bullying-statistics.html • http://lgbtdrugrehab.com/addiction-treatment-statistics

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