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74% of LGBTQ youth in Michigan reported experiencing discrimination due to either their sexual orientation or gender identity  February 21, 2023 — The Trevor Project, the leading suicide prevention organization for LGBTQ young people, announced its support for SB4/HB4003, a bill being considered by the Michigan state legislature that would expand nondiscrimination protections to include sexual orientation and gender identity. The bill passed in the Senate Committee of the Whole today and is now headed to a full vote on the Senate floor. “LGBTQ people, like all people, deserve to be treated with dignity and respect and live free from…

The bill would prohibit doctors from providing best-practice medical care to transgender and nonbinary youth February 15, 2023 — The Trevor Project, the world’s leading suicide prevention organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people, condemned the passage of SB613 by the Oklahoma Senate, which would ban doctors from providing best-practice medical care to transgender and nonbinary youth “Going against the guidance of every major medical and mental health association, this bill brings the state one step closer toward stripping transgender and nonbinary young people of their right to receive best-practice medical care,” said Troy Stevenson…

The bills would prohibit doctors from providing best-practice medical care to transgender and nonbinary youth Feb 14, 2023 — The Trevor Project, the world’s leading suicide prevention organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people, opposes the consideration of multiple bills (SB 49, SB 164, and SB 236) by The Missouri Senate. If passed, these bills would ban doctors from providing best-practice medical care to transgender and nonbinary youth.  “These bills go against the guidance of every major medical and mental health association in the country, and aim to ban transgender and nonbinary youth from receiving…

February 13, 2023 — The Trevor Project, the leading suicide prevention organization for LGBTQ young people, released the following statement in response to the Centers for Disease Control’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data Summary & Trends Report: 2011-2021. Statement from Dr. Ronita Nath (she/her pronouns), Vice President of Research at The Trevor Project: “These alarming data further emphasize why The Trevor Project exists and what we already knew to be true: queer students face disproportionate rates of victimization, and this directly contributes to their higher rates of poor mental health and suicide risk. Queer students are not inherently prone to…

The rule would prohibit doctors from providing best-practice medical care to transgender and nonbinary youth February 10, 2023 — The Trevor Project, the leading suicide prevention organization for LGBTQ young people, opposes the Florida Board of Medicine and the Board of Osteopathic Medicine’s decision to uphold a proposed rule that bans the provision of best-practice medical care to transgender and nonbinary youth, even for research purposes. “Transgender medical care is well-established, best-practice treatment that can allow transgender young people to live happy, healthy lives. This politically motivated blanket ban would make Florida’s standards of care contradict the guidance of the…