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…

LGBTQ youth who had access to an LGBTQ-affirming school reported lower rates of attempting suicide than those who did not. February 9, 2023 — The Trevor Project, the leading suicide prevention organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people, opposes the consideration of two bills, SB 2231 and SB 2260, by the North Dakota Senate. If passed, these bills would require teachers to “out” transgender and nonbinary students to their potentially unsupportive parents without their consent, and ban or impose barriers on classroom instruction on LGBTQ topics in schools, effectively erasing LGBTQ history and culture from…

The bill would prohibit doctors from providing best-practice medical care to transgender and nonbinary youth February 8, 2023 — The Trevor Project, the leading suicide prevention organization for LGBTQ young people, condemned the passage of SB99 by the Senate, which would ban doctors from providing best-practice medical care to transgender and nonbinary youth. “This bill would strip transgender youth and their families of their ability to access a well established and highly effective course of medical care, and place that decision-making into the hands of politicians. This blanket ban contradicts the professional guidance of every major medical and mental health…

More than half of transgender and nonbinary youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year and 86% report that recent debates around anti-transgender state laws have negatively impacted their mental health February 7, 2023 — The Trevor Project, the leading suicide prevention organization for LGBTQ young people, condemned the Virginia House of Delegates’ passage of two anti-trans bills: HB 1387 — a bill that would restrict transgender women and girls from playing on school sports teams that match their gender identity, and HB 2432 — a bill which would require teachers to “out” transgender and nonbinary students to their…