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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 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. • 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.
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.
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
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.
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%).
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.
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.
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?
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.
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!
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
Parent Resources • http://www.itgetsbetter.org • http://www.healthychildren.org • http://familyproject.sfsu.edu/files/English_Final_Print_Version_Last.pdf
Student Resources • http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/student/index.html • http://gsanetwork.org/ • http://www.itgetsbetter.org • http://www.siecus.org
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