The Support of Homosexual and Transgender Teens
As a minority population in echo Owls across the country, LIGHT youth commonly experience high rates of discrimination and harassment, yet are often not protected under school policy. And even though most parents f favor teaching about sexual orientation in schools, most sexuality education programs do not cove r this topic and abstinence’s intermarriage programs merely further negative sentiment to ward these students. As a result, LIGHT youth are more vulnerable to a variety of harmful I behaviors, including skipping school and attempting suicide, than their heterosexual pee RSI.
Also, Negative attitudes toward lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LEG) people put these youth at in creased risk for experiences with violence, compared with other students. Violence can include e behaviors such as bullying, teasing, harassment, physical assault, and quadruplicated behavior s. (Facts) Witty 2 According to data from Youth Risk Behavior Surveys (HERBS) conducted during 200102009 in seven states and six large urban school districts, the percentage of LEG studs nets (across the sites) who were threatened or injured with a weapon on school property in the e prior year ranged from 12% to 28%.
In addition, 19% to 29% of gay and lesbian students and 18 % to 28% of bisexual students experienced dating violence in the prior year and 14% to 31 % of gay and lesbian students and 17% to 32% of bisexual students had been forced to have e sexual intercourse at some point in their lives. LIGHT youth are also at increased iris k for suicidal thoughts and behaviors, suicide attempts, and suicide. A nationally represent dative study of adolescents in grades 7-12 found that lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth were more than twice as likely to have attempted suicide as their heterosexual peers.
More studies AR needed to better understand the risks for suicide among transgender youth. However, one SST day with 55 transgender youth found that about 25% reported suicide attempts and sough HTH help, but over 60% had attempted suicide. (LIGHT Youth) Some parents claim to hate their houseful children because of the bible. Ma NY people quote the Bible as their reason for gay bias, denying respect, acceptance and basic hum an rights, going against what America AND Jesus Christ is all about.
Some of these parents can be very accepting, but due to their interpretation Of religion they have denied their chi Direr. LIGHT teens have reported due to their family, about 31% have either thought our at tempted suicide ( 31 Arguments This brings me to the opposing argument, the Bible telling people that homo sexuality is wrong. There are many passages talking about homosexuality, often condemning it a s a sin. Here are some examples. Level. 18:22, “You shall not lie with a male as one lies with ape male; it is an abomination. Level. 20: 13, Witty 3 “If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodiest nines is upon them. ” 1 Core. 6:91 0, “Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inhere t the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, no r effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, n or swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God. ” Room. :2628, “For this reason God gave them ova ere to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is UN natural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and b Rene in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not pro per. ” (The Bible) In the beginning, God made Adam and EVE, not Adam and Steve, nor Eve and Jane. Some Antigen Christian ministers have used this to propagate the myth that homos sexually is “unnatural. ” While the Bible in Genesis tells us that God made “male and fem. ale,” does this ally mean that all males and all females need to end up with opposite sex p ratters? When talking about “what’s natural,” in the beginning, the first humans did not wear prescription glasses to see, use wheelchairs to get around, or attach prosthetic limbs to e enhance mobility. Are all of those aspects of humanity “unnatural”? Many translations say that God makes Adam a “suitable helper/ companion. While Adam already had all the animals of the world under his dominion, God saw that Adam was alone and he needed a “suitable” helper, who just so happened to be first lady Eve. Relating this to our own lives, so many Of us are Witty 4 surrounded by many “helpers” and “companions,” but, only a few, maybe one, are truly suitable to aid and comfort a person throughout his or her life. People who are gay or lesbian maybe surrounded by heterosexual mates who are perfectly “adequate” helpers, but the “suitable helper and companion” that God has made for them is not a person of the opposite sex.
Plus, if gay people are not meant to be with their “suitable helper/ companions,” are they meant to be alone, without a helper? Believe God would say “no,” according to Genesis 2: 18. Mum Tipple parts of the Bible such as Luke 10: 1013; Isaiah 19: 1314; Jeremiah 23: 14; Ezekiel 16: 49; Z epiphanies 2: 811 tell us that God despised the greed and their wickedness toward outsider s as their sin, not that fact that men wanted to “have sew with men. What Does) As you can see, the rate of homosexual and transgender suicides is growing g every year, some parents need to accept their child because love is love, and religion should no t stop them from helping their child through the roughness of teens at school. Teachers and SST dents could also be ore accepting of open students because the bullying is leading people to ha rim each other and themselves. Witty 5 Work cited Page “Facts About Suicide. ” Facts About Suicide .
