{"id":5299,"date":"2022-05-05T22:50:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T22:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/political-targeting-the-pandemic-exacerbate-mental-health-struggles-of-lgbtq-youth\/"},"modified":"2022-05-05T22:50:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T22:50:51","slug":"political-targeting-the-pandemic-exacerbate-mental-health-struggles-of-lgbtq-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=5299","title":{"rendered":"Political targeting, the pandemic exacerbate mental health struggles of LGBTQ youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s_UQoWHkQBU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A survey from The Trevor Project found that 45 percent of LGBTQ youth across the U.S. seriously considered suicide last year. Fourteen percent attempted suicide and the rate was even higher among transgender and non-binary individuals. That builds on what the CDC found last month in its first national survey of high schoolers. The Trevor Project&#8217;s Sam Ames joins William Brangham to discuss.<\/p>\n<p>Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/2Jb8twG\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/to.pbs.org\/2Jb8twG<\/a><br \/>\nFind more from PBS NewsHour at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour<\/a><br \/>\nSubscribe to our YouTube channel: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2HfsCD6\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2HfsCD6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nFacebook: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/newshour<\/a><br \/>\nInstagram: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newshour\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newshour<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe:<br \/>\nPBS NewsHour podcasts: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/podcasts\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/podcasts<\/a><br \/>\nNewsletters: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/subscribe\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A survey from The Trevor Project found that 45 percent of LGBTQ youth across the U.S. seriously considered suicide last year. Fourteen percent attempted suicide and the rate was even higher among transgender and non-binary individuals. That builds on what&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4988],"tags":[4019,9625,9626,4289,9627,9628,9629,1711,9630,9631,9632,9633],"class_list":["post-5299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","category-politics-feed","tag-lgbtq","tag-lgbtq-legislation","tag-lgbtq-mental-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-health-disparities","tag-non-binary-yout","tag-suicidality-lgbtq","tag-transgender","tag-transgender-youth","tag-youth-lgbtq","tag-youth-mental-health","tag-youth-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}