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Smaller, Whiter Schools Worse for Queer Teens
What can improve mental health for queer teens? Your school, maybe, a new study found. An analysis of the social and friendship networks in high schools found that in small, mostly white high schools queer teens were isolated and marginalized. In bigger, more diverse schools, however, they were not.
Free Training Videos in Trans Health Care Now Available
Thanks to the folks at the National LGBT Health Education Center, a series of free online training videos on transgender health will be available to stream online over the next few weeks.
Queer and Straight Cancer Survivors React Differently to Fertility Problems
Queer and non-queer cancer survivors react differently to fertility issues after treatment, a new study found. Straight survivors had more problems in their relationships when they had problems having kids. Queer survivors tended to be more with raising non-biological kids or not having them than straight survivors.
Discrimination May Be Causing PTSD for Trans Folks
Researchers recently found that discrimination was leading to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Both more general discrimination and more everyday discriminating events were linked to PTSD symptoms, even when other trauma was taken out of the equation.
Discrimination Puts Gay and Bi Men at Risk for HIV—but It Depends on Race
How does discrimination against young gay and bi men impact risky behavior that can lead to HIV? Not how you might think. Low levels of discrimination buffered everyone from HIV-causing risky behavior, though more for whites than others. High levels of discrimination, however, caused risky behavior in whites to spike much more than in men of color. Why? Men of color are more used to dealing with discrimination. Fascinating.