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Originally Posted by Matata
Govern me harder, corporate-daddy. I dont want kids pushed into lifestyles with staggering suicide and mental health rates. Im such a monster lol.
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Like… what?
Are you suggesting pride events persuade heterosexual youth into converting to homosexuality? Based on…?
If you’re looking for some sources then you could try, I don’t know, talking to people from the LGBTQ community about how they found themselves apart of said group? Hell, there’s a well written account just a few posts back to peruse.
Like it seems your uneducated assumption is they are lured by the pretty colours, and then after which are lambasted with the mental illnesses and suicide ideation that plagues the community.
From the Trevor Project:
“LGBTQ youth are not inherently prone to suicide risk because of their sexual orientation or gender identity but rather placed at higher risk because of how they are mistreated and stigmatized in society.“
Now I assume you’d refute that statement due to the source, never-minding the studies it cites to craft such an inference. But let’s revisit the crux of your post.
You want to save kid’s lives? And hope to accomplish that by reducing iniatives meant to support LGBTQ awareness?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39043149.amp
As this BBC article points out, suicide attempts decrease as means to a more supportive society increases.
If your assumption is a decrease in awareness and support will mean less gay youth, or at least keep them in the closet ashamed of their feelings, and that will lead to less mental anguish and suicides as a total, well I’m afraid to say that the studies and evidence do not back that up.
And based on your original claim, if you do care most about the well being of children, but don’t care about the evidence pointing out that societal support saves lives, well choose whatever personal descriptor you like.
Monster seems apt.