Pride Month 2022 is marching on, so the editorial team at The Mighty wanted to take a moment to feature some of our most active contributors in the LGBTQIA+ community — that is, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual communities respectively.
LGBTQIA+ rights are important to us at The Mighty, particularly with the way they intersect with health care. The statistics speak for themselves: people who identify as lesbian, gay, and bisexual are twice as likely to experience a mental health condition, rising to nearly four times as likely for people who identify as transgender.
Even with suicide being the second leading cause of death among young people aged 10 to 24, LGBTQIA+ youth are four times more likely to attempt suicide.
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