https://www.wric.com/news/local-news/chesterfield-county/school-board-trans-student-policy-change/ "If the policies do roll back and they put these [new] policies in place that take away [transgender students’] rights, I’m afraid that we’re gonna have really drastic results" #rva #chesterfieldva #itgetsbetter #trans #lgbtq #lgbtqia
As laws to discriminate against children on the basis of sexual identity become increasingly common here in the U.S., we are getting a clearer picture of how effective they are in harming American children in a variety of ways https://www.thetrevorproject.org/research-briefs/state-level-anti-transgender-laws-increase-past-year-suicide-attempts-among-transgender-and-non-binary-young-people-in-the-usa/ #trevorproject
American suicide statistics
From that paper "Enacting state-level anti-transgender laws increased incidents of past-year suicide attempts among TGNB young people by 7–72%"
American suicide statistics
@npr had some good coverage on this study and the politics of discrimination against school children earlier this year: "To see these numbers after everything was taken into account and the model still held — it's terrifying" https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/09/25/nx-s1-5127347/more-trans-teens-attempted-suicide-after-states-passed-anti-trans-laws-a-study-shows #uspolitics #suicide #education
Sounds like it's more that NPR had some coverage that confirmed your bias. It told you what you wanted to hear.
In general on topics like this NPR has extremely slanted coverage that often enough even misrepresents the positive side not to mention failing to cover the negative side.
NPR reporting has gone so downhill in the last decade or so. And we really need to call them out on that so that they hopefully improve, not just let it slide when it happens to be convenient for our opinions.
