“The punches stop hurting. The words take longer to heal.” I’ve been pondering this since an interviewee said it to me last week. Yesterday I ran training for new volunteers and we spent a fair amount of time on current trends in working with LGBT youth, during which we focus on different factors that can […]
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Being enough
Posted: 25th August 2013 by admin in BlogTags: #coming out, #LGBT youth, binary, gender identity, stereotypes
Newer national research informs us that the average coming out age for LGBT kids has dropped to 13 years old across the country, down from 19 less than a decade ago. With this change, we are also seeing a shift in how old kids are when they start to wrestle with their own awareness of […]