INCLUSION
Below you will find statistics that affect our community on a regular basis. Please use this information to help support and encourage our community members throughout their daily lives.
LGBTQ+ Awareness Day
Thursday 10/20/22 was annual LGBTQ+ Awareness Day. This holiday was created in 2010 in response to the overwhelming number of bullying related suicides of queer students. We wore purple to be a visible sign of support for the LGBTQ+ community, against bullying and to honor those LGBTQ+ victims of suicide.
3% of LGBT have felt unsafe at school because of their gender identity
27% of LGBT students have been physically harassed at school because of their sexual orientation
13% of LGBT students have been physically harassed at school because of their gender identity
1 in 6 Michigan LGBTQ students hear school staff make negative comments based on sexual orientation
1 in 3 hear school staff make negative comments based on gender expression
56% who were harassed or assaulted in school never reported it to school staff
Of those that reported, only 28% said that reporting resulted in effective intervention by staff.
The vast majority of LGBTQ students in Michigan regularly hear anti-LGBTQ remarks from other students.
92% heard “gay” used in a negative way
85% heard homophobic remarks
84% heard negative remarks about gender expression
73% heard negative remarks about transgender people
LGB students are 2x more likely to have felt sad or hopeless almost every day for 2 weeks or more in a row
LGB students are 6x more likely to have attempted suicide in the last 12 months
LGB students are 2.4x more likely to have been threatened or injured with a weapon at school
LGB students are 2.5x more likely to skip school because they feel unsafe
(Generally, trans & nonbinary youth have even worse outcomes. Ex., 1 in 3 transmasculine students have attempted suicide)
Sources:
GLSEN biannual national school climate survey; Michigan snapshot (2017).
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/LGBTQ_MentalHealth_OnePager.pdf
https://youth.gov/youth-topics/lgbtq-youth/health-depression-and-suicide
https://www.cdc.gov/lgbthealth/youth.htm
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4887282/
https://www.hrc.org/view-and-share-statistics