In response to state legislation targeting LGBTQ people over the last three years, young members of the community plan to demonstrate in all 50 states and Washington D.C. in what some say will be one of the largest youth-led protests in history.
, it found that LGBTQ youths who had at least one LGBTQ-affirming space had 35% reduced odds of reporting a suicide attempt in the prior year, with LGBTQ-affirming schools having the strongest association with reduced suicide attempts.
“I did not feel like I deserved a place in this world,” said Silverman, now 21 and a sophomore at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where they are studying religion. All of that changed the second they walked into their school’s gender-sexuality alliance, or GSA, a club for LGBTQ students, they said.
That’s part of what they hope the march provides for other queer youths: a sense of community and unity under the shared goals of safety, autonomy and joy. Burnside has two messages that she plans to share at the march. First, she said, “Trans people are people, and we are here, and we are willing to fight for our rights.”
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