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“What have I learned from transitioning? I can’t overstate the biggest joy, which is really seeing yourself. I know I look different to others, but to me I’m just starting to look like myself. It’s indescribable, because I’m just like, there I am. And thank God. Here I am. So the greatest joy is just being able to feel present, literally, just to be present."— Elliot Page

“Integrating multiple intersecting identities into your whole self is a lifetime’s work. If you asked me in my teens and twenties how I navigate being Indian, immigrant, Muslim, and queer, I wouldn’t have known how to answer the question.”

“We’ve come a long way toward public understanding of the full, beautiful spectrum of sexual orientation,” Ames said. “But when it comes to gender identity, we have a lot of work to do.”

Our NEW polling data from Morning Consult also found:

🧡 A majority of U.S. adults would be comfortable having LGBTQ children.

🏳️‍🌈 Most adults know someone who is gay or lesbian

🏳️‍⚧️ Fewer than 1 in 3 adults personally know a trans person.

Read more about the report ⬆️

“It’s also an occasion to discover the emerging language the asexual community has helped create to communicate nuanced identities and diverse desires in more detailed and accurate ways” 🖤🤍💜

Happy International Asexuality Day! We worked with Dictionary.com to explore ace spectrum language around sexual orientation, romantic attraction, and relationship types 🌈

“My parents saved up for the so-called counseling, having heard through a network of Baptist preachers that, in many cases, clients required months, sometimes years, of "treatment.” By the time I realized conversion therapy didn’t work, it had not only taken our money but also caused our family deep emotional and psychological harm"

“Gender-affirming care models—which can include treatments that help align a person’s sex characteristics with their gender identity—are supported by all relevant major medical organizations, including the American Medical Association (AMA), the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychological Association. Trans and gender expansive children cannot receive affirming medical treatment without their parent’s or guardian’s consent in the U.S. healthcare system, and an emerging body of research has found that affirming care models can result in young people having fewer mental health concerns.”

“What I am concerned about is that something that is doing significant and documented harm to the health and well-being of LGBTQ youth is being seen as a highly effective political tactic and means of fundraising,” said Casey Pick, a senior fellow for advocacy and governmental affairs at the Trevor Project. “It scares me that LGBTQ youth are being sacrificed to a political process.”

🛑 This message is dehumanizing and dangerous 🛑 

📢 According to our research, transgender youth who have accepting parents are less likely to attempt suicide 📢

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