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# Anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and state laws are hurting youth mental health, poll shows
- URL: https://werd.io/anti-lgbtq-rhetoric-and-state-laws-are-hurting-youth-mental-health/
- Published: 2023-01-19T16:27:14.000Z
- Updated: 2023-01-19T16:27:14.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:22

“Seventy-one percent of the 716 surveyed LGBTQ+ youth, ranging from teenagers to young adults who took the online poll last fall, said that debates around state laws restricting the rights of LGBTQ+ young people had negatively impacted their mental health. Twenty-seven percent characterized the negative effect as severe.” [#Society](https://werd.io/tag/Society)

\[[Link](https://19thnews.org/2023/01/lgbtq-mental-health-youth-laws/)\]