Massive new study says Donald Trump's presidency worsened LGBTQ mental health [View all]
A new study of 1.06 million Americans has found that the mental distress of LGBTQ Americans increased during the administration of Republican President Donald Trump, arguably the most anti-LGBTQ president of all time.
The study, published in the journal Economics & Human Biology, looked at responses from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). The BRFSS is a survey of nearly 450,000 adults conducted annual by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The survey asks respondents how many days during the past 30 days they considered their mental health to be “not good.” People who respond “30 days” are considered to have experienced “extreme mental distress.”
The study found that LGBTQ-identified respondents experienced a greater increase in extreme mental distress than non-LGBTQ respondents.
In 2014, before Trump became president, 7.7 percent of LGBTQ individuals and 4.8 percent of non-LGBTQ individuals reported extreme mental distress. By 2019, three years into Trump’s presidency, 12 percent of LGBTQ adults reported extreme mental distress, compared to just five percent of non-LGBTQ people.
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I would say "Well, duh! Water is wet!", but, given some of the comments I have seen recently in self-proclaimed liberal/progressive spaces, maybe it isn't as obvious as one would think. It is disturbing how ingrained homophobia and heterosexism are in the overall culture, so much so, even some our alleged allies are making things difficult for us.
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