Reducing Inequalities Between Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Adolescents and Cisgender, Heterosexual Adolescents Proceedings of a Workshop (2022) / Chapter Skim
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2 LGBTQ Youth of Color
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LIVED EXPERTISE Planning committee member Nat Duran (Illinois Safe Schools Alliance) served as moderator of the Lived Expertise panel and guided the discussion through a series of questions as listed below.
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In August 2019, replied Valdez, there was a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas. Out of this tragedy came the El Paso United Family Resiliency Center, which offers free counseling to people of all ages, backgrounds, and creeds.
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For people who are already marginalized, she said, "society doesn't always listen." Kahn emphasized the importance of believing people when they express how they are feeling. Vishnoi noted that, while many health organizations have attempted to address these issues by establishing a diversity board or hiring a diverse person, health systems require systemic change to better serve LGBTQ people of color.
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Another misconception, said Khan, is that youth are not capable or responsible. Khan drew attention to the magnitude of student and youth activism and noted that many political and social movements are predominantly youth led.
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Duran noted that there were concerns that the isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic would lead to negative consequences for LGBTQ youth. However, anecdotes suggest that some young people are feeling more empowered: Valdez's GSA club1 has seen enormous growth, and his school district has received an unprecedented number of gender-support plan requests.
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, and how these oppressive forces overlap to create unique conditions. As an illustration, Santos asked workshop participants to imagine reading Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I a Woman" without the context of the oppressive forces of racism or sexism.
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For example, LGBTQ youth experiences may be shaped by microsystems such as perceived racism or conflicts between multiple social identities, mesosystems such as lack of a ccess to culturally sensitive health providers, and macrosystems such as state laws and policies. Santos also encouraged researchers to adopt frameworks that connect intersecting dimensions of resilience; for example, considering questions such as, "How does Black liberation tie to the neurodiversity movement for LGBTQ black youth who may live with disabilities?
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An online survey examined the relationship between these types of stressors and mental health among SGM college students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Gattamorta described how the data from the survey were used to examine two issues: first, changes in frequency of racism and SGM-related stress since the start of the pandemic and whether these factors led to psychological distress; second, relationships between racism, family rejection, identity concealment, and internalized homophobia.
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Of the approximately 200 students in the sample, 65 percent reported increased family rejection during the pandemic, and 67.5 percent experienced an increased in racism. The study sought to examine the impact of changes in the external stressors of family rejection and racism on the internal stressors of internalized homophobia and identity concealment.
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Reyes said that "when you center the most marginalized, everyone benefits." Reyes noted that trans women of color are one of the most marginalized and vulnerable communities, and the Trans Sistas of Color Project was established to uplift this community. Trans Sistas of Color helps the community by providing emergency assistance for individuals, conducting policy work to facilitate gender changes, and supporting families when a trans woman is murdered.
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Robinson asked speakers to comment on ways to pro vide support, understanding, and protection for these youths. Gattamorta agreed with R obinson's assessment, noting that researchers tend to "lump" together racial and ethnic minority or SGM populations, despite unique experiences.
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In the question-and-answer ses sion, planning committee member David Chae (Tulane University) asked speakers to comment on the role of racism within LGBTQ contexts, specifi cally sexual racism in gay communities and gay online spaces, as a potential cause of racial inequities in health and HIV.
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As an example, Wilson described an intervention her colleagues developed to improve the health of HIV-positive Black gay and bisexual men, which provides legal assistance to challenge housing discrimination and discrimination in other contexts. Much of the intervention is still focused on the individual level, she said, but it also seeks to change individuals' relationships to the structural-level issues that we tend to name but not directly target for change.
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