theFeed every day and we understand the detrimental impacts discrimination and harassment can have on their mental health and well-being,” Dr. Myeshia Price-Feeney, a research scientist at The Trevor Project, said. “We hope this data will encourage more robust nationwide data collection on LGBTQ youth mental health, and that policymakers and health care providers will use these insights to create policies and safe spaces that protect and affirm trans youth everywhere.” For more information on The Trevor Project, visit www.thetrevorproject.org. The Trevor Project’s crisis counselors can be reached via phone at 1-866-488-7386, text at 678678, or via chat at www. thetrevorproject.org/help.
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significantly more likely to consider suicide than their fellow LGBQ peers. “Prior to this study, there was a clear lack of research on the differences in mental health and suicidality within different sub-groups of LGBTQ youth,” Dr. Amy Green, the director of research at The Trevor Project, said in a statement. “These results underscore that transgender and nonbinary youth are particularly vulnerable to poor mental health outcomes and suicide risk compared to their cisgender peers within the LGBTQ community,” Green added. “Furthermore, they show how LGBTQ-based discrimination and victimization contribute to these increased mental health disparities.” “At The Trevor Project, we hear from trans youth in crisis
Racist Cover-up
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Christian teacher charged with soliciting a male prostitute after claiming black men kidnapped him. By Rhuaridh Marr
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FORMER TEACHER AT A CHRISTIAN SCHOOL IN Macon, Ga., has been charged with solicitation of sodomy after claiming that he was in a hotel room because two black men had kidnapped him. Christopher Keys, 56, was arrested by Bibb County police officers after they investigated a “rumor about a carjacking and kidnapping” at a CVS last week, the Macon Telegraph reports. The rumor stemmed from a Facebook post — since deleted — which alleged that Keys was at a CVS on May 19 when “two black males quickly jumped in his vehicle and put a gun to his head.” It then claimed that Keys — a former teacher at private Christian school Tattnall Square Academy — was driven to a nearby motel, where the men robbed him, stealing his cell phone and $70. The woman who wrote the original post told 13WMAZ that she had heard the story from her daughter, who had heard it from Keys. But police say that, rather than kidnapped and taken to 22
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the motel against his will, Keys was at the Regency Inn on Eisenhower Parkway to meet another man, which is where he was reportedly robbed by two men. He allegedly fabricated the kidnapping to prevent family from finding out why he was at the motel. Keys told police that, while in his room, a man knocked on his door. Keys allowed him to enter, after which the man reportedly told Keys to get on the bed and held a gun to his head. A second man then entered while the first left the room to steal Keys’ wallet from his truck. After the men left, Keys reported the incident to the sheriff’s office “as a personal armed robbery,” according to a police release. Keys attended the motel intending to meet another man after responding to a Craigslist ad, police said. Per the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office: “An investigation revealed that Keys had been a frequent visitor to the Regency Inn & Suites since January.” 13WMAZ reported that Keys told sheriff’s deputies that he
