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    This document discusses the risk factors, experiences, and impacts of bullying faced by LGBTQ+ teens. It notes that physical appearance, behavior, and sexual identity can make teens targets for insults, rumors, harassment, and physical harm. This can lead to emotional experiences like loneliness, self-hatred, panic, fear, and desperation, as well as behaviors like poor school attendance, self-harm, inability to focus, hopelessness, and suicide. Gay teens are four times more likely to be bullied than heterosexual teens. Bullying causes 160,000 kids to miss school out of fear and negatively impacts online behavior and privacy.

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    This document discusses the risk factors, experiences, and impacts of bullying faced by LGBTQ+ teens. It notes that physical appearance, behavior, and sexual identity can make teens targets for insults, rumors, harassment, and physical harm. This can lead to emotional experiences like loneliness, self-hatred, panic, fear, and desperation, as well as behaviors like poor school attendance, self-harm, inability to focus, hopelessness, and suicide. Gay teens are four times more likely to be bullied than heterosexual teens. Bullying causes 160,000 kids to miss school out of fear and negatively impacts online behavior and privacy.

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    Bully Prevent Excerpt 11

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    This document discusses the risk factors, experiences, and impacts of bullying faced by LGBTQ+ teens. It notes that physical appearance, behavior, and sexual identity can make teens targets for insults, rumors, harassment, and physical harm. This can lead to emotional experiences like loneliness, self-hatred, panic, fear, and desperation, as well as behaviors like poor school attendance, self-harm, inability to focus, hopelessness, and suicide. Gay teens are four times more likely to be bullied than heterosexual teens. Bullying causes 160,000 kids to miss school out of fear and negatively impacts online behavior and privacy.

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    There are multiple risk factors: Physical appearance too short, fat, not stylish Behavior way of speaking,

    ing, mannerisms Sexual identity (teens) gay/bi/ transgender; rumors of promiscuity/ inexperience
    INTERVENTION!

    PREVENTION!

    Insults/Rumors Harassment/Death Wish Physical Harm

    Common emotional experiences and changes in behavior: Loneliness Self hatred Poor school attendance Panic Fear Self harm Inability to focus Hopelessness Desperation Suicide Sense of being misjudged Worthlessness Rejection Withdrawal from social engagement

    Gay teens are FOUR TIMES more likely to be bullied than their heterosexual counterparts, especially those of Caucasian descent. 160,000 KIDS miss school because they are afraid of being bullied, according to the National Crime Prevention Council. According to USA Today: 75 PERCENT of youth think people do or say things online that they would not do or say face to face. 20 PERCENT have seen someone taking their electronic messages and sharing them without permission. 50 PERCENT of young people say they have experienced unkind acts like receiving threatening messages or being taunted online. 16 PERCENT say that someone posted embarrassing pictures or videos of them without their permission.

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