The Dangers Living In A Red State.

For us who live here in the Northeast we don’t know what it is like living in the Bible Belt. Here most of the parents accept their LGBTQ+ son or daughter but in the Bible Belt it is very, very different.

Over half of LGBTQ Southerners say their parents tried to change or repress their identity, report finds
Transgender participants and people of color were more likely to say that a caregiver tried to change or repress their LGBTQ identity.
NBC News
By Jo Yurcaba
September 2, 2022


More than half, or about 58%, of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people living in 13 Southern states reported that a parent or caregiver tried to change or repress their sexual orientation or gender identity, according to a survey published this week by the Campaign for Southern Equality, which promotes LGBTQ equality across the South.

Some groups were more likely to report experiencing such efforts: More than two-thirds of transgender participants (68.7%) and participants of color (67.5%) reported experiencing these efforts, compared to 50.8% of cisgender participants and 57.4% of white participants. Younger LGBTQ Southerners, those ages 18-24, were also more likely to report that a caregiver tried to change or repress their identity (64.4%) compared to those 25 and older (51.1%). 

The Campaign for Southern Equality partnered with Campus Pride, which advocates for LGBTQ inclusivity and safety at U.S. colleges and universities, to survey 4,146 LGBTQ Southerners in the fall of 2021. The new survey's questions covered family, faith, education and health.

Also remember in many of the southern states conversion therapy is still legal on minors, they still can get their brain zapped with electroconvulsive therapy!

“This lack of support and inclusion is disempowering and may cause detrimental harm to their mental and physical wellbeing, especially when that lack of support gets compounded with clear, state-sponsored discrimination such as the passage of anti-LGBTQ laws,” he stated.

Among the other data, the survey found that more than two-thirds (68.82%) of respondents who identified as spiritual or religious reported that they were alienated or discouraged from participating in their faith community due to their LGBTQ identity.

This is where Trump has his supporter base, the southern evangelical Christains, the holier-than-thou crowd where they will force their religion on children… and they call us “groomers” they should look in the mirror.

“Young LGBTQ+ people are being forced to conjure immense strength and resilience to combat marginalization and isolation — and it’s vital that we do everything we can, on every level of society, to support and affirm them for being who they are,” Windmeyer stated.

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“Considering both the findings of this report and the anti-LGBTQ sentiment among many school boards and decision makers across the South, it is clear that much of the harm experienced by younger LGBTQ individuals is in school,” the authors wrote in the report’s conclusion. “Regardless of the political and cultural attacks in the South, and the lack of protections from the institutions we rely on as Southerners, the LBGTQ community in the South is truly that — a community, one with an overwhelming amount of love, acceptance, joy, and beauty.”

They will either cure you of being trans or they will kill you, that are your options in the Bible Belt.