We know that there are high rates of suicide in the LGBTQ community, especially among our youth. We are not, at this point, able to make the causal connection between discrimination, harassment, and bullying and those tragedies. Surveys funded by the federal government often do not ask questions about sexual orientation or gender identity. So we can't necessarily present the evidence of things that we just know instinctively to be true. (24:14–24:23)
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