U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

LGBT Youth

About this resource:

HHS Non-Systematic Review

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Last Reviewed: June 2017

Workgroups: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health Workgroup

This website provides information on the experiences of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) youth. It highlights how LGB youth:

  • Experience violence
  • Need education and mental health support
  • Can receive support from schools
  • Can receive support from parents

The website currently only has information on LGB youth but will be updated to include transgender, questioning, and queer youth.

 

Per a court order, HHS is required to restore this website as of 11:59 PM, February 14, 2025. Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate, and disconnected from the immutable biological reality that there are two sexes, male and female. The Trump Administration rejects gender ideology and condemns the harms it causes to children, by promoting their chemical and surgical mutilation, and to women, by depriving them of their dignity, safety, well-being, and opportunities. This page does not reflect biological reality and therefore the Administration and this Department rejects it. 

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Objectives related to this resource (1)

Reduce bullying of lesbian, gay, or bisexual high school students — LGBT‑05
Baseline only

Suggested Citation

1.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention. (2017). LGBT youth. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/lgbthealth/youth.htm