Every June, businesses and public spaces are decorated with rainbow colors to celebrate the International LGBTIQ+ Pride Day, which seeks to promote tolerance, equality, and well-being for sexual and gender diversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As human beings, we have made progress in enabling non-heterosexual or heteronormative people to live freely and with dignity, but still, challenges remain: 57% of LGBTIQ+ youth in Mexico have seriously considered taking their own lives in the last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is just one of the many data revealed by the 2024 Mexico National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People<\/a>, conducted by The Trevor Project<\/a>, the largest organization in the world dedicated to suicide prevention and mental health of young people in this community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAn important aspect of this survey\u2014besides its national coverage\u2014is that it was open to respondents from ages 13 to 24,” says Tania Rocha<\/a>, a research professor at the Faculty of Psychology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), who coordinated the efforts to conduct the survey in Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Understanding the mental health of LGBTIQ+ youth stems from a global concern about the rise in childhood and adolescent suicides in recent years<\/a>. One risk factor in this phenomenon is the bullying experienced by people in this community<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen we talk about LGBTIQ+ people, that risk triples,\u201d says Rocha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n