Black Queer Youth Suicide Risk | Trevor Project Interview
For-Profit Healthcare Shortchanges Us All, but It's Failing Black Queer Youth En Masse
![MPF: How we increase the representation is there, [but] there's also affordability. So, 60 percent of Black LGBTQ youth who wanted mental healthcare in the past year couldn't afford to get it. That's an important aspect to this as well. How do we make mental healthcare more affordable for Black LGBTQ youth so that they can get access to this care?
"It should force us all to question the systems that allow all of these disparities to persist in the first place."
The reality is that there are so many Black LGBTQ youth who want and need mental healthcare, but can't receive it because it's just unaffordable for them. And, really, that's beyond us. It should force us all to question the systems that allow all of these disparities to persist in the first place.
PS: Absolutely. I think this report is especially pertinent to conversations of universal healthcare that are happening right now around the election — that neither party has accepted fully. But to have these findings, to know that 40 percent of people are open and willing to avail themselves of resources that are not available to them, is heartbreaking. Services can only be so inclusive, but if there's no access, that's a very difficult thing to overcome.
MPF: Yes, absolutely.
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\"It should force us all to question the systems that allow all of these disparities to persist in the first place.\"
The reality is that there are so many Black LGBTQ youth who want and need mental healthcare, but can't receive it because it's just unaffordable for them. And, really, that's beyond us. It should force us all to question the systems that allow all of these disparities to persist in the first place.
PS: Absolutely. I think this report is especially pertinent to conversations of universal healthcare that are happening right now around the election — that neither party has accepted fully. But to have these findings, to know that 40 percent of people are open and willing to avail themselves of resources that are not available to them, is heartbreaking. Services can only be so inclusive, but if there's no access, that's a very difficult thing to overcome.
MPF: Yes, absolutely.
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MPF: How we increase the representation is there, [but] there's also affordability. So, 60 percent of Black LGBTQ youth who wanted mental healthcare in the past year couldn't afford to get it. That's an important aspect to this as well. How do we make mental healthcare more affordable for Black LGBTQ youth so that they can get access to this care?
"It should force us all to question the systems that allow all of these disparities to persist in the first place."
The reality is that there are so many Black LGBTQ youth who want and need mental healthcare, but can't receive it because it's just unaffordable for them. And, really, that's beyond us. It should force us all to question the systems that allow all of these disparities to persist in the first place.
PS: Absolutely. I think this report is especially pertinent to conversations of universal healthcare that are happening right now around the election — that neither party has accepted fully. But to have these findings, to know that 40 percent of people are open and willing to avail themselves of resources that are not available to them, is heartbreaking. Services can only be so inclusive, but if there's no access, that's a very difficult thing to overcome.
MPF: Yes, absolutely.
