{"title":"[LMBTQ+ youngsters and their families].","authors":"Amaryl Árkovits","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Regardless of sexual orientation, we are all socialised in a heteronormative culture and society. 85% of LGBTQ+ people are aware of their sexual identity before the age of 18, and like members of minority groups in general, they are regularly subjected to microaggressions, possibly overt verbal and/or physical abuse and discrimination. One of the most common settings for this is school. If school is left out of sexual education as a socialisation medium and as a representation of society for the child, the family - and the LGBTQ+ child in it - is left with a heavy burden. The tabooed LGBTQ+ sexuality, excluded from the discourse of public education, reinforces the invisibility of these young people, increasing shame, guilt, feelings of stigma, isolation - with consequent feelings of nonconformity and mental illness. Given that the knowledge, attitudes, orientations and skills of the family members involved are often limited or prejudiced, and that children spend a large part of their lives at school, the family is not the only medium for education and support for identity development, and often the family itself needs support.</p>","PeriodicalId":35063,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatria Hungarica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Psychiatria Hungarica","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Medicine","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Regardless of sexual orientation, we are all socialised in a heteronormative culture and society. 85% of LGBTQ+ people are aware of their sexual identity before the age of 18, and like members of minority groups in general, they are regularly subjected to microaggressions, possibly overt verbal and/or physical abuse and discrimination. One of the most common settings for this is school. If school is left out of sexual education as a socialisation medium and as a representation of society for the child, the family - and the LGBTQ+ child in it - is left with a heavy burden. The tabooed LGBTQ+ sexuality, excluded from the discourse of public education, reinforces the invisibility of these young people, increasing shame, guilt, feelings of stigma, isolation - with consequent feelings of nonconformity and mental illness. Given that the knowledge, attitudes, orientations and skills of the family members involved are often limited or prejudiced, and that children spend a large part of their lives at school, the family is not the only medium for education and support for identity development, and often the family itself needs support.