52% of homosexual youth report self-harming: UK study
LONDON , January 15, 2014 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - A survey by a UK pro- homosexual organization found that 52 percent of the self-professed homosexual youth that took part in the study reported self-harming, while numbers approaching half reported other forms of serious mental health problems. Led by the homosexual advocacy group Metro and funded by the Big Lottery Research Fund, the " Youth Chances " survey is described by organizers as "England’s largest social study into the lives of young LGBT people." Seven thousand 16-25 year-olds, most of whom identified as homosexual, bisexual or transgender, took part in the study. It also surveyed a small subgroup of heterosexuals (11% of the total). The survey found that 52 percent of those questioned reported self-harming. This compares to 35% of the subgroup of heterosexual respondents to the survey. The most recent NHS data puts that number even lower, at 12% overall for this age group. Forty-