- Future research should examine how diverse groups of LGBT youth experience victimization and suicide, as well as resilience. 
- The addition of standardized items on gender identity to surveys
such as the YRBS will be particularly important as transgender youth experience greater victimization than their cisgender LGB peers.

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- Although SMY experience higher rates of victimization than do HY, school-based victimization that involves weapons or is due to one’s SO/GID appear to be the most deleterious. 
- That SMY may skip school to reduce their risk of suicidal ideation and behaviors is problematic, and schools should be encouraged to enact and enforce policies that  explicitly protect SMY from victimization.

Study Conclusions

Bouris, A., Everett, B. G., Heath, R. D., Elsaesser, C. E., & Neilands, T. B. (2016). Effects of victimization and violence on suicidal ideation and behaviors among sexual minority and heterosexual adolescents. LGBT Health, 3(2), 153–161. https://doi.org/10.1089/lgbt.2015.0037

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