High rates of weight-based bullying found among LBGTQ adolescents

(Wiley) Adolescents who identify as LGBTQ often face victimization and bullying because of their sexual and/or gender identity. New research from the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity and the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Connecticut indicates that high percentages of LGBTQ youth are also teased and bullied because of their body weight -- in some cases at higher rates than previous reports of weight-based bullying in heterosexual youth.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news