So why aren’t they getting the support they need?
rates at 50% higher than heterosexual peers, and nine times higher for trans students than their cisgender peers.
including students. “And for international students, it’s a challenge for them to say something because their abuser might threaten that they’ll lose their student status,” Khan says.” When it comes to young people in university or college, . Some young women I spoke with were told to “just leave” their relationship since they weren’t marriedfelt that existing domestic violence supports—hotlines, shelters or programs—didn’t represent their demographic.
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