evidence: LGBTQ people often lack a support system and are more likely to be fired or bullied, experience difficulties, and have a much higher suicide rate. I, for one, will not stand for it and I hope people will unite with me against this injustice. Certain LGBTQ organizations provide critical support services to the transgender community to help prevent suicide, and I’m determined to help them in doing this. When the president of my own record label, Peaceman Music, Laura Ford (formerly Lawrence Ford), informed me that 41 percent of all transgendered people attempt suicide, I decided they needed my help the most. [...] - LGBTQ kids are more than four times more likely to consider suicide than the general population - Violence against LGBTQ people is at a historic high - 41% of transgender people have attempted suicide (compared with 1.6% in the general population)