evidence: LGBTQ+ youth experience greater rates of mental health issues and are more likely to consider and attempt suicide, a new survey from the Center for Disease Control (CDC), has found. [...] Dr. Kathleen Ethier, director of the CDC’s division of adolescent and school health, told ABC News that "Across all of those outcomes that we looked at, experience of violence, poor mental health and suicidal thoughts and behaviors, we do see this really significant disparity between LGBTQ+ young people and their cisgender and heterosexual peers." [...] The survey further found that 41% of LGBTQ+ youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year and one in five LGBTQ+ youth made a suicide attempt.