; Whereas youth who are LGBT are 120 percent more likely to experience homelessness than their non-LGBT counterparts and are likely to lack access to health care and develop stress-related disorders; Whereas youth who identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual are over 4 times more likely to attempt suicide compared to their heterosexual counterparts and transgender youth are over 5 times more likely to attempt suicide than their cisgender counterparts; Whereas homophobia, transphobia, and biphobia are associated with minority stress that may underlie sexual behaviors that can increase the risk of HIV and AIDS transmission, and also create additional barriers for LGBT individuals to access prevention and treatment for HIV and AIDS; Whereas, the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey, a study of 27,715 transgender adults, found that 77 percent of those who were out or perceived as transgender in K–12 were harassed, physically or sexually assaulted, or faced other forms of mistreatment because of being transgender, and nearly 1 in 5 (17 percent) were forced to leave a school because of the severity of mistreatment that they faced; Whereas the Center for American Progress found 8 percent of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer survey respondents and 29 percent of transgender respondents reported a doctor refused to see them because of their actual or perceived LGBT status and LGBT patients who experienced discrimination were nearly 7 times more likely than those who had not to avoid going to a doctor; Whereas LGBT adults are over twice as likely to be uninsured than their non-LGBT counterparts and LGBT adults, particularly bisexual men and women, are more likely to experience poverty; Whereas 68 countries still criminalize homosexuality, and LGBT people in these countries face violence, increased discrimination, and blackmail