i won't spend much time on these statistics because robert mcgarry did a great job yesterday in his presentation, most of -- i'm not going ahead. i'm sorry, i should be -- there. that's all the statistics i just talked about. i'll remember now. um, robert did a great job yesterday of talking about these statistics. i will say that, um, there hasn't been a lot of data collected on lgbt people and in particular youth, and i'd like to just sort of give props to the obama administration for if many of their departments -- in many of their departments being real leaders in this area, beginning to collect those statistics which will give us the data to come up with programs and strategies that are appropriate for the degree of the problem. what little data we do have shows it's clear enough, though, the negative impact of homophobia and transphobia means that lgbtqouth are at greater risk of dropping out of school, and they experience depression, violence, harassment, substance abuse, homelessness, hiv infection and suicidal ideation at much higher rates than their heterosexual counterparts. towards t

um, i won't spend much time on these statistics, because robert mcgarry did great job yesterday in hisaudible] >> i'm not going ahead. i'm sorry. i should be -- there. that's all the statistics i just talked about. i'll remember now. robert did a great job yesterday of talking about the statistics. i will say that there hasn't been a lot of data collected on lgbt people, and in particular lgbt youths. and i'd like to just sort of give props to the obama administration, um, for in many of their departments being real leaders in this area beginning to collect those statistics which will give us the data to come up with programs and strategies that are appropriate for the degree of the problem. um, what little data we do have shows it's clear enough though, the negative impact of homophobia and transphobia means that lgbt youth is are at greater risk of dropping out of school, and they experience harassment, violence, homelessness, hiv infection and suicidal ideation at much higher rates than their heterosexual counterparts. towards the end of 2010, um, it was in this context that we have