A recent study composed of
44,000 high school students over a
seven year period found a good reason why more teens, especially girls, have increased risk of suicide
[1.1]. The study was an analysis of CDC test results of teens in the United States from 2015 to 2021 called the YRBSS (Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System)
[1.2]. This testing is the same kind I remember taking decades ago when I was in high school. The questions evaluated risky behaviors like alcohol and drug use, sexuality, and physical and mental health to study and identify harmful behaviors and attitudes. The recent analysis found that teenagers’ thoughts of committing suicide increased by about 6 percentage in girls and less for boys, and also saw a very concerning reason why girls, especially, had very high thoughts of suicide.
Researchers found that more increased suicidal thoughts linked to more people identifying as LGBTQ+, and in girls, the risk of suicide was much higher than boys. For 2021, the data showed that 48% of females who identified themselves as LGBTQ+ considered suicide when it was 20% for heterosexual girls. Neither number is good when one-fifth (20%) to half of teen girls are thinking about suicide; it implies there are definitely widespread social problems that have to do with more than sexual identity.
Some of the high numbers can be attributed to COVID-19 Pandemic related depression and stress. However, the pandemic started in 2020 while the increasing numbers for suicide risk began in 2015. But furthermore, the researchers found the larger suicide risk in girls was very likely because the number of them identifying as gay or non-heterosexual increased greatly, more than doubling from 2015 (15%) to 2021 (34%). Teen males on the other hand increased LGBTQ+ identity and suicidal thoughts, too, but more modestly, with 6% identifying as LGBTQ+ in 2015 and 9% in 2021. That is still nearing double the number, which is very similar to girls.
Why should the LGBTQ+ population be increasing so much, especially in females? It does not make sense biologically that girls are simply being born gay at double the rate. There might be environmental factors, or at least, that’s where scientists look – biology and environment, and they did note that the increased public discussions of LGBTQ+ issues, especially in public schools, could be a contributing factor. However, simply discussing LGBTQ+ issues usually does not change a person’s innate attraction to other sexes. More and more children are actually feeling they are sexually attracted to same-sex individuals, to both males and females, or they genuinely feel that they are the opposite sex as the one they were born (transgender). Such feelings of attraction or gender dysphoria are not learned for most people, but come from within the person. This is why many people say they were “just born gay.”
Though I agree with many conservatives that teaching young children about sexual identity and what is acceptable sexual identity can “indoctrinate” or “brainwash” them into believing they are LGBTQ+ when they aren’t. That isn’t the whole picture, but it is something for parents to be concerned about, and why I would remove inappropriate sexuality teaching from schools. Children and the impressionable do and will change their identities to align with role models they see, even unacceptable ones. They will copy behavior, but it is not always the case that they are truly LGBTQ+. I will explain why soon.
Role models and public teaching that being gay is OK, is not the only problem. Most people simply don’t turn LGBTQ+ because they think it is OK. It is those that have internal LGBTQ+ urges or conflicts that will easily change their identity and say they are LGBTQ+. There is no sense in truly identifying as gay or queer, and consequently consider suicide because of it, unless there are real sexual motivations or urges that they are having a hard time controlling, like having attraction to the same sex.
For the ones who don’t have those intense homosexual urges, the ones who simply choose to copy role models, they basically choose their identity because they may have some attraction to the same sex or some gender dysphoria, but their urges are minor and under control. However, the consequences of choosing a new LGBTQ+ identity simply because they think it’s ok or normal is just as detrimental as being “born gay.” If they participate in LGBTQ+ behaviors, then the sins involved in that can actually make the person become homosexual, though they did not start out that way.
This is a difficult topic to discuss without hurting peoples’ feelings, but the plain truth is, LGBTQ+ sins are like all other sins. Those who live in them will be cursed by them and some of those curses (judgments from God) are to become molded and controlled by them, just like a chronic thief finds it hard to stop stealing or the promiscuous man or woman finds it hard to live long without having sex. Likewise, atheists and spreaders of false teachings and lies are cursed similarly; they get cursed with spiritual blindness so that they reject much valid truth and evidence that contradicts them. Addictions (a form of curse or judgment) are also a reality for those who let their sins control them. Sexual addictions are no less common than addictions of any other kind.
So for the ones who weren’t truly gay in the beginning but allow unnatural urges to be acted upon because they were taught it is fine, can end up with the same problems the “born gay” have – intense and very hard to control LGBTQ+ urges. It's a reason why many believers are rightly afraid of indoctrinating children into becoming gay. However, as I said, most people won’t simply become homosexuals because they are exposed to them or taught LGBTQ+ urges are normal. There needs to be that internal urge, which people are usually born with.
That is something that refutes researchers who think that the current generation of people might not have changed from previous generations because people are simply acknowledging they must be LGBTQ+ more because of greater social acceptance. However, if you think about the latest numbers of teen girls identifying as LGBTQ+ (34%), it is absurd to think that a full one-third of women throughout history were lesbian or gay. There would have been much historical proof if so many women were that way. Society would have been very different.
Other researchers think, somehow, for some reason, many more children are now being born gay. This is actually the correct reason, but it isn’t simply biology or environment, and it is not simply that all of these “gay” children in our latest generation are truly LGBTQ+. Researches can see the increased trend and so suggest more support and resources must got to nurture the LGBTQ+ population, but that is a strategy that does not address the root factors, and worse, it will be more harmful for our children’s futures because they are encouraged to embrace a lifestyle of greater sins.
What most people are missing are the spiritual factors, which certainly can and do change our children and future generations by having more and more be born with LGBTQ+ difficulties. I’ve talked much about the reality of generational curses
(see Practical Romance Matters and Practical Sex Matters for examples); they are real because I’ve seen the proof and I know God is no liar, He certainly does inflict punishment on generations for the sins of the parents (
“fathers” in scripture;
see Light Within for scripture and more about Generational Curses). So what we are seeing happen to children now very much has to do with what their parents did, especially for children who were simply "born gay."
This is something most people of God, even Conservatives, refuse to believe. “There’s no way we did anything to make our child gay!,” they’ll fume, but truly, this is what is happening to our children, even in the most devout believing communities. The sins people commit, especially ones that are consistently lived in, will bring judgments (curses) upon the entire family and descendants. Curses may vary, but when it comes to generational curses, it is often that the type of sin associated with a curse will be carried down to the next generations in the same types of curses.
For example, someone who used much divination and black magic will very likely curse their children with having or inheriting spirits of divination or sorcery and witchcraft, or someone who lived a life of thievery will likely pass down a spirit of thievery or dishonesty, someone who constantly took no action when a wrong was being committed in their presence will likely pass down a spirit of cowardice, even people living in Christian or Jewish false teachings are no different than those living in pagan spiritualism; they'll all likely pass down spirits of spiritualism, religious spirits, and spirits of arrogance (stubborn arrogance is a common trait of false teachers). Such demons do get inherited. If you speak with anyone experienced in dealing with spirits, they will say it is the truth. If your pastor or elder says otherwise, then they truly do not know what they speak of.
And so likewise, parents who live in sexual immorality will very likely pass down sexual spirits to their children as a generational curse. It is these spirits that people are born with that give them LGBTQ+ urges and leanings. I spoke of this recently in an update for
the LGBTQ+ section of Sex and Marriage. It is because of these dark spiritual influences that I said,
most people are not truly born gay. Their thoughts are being affected by sexual spirits and because most people assume all their thoughts are their own, they assume they must be homosexual or at least have some leanings or attraction for the same sex, like those I spoke of who have these leanings under control but then decide they are LGBTQ+ and choose to live that lifestyle.
Generational curses related to sexual immorality are big factors why many more girls are having those unnatural sexual urges now. Remember that teen girls who identified as LGBTQ+ more than doubled and they almost quadruple the number of boys identifying as LGBTQ+ (34% as opposed to 9%). How can that possibly be explained? It is a sorrowful view into society today, but I know how the world consumes sexual media. Sexual material, like
pornography, that depicts females engaging in sex is much more popular, especially with men, than material that depicts male homosexuality. Porn use itself is also very common, so a widespread, popular sexual fetish is unfortunately also cursing girls with more LGBTQ+ sexual curses than boys because their parent(s)' engage in sexual lusts. It speaks even more to the great harm that using pornography and other inappropriately lewd media has on our communities. It all needs to be thrown out of our homes and communities.
Even if children only start out with minor LGBTQ+ feelings
but don't consider themselves gay or different, if those urges are
accepted and acted upon, then it begins a very harmful spiral towards
living in more and more sin. All the lewd sexual media being pushed in
our communities hurts them even more because it does increase
acceptance and lust for sins. We cannot allow our children to move
towards acceptance of LGBTQ+ urges or any lusting. It
is better to tell them to completely reject any LGBTQ+ urges and other
sexual lusting, that those urges are not natural, and they are not truly
from oneself. The bad and incorrect strategy of embracing,
promoting, and nurturing LGBTQ+ identity goes in the wrong direction and
will lead people into worse consequences later on if they embrace a
homosexual lifestyle. Doing so is already showing great harm in that
more children are thinking about killing themselves because they think
they are gay and cannot change it.
And furthermore, accepting any sexual lusts, like shown in sexual media
and porn, is also already hurting society and our children like
nurturing LGBTQ+ urges are hurting them, because the unfortunate truth
is, the occurrence of rape being committed by children has become more
common and the rapists are getting younger and younger. I know of too
many testimonies of heinous sex crimes in many different countries being
perpetrated by children, usually teens. These kinds of crimes are often
hidden and unreported, so the ones you see being reported publicly are
just a portion of the terrible curses that are destroying the hope of a
better life for future generations. This is the price of liberal sin
upon the generations; more and more eyes full of adultery; cursed children (2 Peter 2:14).
The first step in that is to reject any thinking that their true self is LGBTQ+, but acknowledge that their thinking and behavior are being influenced by dark spiritual forces that can be resisted and conquered. It is no different than resisting and overcoming the forces associated with other sins, like lust for others needs to be overcome by someone who is married. If anyone needs my help in such things,
please contact me.
Some of the things I said may not connect with you or they may go against with what you believe, so I will give a piece of evidence for the LGBTQ+ generational curses people, even people of God, are unwittingly giving their children (
I talked about an intersex man from a devout Christian family in Sex and Marriage). These curses go with statistics I brought up in an
update for Practical Sex Matters that gave proof of why maternal mortality (death) has increased in recent decades. It clearly showed that the increase in number of births for unmarried women coincided directly with when maternal mortality started to increase. I said it was clear evidence that the sin of fornication (sex outside of marriage) is a causal factor for pregnant women dying more often.
What about the teen LGBTQ+ issues? The researchers pointed out large increases in LGBTQ+ identity and suicide risk beginning about 2015 and got much higher in 2021. When were teens aged 13 to 18 in 2021 born? It would be from 2003 to 2008. Take a look again at the chart of births to unmarried women below. 2003 to 2008 includes the most significant jumps in unwed births; that is, children born from their parents’ sins of fornication.
Not only does the chart support why women are dying more from pregnancy, as I talked about in
Practical Sex Matters, but it also supports why so many more children are being born with sexual identity difficulties or LGBTQ+ problems and urges. They’re suffering for the parents’ sins, which often include more than fornication (a reason why devout Christian families also have generational curses). It is a clear warning for the world to reverse track with sexual freedom, lusts, and promiscuity. I would have to say that sexual sins are among the most widespread in our communities now. They range from fornication to porn use to infidelity to lust consumed and shared in popular and social media, and our children are suffering much for it, not only by being cursed with sexual identity problems and dark urges, but a whole slew of other afflictions. I talked about that in
Practical Romance Matters and
Practical Sex Matters -
The biggest reason innocent children have serious suffering, like cancer, serious illness, abduction, and death, is because of their parents' sins. But spiritually naïve leaders and teachers, even among God's people, are making things worse by trying to nurture LGBTQ+, “safe sex,” and teaching very incorrectly about sins.
It's a touchy subject for many to shun LGBTQ+ lifestyles. Sometimes it is discriminatory, which we should also be sensitive to. We do not want to treat anyone unfairly, but must love and help each other and judge without partiality, all extensions of the Second Greatest Commandment to love one another. However, how we love and help certain issues can be completely opposite of embracing and supporting them. The complete well-being of our communities, including the LGBTQ+, is at stake, so I hope that all of you will realize how tactfully rejecting LGBTQ+ identities and moving those in them into much better spiritually healthy lives will be how all our communities can move into healing and blessing instead of more and more of the opposite we're seeing now.
And for the people of God, whom think they know all there is to know about sin and that they cannot possibly be hurting their children with their sins, then I will remind to treat reproof properly because it is the Lord’s discipline and wisdom; continue learning and correcting yourselves
(see God’s Alarm for more). May it be in the name of Mashiach Yeshua. Amen.
References
[1.1] Joseph Cimpian, Mollie McQuillan. "Teen girls are facing an increased risk of suicide − and stress related to sexual identity might be contributing to it". The Conversation. 2025 Feb. 10. Retrieved 2025 Feb. 11.
<https://theconversation.com/teen-girls-are-facing-an-increased-risk-of-suicide-and-stress-related-to-sexual-identity-might-be-contributing-to-it-247671>
[1.2] "Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)". CDC (Center for Disease Control). 2024 Jun. 14. Retrieved 2025 Feb. 11.
<https://www.cdc.gov/yrbs/about/index.html>
