Content Warning: Suicide

Guest post by Green

1. 1. “Several parents have said they no longer want to send their children here or donate to the school.” – Jeffery R. Holland, speech from the 2021 University Conference
      • 1a. several (/ˈsɛv(ə)r(ə)l/): more than two, but not many. (Oxford languages dictionary)
   2. The number of students enrolled at BYU in 2020, according to College Tuition Compare is 34,499.
   3.  5% of the population are homosexual: “According to Michael Bailey, professor of psychology at Northwestern University, Lisa Diamond, professor of human development at the University of Utah, and others, we learn that close to 95% of individuals can expect to be primarily attracted to individuals of the opposite sex. We also know that most males and about half of females who are attracted to individuals of the same sex have been exclusively that way since they sexually matured and are not likely to change who they are primarily attracted to.” –Jason S. Carroll, Chelom Leavitt, Dean M. Busby, Laura M. Padilla-Walker, A Better Way to Teach Kids about Sex Deseret Book, 2018, p 432
      • 3a. Five percent of the student population at BYU is 1,174 students.
   4. The percentage of the population who are intersex, according to Amnesty international: 1.7% (or the roughly the same percentage of redheads in the general population)
      • 4a. One point seven percent of the student population at BYU is 586 students.
   5. International transgender statistics are harder to come by; however, it is estimated that within the US, six tenths of a percent (0.06) of the adult U.S. population identify as transgender.
      • 5a. Point six tenths of a percent (0.06) of the student population at BYU is 20 students.

      I rounded down in all of these numbers. With that in mind, conservatively speaking, Holland’s words personally, viciously, harmfully targeted five percent of the BYU student population, or 1,780 students. These numbers do NOT include sexually fluid individuals or other sexual minorities, but you get the point. Or at least I hope you do.

   6. In 2020, the Trevor project found that forty percent of LGBTQI youth “seriously considered” suicide in the past year. This does not include those who suicided.
      • 6a. Again, with conservative numbers, that means 712 students at BYU considered suicide because they are LGBTQI.

712 students were directly hit by your musket fire. They are bleeding. Your musket was so finely and purposely powdered that the fire from rang throughout the  global church, hitting far more than only the BYU student population. The bullets stung no less, we are bleeding. If you prick us, do we not bleed?

“Several” parents no longer want to donate to BYU. More than two, but not many.

Thus, in his talk, Holland clearly stated that these “several” donors were more important than the already-suicidal 712 students at BYU. Money is more important than the ones who have already suicided.

Money is more important than those 712.

Just to be clear.