How Does Physical Abuse Affect The Lgbt Community

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Physical abuse consist of using intentional force against another person. It can cause short or long term physical pain and injury. Since people tend to assume that physical violence only happens when a man hit a woman. Physical abuse affects the LGBT community just as much as everyone else.

One of the reasons that people do not know much about current physical abuse happening to LGBT people. Lies with its members not wanting to to attract a negative stigma to their community. While not realizing the harm they commit themselves by not reporting such abuse.
Because of the lack of reports of physical abuse in the LgBT community. Whenever an LGBT person reports being a victim of physical abuse, they seem to end up being helped by officers with

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