The Abuse Of The LGBTQ Community

While the LGBTQ community has become more accepted in our society. There are still problems that they deal with especially in the justice system. In the United States, judicial system, the LGBTQ community is in danger of being sexual, physical, and mentally abused, and receive discrimination in the way they are sentenced and how they are treated while in prison. and this happens to all ages in the community mostly because people legally do not agree with the way they choose to live or present themselves. The LGBTQ community has gone through a lot of turmoil since the beginning. They have been treated unfairly and have received discrimination. Most people believe that the way they live is a sin and that they should be punished or not deserve the same rights as everyone else. People just seem to not like them because of who they are and what they do. Although it has gotten better especially since the supreme court legalized gay marriage in 2015.
Obviously, everyone hears about the abuse that happens …show more content…
Due to them being in solitary confinement 70% of them have been diagnosed and 46% of them do not receive therapy. Most of the inmates don’t have access to any medications and if they do 30% of them are forced to take medication. That falls on the category of the abuse they suffer; their whole mental health is in danger and they don’t do anything about it.
The LGBTQ community that is in prison, are subjected to physical, mental and sexual abuse. From the abuse, they endure they end up with life time trauma and sometimes develop a mental illness. They are treated unfairly by the way they are sentenced, and the way they live in prison. They end up in solitary confinement sometimes just because they choose to live a certain way. This needs to be put to rest they deserve the same fairness that everyone else in prison should be treated. Even though it’s not a great place to be they deserve