Problems Faced By Lgbt People In The Mainstream Society

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factors that mayreinforce homophobia

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moral, religious, and political beliefs of a dominant group.

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legality and homosexuality

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Gays protected under equality act 2010

Age if consent to sex lowered to 16

In 2001

Same sex marriage in 2014

Decriminalised in 1967

homesexuality is still illegal in many countries

can face death penalty, life in prison or stoning

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Heterosexim

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assumption that everyone is straight until proven otherwise

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LGBT stands for

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lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender uused to describe people who are not heterosexual

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Q is added to LGBT and means...

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Queer or Questioning

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Problems Faced by LGBT People:

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- face discrimination & exclusion

- suffer from discrimination and disadvantage in access to social protection schemes, such as healthcare and pensions.

hide sexuality to keep work

-leaving home, unemployment, ignored and isolated , lack of support from family and friends

-harassment in school

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health problems

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Bisexual—

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A person who is sexually attracted to both men and women or to a set of qualities that do notnecessarily line up with biological sex.

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Come out

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To publicly affirm one‘s homosexual identity, sometimes to one person in conversation, sometimesby an act that places one in the public eye. It is not a single event, but rather a lifelong process.

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Gay

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Used to describe people whose enduring physical, romantic, emotional, and/or spiritual attractions are topeople of the same sex.

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Gender Identity

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The gender that a person sees themselves as. This can include refusing to label oneself witha gender.

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Homophobia-

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A fear and hatred of LGBT individuals based on a lack of knowledge and cultural conditioning.It is also manifested as a fear of being or being perceived as gay, or the fear of one‘s own attraction to the samegende

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Queer-

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Once a derogatory term, the word ―queer‖ has been embraced by the GLBT community and is used as anumbrella term for all sexual minorities

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Sexual Orientation or Identity

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Emotional, physical, and/or sexual attraction to others, which may be towardsthe same sex (homosexual), the other sex (heterosexual), or both sexes (bisexual)

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Transphobia-

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a range of negative attitudes and feelings towards transsexuality and transsexualor transgender people, based on the expression of their internal gender identity.

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Transgender

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Refers to persons whose self-perception as male or female is different than their biological sexand who live full-time as the other sex.

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homelessness

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young people who come out are often kicked out

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housing

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people may refuse to home LGBT people . LGB people are more likely to live in private sectorhousing on short-term leases; some LGB people report problems in fi ndingaccommodation because of their sexual orientation.

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Barriers to LGBT healthcare

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Staff knowledge and understanding of LGBT health issues- GPs dont know what to ask them

Delayed attendance and reduced screening - attitudes, communication andknowledge – mean that LGB people delay seeking help for a healthproblem and are less likely to access routine health screening. This includesbreast and cervical screening for women, and presenting with early signsof prostate or anal cancer for men.

Delays in provision of care - For trans people, the biggest barriers include waiting times for surgeryfor gender reassignment and inappropriate general healthcare.

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Employment Equality (SexualOrientation) Regulations 2003

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These Regulations prevent employers refusing toemploy people because of their sexual identity;they also protect workers from direct abuse andhomophobia from colleagues.

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Gender Recognition Act 2004

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This legislation affords full legal recognition to atrans person’s acquired gender which does notdepend on medical treatment. The Act allowsnew birth certifi cates for trans people whichrecognise their new gender, and the right tomarry can no longer be refused

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Domestic Violence, Crime and VictimsAct 2004

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The Act recognises that same-sex couplesexperience domestic abuse.

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Health Inequalities

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- more likely to be medicated for depression (5x)

- more likely to selfgarm (2.5)

-more at risk of HIV , gonorrhoea and syphilis