Discrimination and criminalization among LGBTQ individuals negatively affects one’s mental, physical, and emotional health. History shows the cruelty and brutality homosexuals have endured through discrimination. The resistance to acceptance brings various disadvantages to being in the LGBTQ community from lack of health care, policing, and job benefits to poor mental health. LGBTQ individuals have been discriminated against for hundreds of years. These individuals have never been fully accepted into society, either socially or legally, around the world. According to the text, “A History of LGBT Criminalization,” “Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have faced legal proscription for hundreds of years, initially under religious laws,…
Discrimination and criminalization among LGBTQ individuals negatively affects one’s mental, physical, and emotional health. History shows the cruelty and brutality homosexuals have endured through discrimination. The resistance to acceptance brings various disadvantages to being in the LGBTQ community from lack of health care, policing, and job benefits to poor mental health. DONE: LGBTQ individuals have been discriminated against for hundreds of years. These individuals have never been fully…
said Robert G. Ingersoll, an orator of United States during the Golden Age of Free Thought. Although the rights of Lesbian, Gay Bi-sexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) Canadians have advanced rapidly over the last decade, both societally and legally, there is still a long journey ahead on the road to equality. The issue of LGBTQ inequality and discrimination is one that is extremely important to Canadians because LGBTQ discrimination affects a significant portion of Canadian citizens.…
LGBTQ HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES. In today's world, access to quality healthcare is universally recognized as a fundamental human right, essential for maintaining individual well-being and fostering societal progress. However, despite this recognition, numerous barriers persist, impeding the ability of LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning) individuals to obtain the essential healthcare services they need. LGBTQ healthcare disparities represent a complex and multifaceted…
LGBTQ HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES. In today's world, access to quality healthcare is universally recognized as a fundamental human right, essential for maintaining individual well-being and fostering societal progress. However, despite this recognition, numerous barriers persist, impeding the ability of LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning) individuals to obtain the essential healthcare services they need. LGBTQ healthcare disparities represent a complex and multifaceted…
marriage. However, the struggles and issues that LGBTQ(XZ) people face are far from solved. People still discriminate against people in the LGBTQ(XZ) people are a part of our country whether everyone likes it or not, and we need to become more aware of the struggles that they are facing in order to end the inequality. Discrimination based on sexual orientation has been happening for a long period of time, and the main argument in support of discriminating against…
Cole (2007) notes that there is a greater incidence of prejudice against and mistreatment of LGBT youth. Both the school and many parents wish their children to be straight. This can be a contributing factor in the discrimination against LGBTQ adolescents or kids. He asserted that prejudice against young LGBT people might lead to both repression and a lack of natural growth. They would have social and emotional effects from this as well. The young have been subjected to a variety of forms of…
LGBTQ HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES. In today's world, access to quality healthcare is universally recognized as a fundamental human right, essential for maintaining individual well-being and fostering societal progress. However, despite this recognition, numerous barriers persist, impeding the ability of LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning) individuals to obtain the essential healthcare services they need. LGBTQ healthcare disparities represent a complex and multifaceted…
Discrimination, Mental Health, and Suicidal Ideation Among LGBTQ People of Color In this study done by Megan Sutter and Paul B. Perrin, the issue of mental illness and the discrimination against the LGBTQ (Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Questioning) community and people of color are being studied. The purpose for this is to discover the information on discrimination, mental illness, and suicidal ideation that the literature today is lacking. Also, to gain a better understanding on LGBTQ people…
The importance of the protection and equality of the LGBTQ community has come to the forefront in not only the country, but in our own school systems over the past few years. The rights and protections of these individuals began to increase under laws created by the Obama Administration. However, the new Trump administration has began to threaten these rights by taking back the protection of transgender students by revoking their right to use restrooms that match their gender identity. The Trump…