Sexual orientation change efforts

Violence is a global issue for women. LGBT women are more vulnerable to hate crime-related violence due to discrimination and marginalization related to their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Intimate partner violence is a significant issue. Approximately, 35% of women worldwide having experienced intimate partner violence and non-partner sexual violence within their lifetime (WHO, 2013). Women in same-gender relationships…

I carry a stigma with me every day. Mostly because to many people, part of who I am is either fake, confused, and even promiscuous. Identifying as bisexual has always been a dangerous label in society and even in the LGBTQ+ community. There is without doubt that people do not consider bisexuals a part of the spectrum of the aforementioned reasons and more. Bisexuals are their own ingroup within the larger supportive ingroup of the LGBTQ+ community. Even more complexly, I can argue that there are…

statistics of violence, discrimination, bullying, and inequality surrounding teens that are within the LGBTQIAP+ community. Outreach personnel that work with youth and have a background in Psychology plus Gender and Sexuality studies striving to create change are very important to the success of equality in our society. Micah Johnson was the previous Director of School Outreach at a non-profit organization that caters to LGBT youth in Charlotte, NC called Time Out Youth. Johnson has a…

thankful for because of feminism. I have hundreds of reasons why I needed feminism, and how I have become a better person because of it. Due to feminism, I have gained more confidence in a healthy body image, a greater understanding of my sister’s sexual orientation, and a greater moral compass. I would never want to go back to a world without feminism. Women had to stay home, clean, cook, smile, always be ready to “please” their hard working husbands. Women were supposed to have children, be…

Most of these topics were surprising and for the most part eye openers for many people in this class, like me. We discussed immigration, discrimination in the workplace, discrimination based on weight, race, gender, sexual orientation, tattoos, piercings, the LGBTQ community, sexual harassment, and racism. While having these discussions in class, I learned that in order to live amongst each other we have to be aware that everyone is different. We have to accept eachothers differences and learn…

magazine writer, Katy Steinmetz,mentions in her article, The Case for Allowing Transgender Athletes in Youth Sports, written in July of last year that “the Olympics and ninth-grade basketball need to be considered separately.” With consideration to the effort put forth and the rewards received, there is no way one could make a single rule to cover all of the transgender athletes in the entire world. It is simply just not possible for such a small blanket of rules to cover such a wide variety of…

There is a drawback from some homosexuals when it comes to publicizing their political agenda. Expressed by Hilderbrand, in “A Suitcase Full of Vaseline”, “Gay-rights movement, organized efforts to end the criminalization of homosexuality and protect the civil rights of homosexuals. While there was some organized activity on behalf of the rights of homosexuals from the mid-19th through the first half of the 20th cent., the modern gay-rights…

People are fear of change, and change is not always bad as people think it could be. For example, some would say that it could cause psychological problems that it isn’t natural; it is supposed to be a woman and a man they say that homosexuals wouldn’t be good parents. It is not just because of that, also; of religious reason people are against of homosexuals adopting children. Everyone should have the privilege to adopt a kid regardless…

abnormal and a sin. Having that as a base of understanding every time I thought something sexual about a woman scared me. So, I dated men. Even in middle school and high school when there were a lot of girls “experimenting” and claiming…

Gray Scenario Winter break was almost approaching at New High School as I received notification from all the teachers indicating which students were failing their grades. I started to make arrangement to meet individually with each student to discuss their grades and try to problem solve how to best help each student to raise their grades. The following days I started spending the majority of the time with some students. It was M.L.’s turns, he was a freshman and it was his first time being at…