How are the LGBT discriminated against?

Question

i can't think of any discrimination against people who are LGBT. but there are many who insist there's a discimination and subordination against LGBT. please tell me how they're disciriminated against? examples will be great.

Answer 1

-can't get married

-can't adopt

-can't give blood, because blood centers assume we all have aids...

-can get fired for being glbt

-have been denied healthcare

-have been beaten or killed for being g*y.

That's just the stuff I can think off the top of my head.  There's PLENTY more.

Answer 2

um. we can't get married. people beat us up for being g*y/trans/bi. we can get fired/not hired because we're g*y/trans/bi. our partners can't see us in the hospital if we're sick, because they aren't legally our spouses. etc.

Answer 3

Two words: Fred Phelps.

Answer 4

I think you should read up on people like Mathew Shepard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_She...

These kinds of g*y bashings happen every day.

As well we are denied rights given to heterosexual couples such as being able to see your loved one when they are in the hospital.

Even more there are a legion of holy rollers who are hypocrites. They say that you cannot pick and choose which parts of the bible to follow yet they do that themselves. The bible, as well as condemning homosexuality, also condemns those who eat shellfish, those who wear clothes of two different threads, those who plant to different crops side by side.

That is how we are discriminated against.

Answer 5

If someone does not disclose their sexual orientation to their employer and is later found out to be g*y, they can legally be fired for no other reason than being g*y.

If a same s*x couple does everything legally possible to ensure recognition of their partnership in case of a medical emergency, hospitals will still refuse to recognize their partnership.

When a partner in a same s*x relationship dies, the remaining partner does not receive the same treatment that they would if they were an opposite s*x partner.

Acting upon the request of the Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States House of Representatives, The General Accounting Office identified 1,049 benefits, rights, and privileges only offered through legal marriage... a marriage only offered to people of the opposite s*x.

Answer 6

Holy c**p, are you serious? Well I'm going to skip ranting about homosexual rights and go straight to the T part which is ALWAYS ignored! Now this topic, as a transman, I could ramble on about forever and ever. But I'll just let you do this on your own:

Read this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-bashi...

Look these people up:

Brandon Teena (also watch the documentary about him, Boys Don't Cry, it's pretty frickin sad)

Only NINE states in the so called land of the free have hate crime laws protecting us. This means that in forty-one states we can be fired, refused housing or insurance or social security, and many other things, just because of this birth defect we were born with.

Our lives are already a complete and total living h**l. Being born in the wrong body SUCKS a lot. It's expensive, and it makes all of your peers, co-workers, friends, and even family, abandon you. We have to go out into the world alone, full of self-loathing, confusion, depression, and anxiety, and only 50% of us make it out alive. Most of us crack and try to kill ourselves at least once before age 20.

transphobia awareness!

Answer 7

LGBT people are discriminated against all the time because i think people dont really get it and it is not exactly mainstream yet.  people are afraid of the unknown and are hiding behind the bible.

for instance, when you go somewhere and you see two women holding hands or two men kissing, watch the reactions of the people around you, then watch their reactions if a heterosexual couple behave in the same way.  i dont know if people just think that nobody sees them make those faces or what, but its obnoxious and hurtful, and im not even g*y!!

as for examples of discrimination, look up matthew shepard.  it will open your eyes not only to discrimination, but the first big hate crime that was documented and brought into the media for the LGBT community.

good for you for opening your eyes to this atrocity, it takes people like you who are willing to educate yourself on the effects of your behaviors on other people to stop the cycle.