This article, “Widespread Discrimination Continues to Shape LGBT people’s Lives in Both Subtle and Significant Ways” written by Sejal Singh and Luara E. Durso on May 2, 2017 talks about how LGBT people have experienced discrimination in their life. LGBT people tend to be discriminated against in the workplace by not being promoted, getting fired, and not being hired. Even if those people do not get fired, they may get slight discriminated called unseen harms. For example, David, a gay man, could not be fired for being gay, but he did not get invited for his firm event because the event was for only “male”, means not including women or gay men.
Thus, those people are more likely to hide their sexual orientation and gender identity from coworkers. LGBT people often experience fear not only in the workplace, but also when it comes to their homes, educations, and medical care. Most of them seem to care about where they live in, their neighborhood, and community; about 19.1 percent of all LGBT people mentioned that they have made specific decisions where they live (Widespread discrimination). As for medical care, a doctor or other health care provider tend to refuse to see LGBT people because of their sexual orientation. “Transgender people of color and people with disabilities reported particularly high rates of discrimination from health care providers”(Widespread discrimination). This cause those people to avoid doctor’s office eventually.
According to our textbook, chapter 5.3 Inequality based on sexual orientation, it is said that LGBT people are also more likely to get HIV and AIDS than heterosexuals because of same sex by LGBT people, and what is worse those virus cause them to die. When they need medical care and go to hospital, they may get sub par care because some doctors and nurses are judgmental toward those people. Apart from medical care, LGBT people are more likely to suffer from physical and mental problems; “LGBT adults have higher rates than straight adults of other physical health problems and also of mental health problems”(Chapter 5.3 Inequality based on sexual orientation). These health and mental problems come from LGBT people’s stress that they experience from hob discrimination, physical harassment, lack of equal treatment and so on. Unfortunately, the number of states that prohibit job discrimination based on sex is low. In other words, there are still twenty nine states where it is legal to refuse to hire, fire, or refuse to promote LGBT people. Thus, it seems like it will take a long time to eliminate inequality toward LGBT people in every situation.
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