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Zuleyca Ventura

Professor Rodrick

English 115

16 October 2019

Title IX

LGBTQIA is a community which consists of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender,

Queer, Intersex, and Asexual. However, LGBTQIA is a trend issue nowadays because many

people still get judged by it. LGBTQIA are individuals that live in fear of showing their true

identity to the world because they simply fear that society won’t accept them as who they truly

are and having a different sexual orientation. Many individuals having that different sexual

orientation shouldn’t be having to experience discrimination or receive negative behavior

regardless of how they look like because not all of us understand what others are going through.

LGBTQIA’s top issue towards them would be on to discrimination. Discrimination

towards to them is very unusual because the fact that many of them who are part of this

community are in fault of pursuing their career in the future and not only that, but a job for them

as well. Discrimination towards individuals who are gay, bisexual, lesbian, and transgender have

a big fear that they would have to overcome certain scenarios such as getting fired for being part

of LGBTQIA or because nowadays other people around them would just stare at them like they

don’t belong on this planet. According to Sutter, M, she stated on how 200 hundred LGBTQ

individuals got surveyed based on what their experience based on discrimination, racism, mental

health, etc. This shows that when reviewing all individuals who were a part of the community,
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they all felt that they wanted to go through some suicidal issues within the mental health they

already had which made it worse for them because of how they were treated. Within this

community I believe everyone should be treated the same because in my own world, I’ve seen

many individuals like them who would deal with Employment Discrimination. Employment

Discrimination would as well be a big issue towards to their community because I find that these

individuals want to be fit in and be a part like everyone else and try to find a job and earn to get a

living of their own, but it seems that most of these individuals would get fired straight from their

job because of their identities. The types of comments that LGBT youths would face as of right

now like, “I hate gays. They should be banned from this country. I can’t stand the sight of you.”

All this shows what they go through everyday and not only do they get these bad things at school

from other people, but as well from their families.

Being part of the LGBTQ community doesn’t mean that everything has to happen for the

worst. Being Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender doesn’t mean that you have to be apart

from what others want. Domestic Violence is just a stuck up with this community. As you can

see in movies, real life, and commercials these individuals would get the much violence they can

have throughout their entire lives. Having to get pushed around, hit, beaten down to the floor,

having to be called by ridiculous names is just terrible and having to put that much pressure on

them everyday wherever they go just makes it seem worse for them to do something terrible to

commit suicide, or to try to hurt themselves as much as they can take the pain. This article states

the different types of domestic violence that LGBTQ community face through, “ about 20%

experienced physical violence, 16% are threats and intimidations, 15% is when being verbally

harrassed, 4% is sexual violence.” This shows the many ways that these individuals would go

through everyday even when not expecting with what’s coming at them.
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Criminal Justice would be one to fight for especially within all of the LGBTQ

individuals. I believe the fact of criminal justice here is for these individuals to stop wanting to

be their true selves into the world, but wanting to do so would make them go into a bad situation

to not only themselves, but into their entire lives. According to Kevin L. Nadal, he states,

“Individuals who are LGBTQ identified are faced with the criminal justice system and within the

type of discrimination they face, as both perpetrators and victims of crime.” This shows that

these groups of people who keep identifying themselves as part of the LGBTQ community, with

the disrimination they keep facing, the more likely it is for them to get into the criminal justice

system and would make them put aside for criminal activity and would be put into prison.

This community just needs what they fight for which is acceptance. Acceptance towards

them is like wanting a rest into it or not wanting a change into what they are fighting for. Colleen

Curry states in her article within one of the issues towards the LGBTQ community, “Not only

are there individuals trying to make a living and trying to keep their lives together, but about

40% of homeless youth identify as part of the LGBTQ community who all got rejected by their

families.” This shows that them having to be able to live in the streets all alone at a very young

age means that the reason goes to their parents by not having to accept them for who they are and

who they want to be in their own lives. It seems bad and sad having these many youth children

ending up to be living on the streets when all they want is to be themselves and earn a living.

Overall, I believe that the LGBTQIA community should be treated differently. Rather

than being called other names. LGBTQIA shouldn’t feel bad everyday because of these people.

People who are straight should be more kind towards them because they don’t know what they

are going through in life. Just because the LGBTQIA have differences than straight people, that

doesn’t mean they don’t have the same achievements, goals, inspiration, and careers/dreams that
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all people want. Therefore, LGBTQIA should be treated equally and fair as such as what we

would want. One of my gay friends once told me, “Love is a human experience, not a political

statement” This means that no matter what type of gender or personality you are love can be

towards to anybody, but if love can be shared to only a specific gender then that means you or

whoever can be judged by loving others.

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Work Cited

William M. Julien, P.A. “ LGBTQ Workplace Discrimination Archives” 27 September

2019, https://www.attorneyjulien.com/blog/lgbt-workplace-discrimination/

Sutter, M., & Perrin, P. B. (2016). Discrimination, mental health, and suicidal ideation

among LGBTQ people of color. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 63(1), 98-105.

Nadal L. Kevin. (2013). LGBT issues in the criminal system. John Jay College of

Criminal Justice, City University of New York, Div. 44

Colleen Curry. (2017). 9 Battles the LGBT Community in the US is Still Fighting, Even

in 2017. Global Citizen.

Ncdav.org. (2018). Domestic Violence and the LGBTQ Community.

Gaell Jocelyn-Blackman. (2007). How are LGBT Youths Affected by Discrimination and

What can Schools do to Help? The Ugly Frightening Statistics(n.d.) City, University of New

York.