Gay bullying
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By Karen Ocamb, special to the Desert Sun
In the 1950s and early 1960s, being punched, shoved into lockers and toilet bowls, and organism called “sissy” were just a part of growing up. Even the wholesome TV show “Leave It to Beaver” had regular bullies Eddie Haskell and Lumpy Rutherford who learned some lesson in the end, only to go back in the next episode with some power scheme that involved running roughshod over Beaver. For Beaver and millions of boys like him, dealing with bullying was a rite of passage to manhood.
But now Eddie Haskell has moved into the Alabaster House and the moral sanctions against bullying imposed by a civilized world have vaporized. And LGBT kids know it. The night Donald Trump won the presidential election, the Trans Lifeline and the Trevor Project, a suicide prevention hotline for LGBT youth, reported receiving “a record number of calls” from those terrified about becoming easier targets for increased discrimination and abuse, according to Newsweek.com.
A December 2016 report by Human Rights Watch indicates that LGBT young people own good reason to be afraid. While noting that lawmakers and school administrators during the past 15
New CDC Statistics Shows LGBTQ Youth are More Likely to be Bullied Than Straight Cisgender Youth
by Madeleine Roberts •
CDC Releases National Youth Uncertainty Behavior Surveillance Results
Last week, the Centers for Disease Regulate and Prevention (CDC) released the national Youth Risk Deed Surveillance results for 2019. It’s evident from the national data that many LGBTQ young people continue to undergo higher health and suicide risks than their peers. This follows the equal trends present in an HRC examination of the 2015 and 2017 statistics -- LGBTQ students are more likely to experience victimization, violence and suicidality. In many areas of the information, transgender students are facing more disparities in 2019 than they were in 2017.
The data present that 43% of transgender youth own been bullied on school property. 29% of transgender youth, 21% of male lover and lesbian youth and 22% of bisexual youth include attempted suicide.
Since the YRBS began including data on sexual orientation in 2015 and gender persona in 2017, we’ve seen consistently that LGBTQ youth meet greater health disparities than their cisgender straight peers. This data co
What is homophobic bullying?
Homophobic bullying is behaviour or language which makes a youthful person feel unwelcome or marginalised because of their actual or perceived sexual orientation.
The main factors which influence whether or not a person is a target of homophobic bullying are:
- People perceive that you own a particular sexual orientation, because you fit lesbian, lgbtq+ or bisexual stereotypes. These stereotypes are based on a societal basis involving traditional gender roles or traits that are inaccurate. E.g.softly spoken boys or girls with concise hair.
How is homophobic bullying displayed?
Like all forms of bullying, homophobic bullying can occur in alternative ways such as emotional, verbal, physical or sexual.
Some of the more frequent forms of homophobic bullying include:
- Verbal bullying (being teased or called names, or having derogatory terms used to depict you, or dislike speech used against you)
- Being compared to LGBT celebrities / caricatures / characters that portray particular stereotypes of LGBT people
- Being ‘outed’ (the threat of creature exposed to your friends and family by them entity told that you are LGLBT even when you are not)
- Indirect bullying
LGBTQ+ Bullying
School can be challenging for any pupil, but many Gay young people face an alarming amount of bullying and harassment. Homophobic and biphobic bullying is where people are discriminated against and treated unfairly by other people because they are homosexual woman, gay, bisexual, trans or questioning or perceived to be. People who are not lesbian, queer , bisexual, trans or questioning can also experience homophobic and biphobic bullying if someone thinks that they are.
Transphobic bullying is where people are discriminated against and treated unfairly by other people because their gender identity doesn’t align with the sex they were assigned at birth or perhaps because they do not conform to stereotyped gender roles or ‘norms’.
(The above definition was taken from the LGBT Foundation )
Like all forms of bullying, homophobic bullying can be through name calling, spreading rumours, online bullying, physical, sexual or emotional abuse and can include:
- Making comments about a person’s gender or sexuality that deliberately makes them feel uncomfortable
- Calling a person names or needling them
- Hitting, kicking, punching or physically hurting them
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