scholarly journals Medical Malfunction: How Health Administrators can Become More Receptive to the LGBT Community

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-86
Author(s):  
Anthony Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Lgbt Community ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Increase Productivity ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Health Administrators

What companies have begun to see over the past few years is the slow destruction of the metaphorical closet the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community has been confined to for the past century.  Now that the federal government has taken a proactive stance against discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation and gender identity, it will be up to health administrators to implement their own policies that will assist employees and management in being more receptive to the needs of their LGBT workers.  Here, you will find several procedures and strategies that can be put into practice by hospitals and clinics that make for a much more sensitive work environment. Combining these strategies into the culture of the workplace will increase productivity and decrease employee conflict and ostracizing among LGBT employees.

Introducing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) and Gender Identity Issues in a Medical Humanities Module

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
P. Ravi Shankar ◽  
Christopher Rose
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Sexual Attraction ◽  
Lgbt Issues ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Pluralistic Societies ◽  
Lgbt Community ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
And Gender

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) are ways of referring to someone's sexual orientation/preferences; gaining a better understanding as to how best serve the needs of the LGBT community are becoming increasingly important in medical education. While nations (especially developing ones) are making efforts to become more pluralistic societies that uphold and honor the rights of all their citizenry, members of the LGBT community continue to face hostility and violence. These factors cause many members of the LGBT community to be wary about identifying their sexual orientation. Curricular interventions to address LGBT issues are becoming increasingly common. The LGBT community faces a number of challenges and disparities in accessing healthcare. The authors facilitate a medical humanities (MH) module at the Xavier University School of Medicine, Aruba.. Small group, activity-based learning strategies are widely used during the module. Literature, case scenarios, paintings and role-plays are used to explore different aspects of MH. In this manuscript role-plays serve as vehicles to introduce LGBT issues to medical students during the module. The process of debriefing the role-play including students' comments are briefly discussed. One scenario deals with a young girl forced to become a worker in the sex trade, another contends with a night club owner who is diagnosed as HIV positive, a third situation portrays a young woman with a same gender life partner suffering from terminal cancer, the fourth situation explores the difficulties a female student faces when she reveals a sexual attraction for a same sex classmate. The role-plays serve to introduce students to an initial understanding of some of the issues faced by members of the LGBT community and an opportunity to put themselves in the position of a LGBT individual.

Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Equality in Hong Kong: Rights, Resistance, and Possibilities for Reform

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-155
Author(s):  
Amy BARROW
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Parental Concern ◽  
Lgbt Community ◽  
The Face ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Research Interviews ◽  
And Gender

AbstractThis article explores the implications of an absence of anti-discrimination legislation on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in Hong Kong. Strategic litigation has played an important role in securing legal protections for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community in the face of resistance from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government, as well as religious and parental concern groups. Despite a growing body of evidence which outlines the self-reported daily discrimination experienced by LGBT individuals, the HKSAR government has resisted calls to adopt anti-discrimination legislation on the grounds of SOGI, focusing instead on self-regulation and education. Grounded in qualitative research interviews examining the feasibility of adopting anti-discrimination legislation on the grounds of SOGI in Hong Kong, this article explores the current legal landscape for LGBT rights, resistance, and possibilities for reform.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Sosiologis Komunitas Lesbian Gay Biseksual Dan Transgender Ditinjau Dalam Etika Kristen

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 331-356
Author(s):  
Ekker Saogo
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Natural Behavior ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Clear Separation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Lgbt Community ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Lgbt People

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) in the past was something deviant, but nowadays it has become a trend that is even considered natural by many people. This of course has a sociological impact. There is a view that says that the behavior of LGBT people is a biological natural behavior, so it needs to be accepted as something that cannot be changed. Some theories agree that LGBT behavior is influenced by environmental, parenting, and economic factors so that there are pros and cons for LGBT people. This study aims to see the sociological influence of the LGBT community by using a literature review. The results of the study show that LGBT is contrary to the truth of God's creation, namely the clear separation of sex, namely male and female. Also, this is contrary to the design of marriage that God built, namely heterosexuality and monogamy.

scholarly journals LGBT Taxpayers: A Collision of 'Others'

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony C. Infanti
Keyword(s):  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Tax Law ◽  
Sex Reassignment Surgery ◽  
Medical Expense ◽  
Lgbt Community ◽  
American Law ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
American Society ◽  
Point Of Intersection

13 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 1 (2012)In this essay prepared for a symposium on the intersection of tax law with gender and sexuality, I explore the violent collision of these two concepts - or, more appropriately, these two "others." I begin my exploration of this collision of "others" by first explaining how the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community is a marginalized "other" in American society while, in contrast, tax is a privileged "other" in the realm of American law. Then, I turn to a close examination of a recent case, O'Donnabhain v. Commissioner, to illustrate the collision of the otherness of LGBT individuals with the otherness of tax. This case, which concerns the propriety of a transgender person's medical expense deduction for costs related to sex reassignment surgery, exemplifies the originary violence that is, as we speak, hewing the concepts of tax and sexual and gender identity to create a point of intersection at which these concepts can, in the future, again and again violently collide with each other.

LGBT People as a Relatively Politically Powerless Group

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Proctor
Keyword(s):  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Power Asymmetries ◽  
Lgbt Community ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Distribution Of Power ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Power And Powerlessness

As a group engaged in struggles for representation and inclusion, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people have vied for access to social and political power. There is little dispute that LGBT people are a relatively powerless group in society, but the extent to which the group is powerless is subject to debate in political science. Scholars disagree over the extent of powerlessness because the definition of power is contested among political scientists. As such, scholars have examined the powerlessness of LGBT people in varying ways and reached different conclusions about the success the group has had in achieving rights and visibility. LGBT powerlessness emerges from the group’s status as sexual and gender minorities. Over time, the boundaries that constitute the group have shifted in response to power asymmetries between LGBT people and cisgender, heterosexuals who control access to political and social institutions. In addition, power asymmetries have emerged within the LGBT community at the intersection of race, class, and gender as well as across subgroups of the acronym LGBT. Thus, the distribution of power and powerlessness vary within the group as well as between the group and dominant groups in society. These within- and across-group variations in power shape LGBT group boundaries, representation and public opinion, and voting behavior. The powerlessness of LGBT people must be understood in relation to these contingencies that define the group’s boundaries, and the ways in which power is distributed within and across groups.

scholarly journals Measuring Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the National Crime Victimization Survey

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 835-858 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer L. Truman ◽  
Rachel E. Morgan ◽  
Timothy Gilbert ◽  
Preeti Vaghela
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
National Level ◽  
National Crime Victimization Survey ◽  
Crime Victimization ◽  
Victimization Survey ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Lgbt People ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Population Counts

Abstract The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) collects information on nonfatal personal and property crimes both reported and not reported to police. As part of the ongoing redesign efforts for the NCVS, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) added sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) questions to the survey’s demographic section in July 2016. The inclusion of these measures will provide important national-level estimates of victimization among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and allow researchers to understand victimization risk and access to victim services. This article includes a discussion of the sexual orientation and gender identity measures that were added to the NCVS, and findings from the monitoring activities conducted during the first six months of data collection. In addition, population counts by sexual orientation and gender identity are estimated using July through December 2016 NCVS data.

scholarly journals Museologia e Comunidades LGBT: mapeamento de ações de superação das fobias à diversidade em museus e iniciativas comunitárias do globo

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
jean Batista ◽  
Tony Boita
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Gender Identity ◽  
Community Initiatives ◽  
Memory Mapping ◽  
Manifest Content ◽  
Lgbt Community ◽  
And Gender

This study seeks an overall view of the memory of the LGBT community (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) in museums and community initiatives, the project LGBT memory mapping and analyzes the main existing shares in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania. Through technical visits, interviews, non-directive (attendance or virtual), the magazine LGBT Memory publications, bibliographical researches and queries to official sites, mapping aims to indicate the limits and possibilities that are presented to museological field by including a minority present in every continent but still forgotten. This museological invisibility, favors forgetfulness and consequently strengthens phobias of sexual orientation and gender identity. By analyzing the preservation techniques, the exhibition content of each mapped proposal and its absence in large territories, looking to indicate strategies found in building a global LGBT memory, questioning, therefore, the democratization of memory and manifest content in museums, community initiatives or museological policies interested in winning civil rights and overcoming phobias to sexual / emotional diversity. Keywords: LGBT, Diversity, Social Museology

Defining sex-based discrimination among strife between the Justice Department and the EEOC

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 200-215
Author(s):  
Kelsey R Ruszkowski
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ◽  
Sex Discrimination ◽  
Title Vii ◽  
Justice Department ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Lgbt Community ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Supreme Court Rulings

In the last few decades, US Supreme Court rulings have made strides for the advancement of the LGBT community. However, this community has yet to enjoy equality in the workplace due to its exclusion from Title VII protection. This article details the recent conflict between the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Department of Justice in interpreting Title VII and how this conflict may make it difficult for the Supreme Court to reach a broad ruling concerning sex discrimination under Title VII. The EEOC relies on Supreme Court precedent concerning sex stereotyping to extend Title VII protection to sexual orientation while the Justice Department employs a textualist argument to support a narrow interpretation of sex. However, changing societal norms and advancing neuroscientific research support the conclusion that sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression is included under “sex” even when using textualism to interpret Title VII. Given that the Supreme Court is unlikely to defer to the EEOC’s interpretation, these arguments stemming from the social sciences may provide the support the Court needs to justify a decision to end employment discrimination against the LGBT community and gender nonconformists in a way that is consistent with the positions of both the EEOC and the Justice Department.

scholarly journals LG(BT) Families and Counting

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
D'Lane Compton
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
Lgbt Families ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Demographic Processes ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gay Families

Counting and understanding lesbian and gay families has gained attention over the last decade in popular culture, policy and academic research. Contentious debates on family values and same-sex marriage, increasing rates of social tolerance for homosexuality, and a greater general academic attention on issues of sexual orientation have partially spurred this attention in demographic analysis of lesbian and gay families. It is becoming increasingly clear that sexual orientation and gender identity have an effect on demographic processes and life outcomes. Although not perfect, practically speaking, drawing on nationally representative survey data has allowed us to illuminate the presence of same-sex families and their children.These findings have an iterative relationship with social change, public policy, and increasing tolerance for diversity. This article reviews the recent demographic contributions related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) families. Due to research concentrations, the content of this article mostly addresses what is known about gay and lesbian families, but also offers future directions to fill research voids including a call for greater attention to and visibility for families with bisexual and transgender members.

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