Discrimination is all around us people always judge others by what they hear or see befor getting to even know the person. None do this act more frequently and more harshly than teenagers. In high school people are always being judged and judging other, mainly because that is the way people work to decide what we think we are going to like. Because of this teen's will constantly try to change who they are to not have people single them out, since being an outcast in high school can make it a difficult expirence, especially since some people will point out and make fun of you for those things about you that make you different, this can be because we tend to fear what we don't know. There are many reasons we can dicriminate someone. Religious believes being one of them.
When a physical therapist paid a home visit to ABilly Jones-Hennin after a back operation, one element of the “treatment” harked back to an era he thought he had left behind decades ago.
“He took it upon himself to decide to pray for me,” said Jones-Hennin, 71, a qualitative researcher who identifies as bisexual and has been in a relationship with a man for 35 years. “He wanted to clear the demons out of me and my partner and started doing this ‘hell and damnation’ about homosexuality.”
The Shaw resident lived through the Stonewall era and resides in one of the nation’s most gay-friendly cities. Furious, he ordered the therapist out and complained to the agency that sent him. But older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, including those among the first to come out as a political and social force, are increasingly apprehensive about encountering discrimination as they grow older and more dependent on strangers for care.
