Only four states in America have laws banning “conversion therapy”, a dangerous practice where parents bring their children to be tortured and shocked into denying their sexual orientation or gender identity. Practices like conversion therapy are very harmful to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community. LGBT people are mistreated in every aspect of their lives, and they still try to get equal treatment. LGBT people are constantly being attacked and kicked out of shops and restaurants and even their own homes. The discrimination, poor treatment, and lack of rights the LGBT people of America face is a problem that needs to be fixed.
LGBT people face discrimination and othering, a way of speaking about someone or a group as…show more content… In Utah and Arizona, teachers are not allowed to show homosexuality in a positive light. Arizona state legislature has even decided that telling children there are “safe methods of homosexual sex” is inappropriate, which means LGBT teens in those states will grow up terrified. Alabama and Texas require sex education classes to emphasise that homosexuality is not “an acceptable lifestyle”. Alabama and Texas also have children taught that “homosexuality is a criminal offense” (Abdullah). None of these things are an okay way to teach children. There are little LGBT children growing up scared of themselves because of these education systems based in hate. A school in Massachusetts took back its job offer after Matthew Barrett put his husband as his emergency contact (Mendoza). Apparently that school didn’t want any gay teachers. On March 5th, 2008, a man named Joseph Biederman killed a gay man in his own home. In court, the Illinois jury accepted that Biedermann needed to stab a man 61 times to stop his unwanted sexual advances that may or may not have even happened (Rowe). That case is one of many hate crimes against the LGBT community. From January 2008 to November 20th, 2013, 1,337 transgender people were murdered. In 2013 alone, 238 transgender people were murdered (Vidal). Those people were killed just for existing as themselves. “The FBI reported 7,755 hate crime incidents in 1998 and 7,624 in 2007...That is nearly one hate crime every hour of every day over a decade” (Justice
