ENTRY 8: LGBT Individuals Experience Discrimination When Seeking Healthcare
1. Summary of article – what is article about? (brief – do not tell the entire story)
The article by the Human Rights Watch shared how individuals who identify as LGBT face discrimination when seeking healthcare. The article told how newly proposed legislature by the Trump Administration would make it more available for healthcare professionals to turn down care to individuals based upon the carers personal beliefs. It is feared that this will cause discrimination to increase. The article also told how many States lack the legal "safety nets" to make sure that care is provided.
2. How does the story relate to oppression/discrimination?
This article tells statistics of many individuals who identify as LGBT being refused health care. The statistics stated that 8 percent of lesbian, gay, and bisexual respondents and 29 percent of transgender respondents reported that a healthcare provider had refused to see them because of their sexual orientation or gender identity in the past year. In this way they experienced discrimination.
3. Who is oppressed?
People who identify as LGBT.
4. Who is oppressing?
Healthcare providers are the ones presently oppressing. The Trump administration is also looking to pass legislation that would make discrimination more legally available.
5. How are they oppressed? What type of oppression/discrimination is involved (individual, organization, structural, make argument for other types)?
There is individual discrimination based on sexual and gender identity. This is set to be made more legally available by organization discrimination by the trump administration basing legislature that would make it more legal for such to take place.
6. Explore the significance in our society. What are the implications for this oppression? What does this say about the values of our society?
This report on discrimination shows that the United States is very split on the LGBT issue. It also shows that protection for one person's beliefs can cause others to be discriminated against. It is a glimpse into that there is a difficult settling in that must happen for LGBT people to have equal treatment. It says that people in the US have a long way to go towards treating people kindly and fairly.
7. What was your personal reaction? Explore thoroughly. What aspects(s) of your own socialization has led you to this reaction?
My personal reaction was one of shock. I don't agree with the lifestyle of LGBT individuals but I would never turn down an opportunity to help anyone, regardless of their identity in any regard. I was saddened to read that some people view their faith as giving them grounds to treat people unkindly. My faith and my study of such has led me to both not agree with the LGBT lifestyle and love and treat every person as my equal.
8. What did you learn?
I was not aware that medical professionals could refuse to give care on any grounds at all. I also saw the difficulty in gathering conclusive data on discrimination since asking a party whether they were discriminated against only reveals one side, not the oppressors' side. This must make it difficult to do scientific studies and such.
9. How do you think the media represents this story?
In an effort to be fair and look at the whole picture, I will state that the media that I have consumed on this subject did not tell the side of those refusing care to the LGBT individuals. Not that their refusal of care is moral or valid but that their side isn't heard. If actually unity is to take place I think both sides need to hear each other and come together, not shout at each other through the media.
10. What was your source?
I read this article from the website called Human Rights Watch. The article can be read by following this link: https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/07/23/us-lgbt-people-face-healthcare-barriers
The article by the Human Rights Watch shared how individuals who identify as LGBT face discrimination when seeking healthcare. The article told how newly proposed legislature by the Trump Administration would make it more available for healthcare professionals to turn down care to individuals based upon the carers personal beliefs. It is feared that this will cause discrimination to increase. The article also told how many States lack the legal "safety nets" to make sure that care is provided.
2. How does the story relate to oppression/discrimination?
This article tells statistics of many individuals who identify as LGBT being refused health care. The statistics stated that 8 percent of lesbian, gay, and bisexual respondents and 29 percent of transgender respondents reported that a healthcare provider had refused to see them because of their sexual orientation or gender identity in the past year. In this way they experienced discrimination.
3. Who is oppressed?
People who identify as LGBT.
4. Who is oppressing?
Healthcare providers are the ones presently oppressing. The Trump administration is also looking to pass legislation that would make discrimination more legally available.
5. How are they oppressed? What type of oppression/discrimination is involved (individual, organization, structural, make argument for other types)?
There is individual discrimination based on sexual and gender identity. This is set to be made more legally available by organization discrimination by the trump administration basing legislature that would make it more legal for such to take place.
6. Explore the significance in our society. What are the implications for this oppression? What does this say about the values of our society?
This report on discrimination shows that the United States is very split on the LGBT issue. It also shows that protection for one person's beliefs can cause others to be discriminated against. It is a glimpse into that there is a difficult settling in that must happen for LGBT people to have equal treatment. It says that people in the US have a long way to go towards treating people kindly and fairly.
7. What was your personal reaction? Explore thoroughly. What aspects(s) of your own socialization has led you to this reaction?
My personal reaction was one of shock. I don't agree with the lifestyle of LGBT individuals but I would never turn down an opportunity to help anyone, regardless of their identity in any regard. I was saddened to read that some people view their faith as giving them grounds to treat people unkindly. My faith and my study of such has led me to both not agree with the LGBT lifestyle and love and treat every person as my equal.
8. What did you learn?
I was not aware that medical professionals could refuse to give care on any grounds at all. I also saw the difficulty in gathering conclusive data on discrimination since asking a party whether they were discriminated against only reveals one side, not the oppressors' side. This must make it difficult to do scientific studies and such.
9. How do you think the media represents this story?
In an effort to be fair and look at the whole picture, I will state that the media that I have consumed on this subject did not tell the side of those refusing care to the LGBT individuals. Not that their refusal of care is moral or valid but that their side isn't heard. If actually unity is to take place I think both sides need to hear each other and come together, not shout at each other through the media.
10. What was your source?
I read this article from the website called Human Rights Watch. The article can be read by following this link: https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/07/23/us-lgbt-people-face-healthcare-barriers
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