Paper #1: Problem & Solution

JNissia Owens 5th period

Between 30 and 40 percent of youth who attempt suicide report to have a different sexual preference than that of heterosexuals. They like any other dejected person felt that what struggles they had faced proved too much for them to handle. Struggling to overcome constant ridicule from peers seems impossible, because relentless social rejection takes a toll on a persons emotional state. Members of the LGBT community wish to be viewed like any other human, not ridiculed or shunned for living the way they want to live. LGBT stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, these individuals have struggled since the beginning of time for peer acceptance, to feel normal and not dubbed an outcast by their peers. This happens in schools most often; parents teach their children not to socialize with people who seem to fall under the category, and frown upon them and their behavior thus manifests bullying. Parents persuade their children to hate these people because they hate themselves. Bullying then begins a chain reaction of hatred toward LGBT members: parent to child, child to LGBT member, and member to their inner self. This inner hate causes people to go over the edge, feel that they need to end their life to end the suffering. The variable of school administrator turning the other cheek toward the bullied LGBT members on campus plays a key factor as well. Some feel that interfering will just add fuel to the flame, causing the student(s) to bullying to increase. Turning the other cheek throws out the advocated idea of zero tolerance for bullies. Sometimes the parents will turn their cheeks as well thinking that itll turn out better for their child in the long run if the gay is beaten out of them. This would not happen if society accepted LGBT members as tantamount.

How would one feel if not allowed to help his country by ways of donating blood, or would if s/he could not join the army? Well, one could join the army, but s/he would have to hide his most conspicuous tendencies. For instance switching his hips (for males), or refraining from hitting on fellow female coworker during PT would seem difficult. Hiding them must have proved difficult up until September 20, 2011, when president Obama repealed the dont ask, dont tell (DADT) policy passed in late 1993. Although not on record, some believe President Obama supports homosexual and transgender rights to live amongst others without fear of violence. However, he should address the problem linked with homosexual males not able to donate blood in select organizations. They believe that homosexual male have a high risk of contracting HIV, which leads to the development of AIDS. However, these people cannot determine who may or may not donate blood. They want to help, either someone they know, or just some complete stranger who may need the blood they wish to donate. These blood-donating organizations kill people who may need blood transfusions to live by denying these fellow Americans the privileged of donating blood. That borderlines terrorism; an American should not turn down another American if said American wishes to help others. Unequal treatment toward LGBT members remains one of the problems keeping America from form unifying and completing the idea of utopia. As stated earlier, hatred and bullying begins in the home, in which all humans learn ethics amongst other life lessons; her family learned no different. Her parents raised her and her siblings in a God-fearing household whose tenants went to church almost every day of the week; they taught them not associate with homosexual individuals. Living appears almost impossible continuing under this form of parenting while attempting to create a view life for oneself. She coexists alongside a myriad of groups displaying different sexualities, she could not possibly

count them on her hands; but her parents dont always agree with her congenial behavior toward these groups. One of her seven closest friends, Jane, leads a lesbian lifestyle and dated her girlfriend for two years. She commented on a picture of the two on Janes Facebook page. As soon as she finished posting the comment, her father called her mother asking to speak with her. He berated her with a twenty-minute lecture telling her to never comment on another picture, status, or anything at all that had anything to do with Jane and her girlfriend and express that she un-friend her all together. That day, she blocked her father from her Facebook page, and hes sill blocked to this day because he still aims to force her into a mindset that she will never comprehend and comply to. The Bible says that she should love her neighbor as she loves herself; she strives to do that. However, her father argues that that does not apply to this situation because The Bible also says that if a man lies with a male as he does with a woman, both have committed and abomination, and the rule applies with women as well. Her parents and she have two different views regarding the subject of LGBT equality; her mother would not even help her with her paper. When she asked her to read over it, she read the first sentence, sat the sheet of paper on on the kitchen counter and went upstairs to her bedroom. Although she cannot change her parents views or ways associated with LGBT equality, she knows that she have to take a chance to show others that the LGBT members are people too. Whether at a blood drive, on a school campus, or even in the home homosexual, bisexual, and transgender individuals in society wish for, above all, respect. By showing respect, one might notice a significant drop in hate crimes, a possible spike in health care, and so much more; only one person starts the wave to make a difference. Who will that person be?