Answer To: Issue Paper Choose a current political controversy. An appropriate topic is one which is currently...
Sunabh answered on Sep 13 2021
2
ISSUE PAPER
LGBTQ RIGHTS
Table of Contents
Annotated Bibliography 3
Introduction 5
Political Controversies related to LGBTQ Rights 5
Justification for being on Political Agenda 6
History and Current Action on the Issue 7
Arguments in context of LGBTQ Rights 8
Conclusion 10
Bibliography 11
Annotated Bibliography
Source 1: Elze, Diane E. "The Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: A Trauma-Informed and Human Rights Perspective." In Trauma and Human Rights, pp. 179-206. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2019.
This paper discusses the adverse condition as well as childhood experiences that LGBTQ individuals may have to suffer from their childhood to adulthood. This paper also discusses the issue of human right violation against LGBTQ in USA.
Source 2: White, Arielle E., Julia Moeller, Zorana Ivcevic, Marc A. Brackett, and Robin Stern. "LGBTQ adolescents’ positive and negative emotions and experiences in US high schools." Sex Roles 79, no. 9-10 (2018): 594-608.
This paper discusses the school environment as well as perspectives with respect to the LGBTQ students. Further, positive as well as negative emotions faced by LGBTQ students have been discussed.
Source 3: Cramer, Ryan, Sarah Hexem, Archana LaPollo, Kendra M. Cuffe, Harrell W. Chesson, and Jami S. Leichliter. "State and local policies related to sexual orientation in the United States." Journal of public health policy 38, no. 1 (2017): 58-79.
This article analysed state as well as local policies related to various LGBTQ public policies. Further, effectiveness of these policies were analysed by the authors based upon the data collected from 50 states of U.S.
Source 4: Levy, Brian L., and Denise L. Levy. "When love meets hate: The relationship between state policies on gay and lesbian rights and hate crime incidence." Social science research 61 (2017): 142-159.
Effect of special rights or policies and hatred from the society has been discusses under this paper. Further, the authors also discussed the issue of increased crime due to increased hatred for LGBTQ individuals, as a result of special government policies.
Source 5: Abreu, Roberto L., Adriana G. McEachern, and Maureen C. Kenny. "Myths and Misconceptions about LGBTQ Youth: School Counselors' Role in Advocacy." Journal of School Counseling 15, no. 8 (2017): n8.
This paper discusses the misconceptions as well as myths that LGBTQ students may have or may develop regarding their identity while studying at school. Further, role of school counsellors have also been discusses with respect to debunking of these issues.
Source 6: Tremblay, Manon, and David Paternotte, Eds. The Ashgate research companion to lesbian and gay activism. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2015.
This chapter raises the question related to prevalent LGBTQ political policies and they have been understood with respect to tools of social science instead of being a philosophical or cultural concept for policy makers, which may focus upon identity or morality.
Introduction
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) community has always been considered as an excluded part of the society and this exclusion may be solely based upon their lifestyle as well as sexual preferences. These communities had always been downsized by the society and therefore, in response to the same U.S, government had implied some reforms as well policies however, they were never fully implemented. Moreover, the provisions suggested with respect to the implementation of LGBTQ rights have also never been fully recruited. This report addresses the issue related to LGBTQ rights as well as the requirement for the government to adopt a policy related to this.
Political Controversies related to LGBTQ Rights
It has been observed that most of Americans irrespective of the age groups or any other categorization, oppose the discrimination against LGBTQ people and most of them may have already considered it as an illegal entity. However, the federal laws in U.S have not legally banned the discrimination against these communities and there are no such laws that can help to defy this discrimination[footnoteRef:1]. Further, it may be necessary to consider that the discrimination against LGBT has been observed to prevail since childhood and therefore, children during their schooling starts to face this issue. [1: Elze, Diane E. "The Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: A Trauma-Informed and Human Rights Perspective." In Trauma and Human Rights, pp. 179-206. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2019]
Because of this, they may have some negative feelings and thoughts such as suicide. Moreover, human rights of these individuals could be considered as the most violated...