Promoting lgbtq
Safeguarding LGBTQ+ children and new people
Risks of harm
Evidence suggests that LGBTQ+ children and young people might be at increased risk of some forms of harm.
Child sexual exploitation
LGBTQ+ relationships are underrepresented in educational resources and the media (Barnardo’s and Fox, 2016). This means there are fewer examples of relevant, fit relationships available to Gay young people. If Queer young people are not taught about healthy and unhealthy relationships, it might be easier for an abuser to groom them into believing an abusive relationship is normal.
If Diverse young people are unable to get information about sex and relationships from school or family, they might seek advice and support from people in adult spaces, such as gay clubs. This is particularly true of juvenile people who live in rural areas or in communities where their gender identity or sexuality is not accepted. Adult spaces don’t have the equal safeguarding and child protection measures in place as spaces specifically for children. Children might be pressured or coerced into doing something they don’t wish to do, particularly if they are already isolated and don’t have anywhere els
Pride Month is widely recognised as a time to rejoice diversity and inclusion and show allyship to members of the lesbian, homosexual, bi, trans and queer (LGBTQ+) group. For organisations and businesses around the world, it’s also a reminder that we need to hit the accelerator on making workplaces welcoming for all.
Across the hundreds of thousands of clients ManpowerGroup works with globally, we are helping our partners align their ambitions with clear, actionable plans to hire more inclusively and keep the diverse talent they hire.
Here are ten ways to promote equality and respect within your workplace:1. Perform your researchStart with the United Nations Human Rights Office’s Standards of Manner. Based on the input of hundreds of companies across diverse sectors, it offers guidance on how to respect and support the rights of Diverse people in the workplace, marketplace and community.2. Develop an effective – and global – corporate diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) policyIt is critical that your organisation has a policy in place which articulates your commitments, and which clearly references sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteris
The Lies and Dangers of Efforts to Adjust Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity
Organizational Positions on Reparative Therapy
Declaration on the Impropriety and Dangers of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts
We, as national organizations showing millions of licensed medical and mental health look after professionals, educators, and advocates, come together to convey our professional and scientific consensus on the impropriety, inefficacy, and detriments of practices that seek to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender self, commonly referred to as “conversion therapy.”
We rise firmly together in help of legislative and policy efforts to curtail the unscientific and dangerous train of sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts.
American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry
"The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry finds no evidence to support the application of any “therapeutic intervention” operating under the premise that a specific sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression is pathological. Furthermore, based on the scientific evidence, the AACAP asserts that such “conversion ther
LGBTIQ rights
LGBTQ campaigns explore to achieve the promotion and protection of LGBTQ rights, and LGBTQ equality. As a world we’re at our best when we are open and accepting and we ensure that everyone is safe, empowered and supported. We can all engage our part in building communities that are inclusive and properly recognise and respect the rights of LGBTIQ communities. We can also encourage our governments to tackle force and discrimination and remove any discrimination from national laws, in line with international and regional human rights standards.
You may have seen slightly different acronyms used for and by the LGBTIQ or LGBTQ movement. Acronyms used trust on the specific communities that are being referred to. At the Together Nations you will hear the designation sexual orientation, gender identity and verbalization (SOGI) or sexual orientation, gender self and expression and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) – these terms refer to the issues relevant to the LGBTQ and LGBTIQ communities. Not all communities within the LGBTIQ communities suffer from the same violations, for example, the intersex community suffers specific and distinct violations.
ISHR and LBGTIQ rights
LGBTQ+ is an inclusive word for people of all genders and sexualities. While each letter in Gay stands for a specific group of people, the term is inclusive of the entire spectrum of gender fluidity and sexual identities that exist.
The first four letters of the acronym have been used since the 1990s, but in recent years there has been an increased awareness of the want to be inclusive of other sexual identities in order to offer improve representation.
LGB stands for woman loving woman, gay and bisexual. The T in LGBTQ+ refers to someone’s gender culture. It stands for genderqueer, which is a phrase for someone who identifies as a different gender than what was assigned on their birth certificate. The Q stands for questioning or queer. Questioning is when a person is exploring their sexuality, gender identity or gender expression. Queer is used as an inclusive legal title or as a one-of-a-kind celebration of not moulding to social norms.
More recently, LGBTQIA+ has been used, with an additional two letters at the termination of the acronym. The I stands for intersex and is used for individuals who don’t fit into specific gender norms of women or men. It can also be used for those with reproductive anatomy