Almost 30% of LGTBI people hide their orientation at work out of fear
The report "L'LGBTI-structural fòbia: discriminated against her in l'accés als drets socials»Prepared by the Observatory against Homophobia and presented at the Table of the Third Social Sector of Catalonia It exposes the situations of injustice that the group faces in various fields such as health, education, work, housing, administrations, registration and justice.
And it is that according to this report, half of the couples LGTBI they do not shake hands in public and 20% avoid certain places due to fear of discrimination. In fact, 42% of them claim to have experienced an episode of discrimination in the last year. In addition, 1 in 5 people surveyed has been physically or sexually attacked in the last five years and the levels of discrimination towards the group have increased, despite the fact that their visibility in different areas of social life has also increased.
In Catalonia, the 252 complaints received during the five years of validity of the 11 / 2014 about rights LGTBI, 53% are due to homophobia and 21% due to transphobia, according to data from the «First radiography of the LGTBI-fòbia in Catalonia»Made by the Generalitat de Catalunya in 2021.
Structural discrimination
La Taula of the Third Sector has urged all parliamentary forces to make a 'sanitary cordon»Against hate speech to combat discrimination against people LGTBI in access to social rights such as health, housing or work.
Francina alsina, president of this Kitchen which brings together more than 3.000 Catalan social entities, has stated that the LGBTophobia it is a problem that must be treated and corrected «from all the spheres in which the violations occur and from the institutions and structures of society that allow certain people to exercise aggression«.
«LGTBIphobia in the classroom is a reflection of what our society is«
Experts and third sector entities ask to deepen co-education and put more resources to tackle the problem. Eight out of ten high school students have witnessed insults LGTBI-phobic at some point and 12% admit to having launched them themselves. On the contrary, complaints of harassment based on sexual orientation, gender identity and / or expression represent only 2% of all those received each year by the Observatory against Homophobia.
The study highlights the problem of bullying, which increases absenteeism and decreases the performance of minors who suffer it. 17% of young victims of bullying try to kill themselves.
The data confirm the "invisibility" that LGTBI-phobia still suffers among children and adolescents, a problem that the entities of the Third Sector Table urge to face with more resources on the part of the administrations and, also, with profound changes in the how it is approached.
Discrimination in the healthcare system, housing and work
People in the community also continue to suffer discrimination in access to essential services, especially in the health system, where there are professionals who treat affective, sexual and gender diversity as an exception or even as a disease to be treated.
People LGBTI they also suffer discrimination when it comes to renting a property, in fact «housing is the third area with the most incidents, with 15% of cases showing discrimination, especially towards trans women«, Suárez has indicated.
In the workplace, 37% of trans people state that they have suffered discrimination during access to work and 27% claim to suffer it in the workplace. «Out of fear, almost 30% of LGTBI people hide their orientation at work«, Has emphasized the activist.
