Sex Minority
Adolescent Essay
Sexual minority is a term to describe people that having sexual orientation, identity and behavior that is rarely appear in the norm or society or different from majority. Example of sexual minority included gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual (LGBT) and definitely the majority will be heterosexual. However, the trend is changing as more and more people aware and accepts itself as homosexual. The subtle change in the ratio of the 2 populations had been brought a great reformation on the worldview to the sexual minority. Nowadays, the point of view toward sexual minority was changed in some country as compared to totally restricted on homosexual behavior in past century. For example, some states such as Vermont, Lowa and Massachusetts in United States of America have accepted and allow the same sex couples to marry. But that is not the case for some conservative countries; anything will be seemed as illegal and violated the law when it related to homosexual. One of the countries that held this view is Malaysia. According to Sin-chew newspaper, one of Malaysia’s politicians has proposed a new law to prevent invasion of homosexual. He held the view that the homosexual person will ruin their national religious and humiliated the national constitution. Besides, there is some association that published some guideline that claim to identify the sexual orientation of people. One of the most famous guideline was published by Yayasan Guru Malaysia Bhd and Putrajaya Consultative Council of Parents and Teachers Associations. It listed some “symptoms” of gay and lesbian that claimed it could helped to identify homosexual person and use by teachers in primary school. However, what is the purpose of such a move? Classify people? So they can be dealt with and to prevent them from becoming gays and lesbians? Without a doubt the so-called “symptoms” are superficial and reflect a mind-set dependent on pseudo-science. The word “symptoms” explain everything,
Sexual minority is a term to describe people that having sexual orientation, identity and behavior that is rarely appear in the norm or society or different from majority. Example of sexual minority included gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual (LGBT) and definitely the majority will be heterosexual. However, the trend is changing as more and more people aware and accepts itself as homosexual. The subtle change in the ratio of the 2 populations had been brought a great reformation on the worldview to the sexual minority. Nowadays, the point of view toward sexual minority was changed in some country as compared to totally restricted on homosexual behavior in past century. For example, some states such as Vermont, Lowa and Massachusetts in United States of America have accepted and allow the same sex couples to marry. But that is not the case for some conservative countries; anything will be seemed as illegal and violated the law when it related to homosexual. One of the countries that held this view is Malaysia. According to Sin-chew newspaper, one of Malaysia’s politicians has proposed a new law to prevent invasion of homosexual. He held the view that the homosexual person will ruin their national religious and humiliated the national constitution. Besides, there is some association that published some guideline that claim to identify the sexual orientation of people. One of the most famous guideline was published by Yayasan Guru Malaysia Bhd and Putrajaya Consultative Council of Parents and Teachers Associations. It listed some “symptoms” of gay and lesbian that claimed it could helped to identify homosexual person and use by teachers in primary school. However, what is the purpose of such a move? Classify people? So they can be dealt with and to prevent them from becoming gays and lesbians? Without a doubt the so-called “symptoms” are superficial and reflect a mind-set dependent on pseudo-science. The word “symptoms” explain everything,
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