Homophobia

NOTE: This page is from the perspective of a homosexual male questioning about transitioning from male to female.

Homophobia is a real situation that happens both in real life and online. Homophobia is the hatred of LGBT community members. These kind of people for some reason cannot accept that homosexuality exists either because of religion or just because of bigotry. They think two people of the same gender kissing is disgusting and used offensive terms such as "trannie" (to describe transgenders), "f****t" (to describe anybody who is in the LGBT community.) As personally being homosexual, I find being in the LGBT community to be a good thing. Not being heterosexual or cisgender doesn't make you any less of a person but homophobic people treat LGBT community members like they're less than people. Two people of the same gender kissing is a beautiful thing. Homophobic people just comment on whatever a LGBT community member types and uses terms like "f****t" and offensively uses the term "gay". They treat us LGBT community members like we aren't human and are just aliens. It is comparable to racism or sexism because in all three of those people are treated with disrespect for being different. Just like with any other kind of troll, try to ignore their bigotry but try to report homophobia to moderators of a site as well. LGBT community members don't deserve the treatment they get.

~FalcoLombardi99

If you have experience with homophobia comment below.