{"id":11844,"date":"2010-12-07T03:41:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T10:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11844"},"modified":"2010-12-07T03:41:58","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T10:41:58","slug":"lgb-teens-punished-more-by-authorities-than-straight-teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11844","title":{"rendered":"LGB Teens Punished More By Authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/12\/05\/AR2010120503852.html\">From <em>the Washington Post<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gay and lesbian teens in the United States are about 40 percent more likely than their straight peers to be punished by schools, police and the courts, according to a study published Monday, which finds that girls are especially at risk for unequal treatment. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The study, from Yale University [found] substantial disparities between gay and straight teens in school expulsions, arrests, convictions and police stops. The harsher approach is not explained by differences in misconduct, the study says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The most striking difference was for lesbian and bisexual girls, and they were two to three times as likely as girls with similar behavior to be punished,&#8221; said Kathryn Himmelstein, lead author of the study, published in the journal Pediatrics.<\/p>\n<p>Why the punishment gap exists is less clear.<\/p>\n<p>It could be that lesbian, gay and bisexual teens who got in trouble didn&#8217;t get the same breaks as other teens &#8211; say, for youthful age or self-defense, Himmelstein said. Or it could be that girls in particular were punished more often because of discomfort with or bias toward some who don&#8217;t fit stereotypes of femininity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the comments of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxturtlebulletin.com\/2010\/12\/06\/28264\">Box Turtle Bulletin<\/a>, Kat wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I see this result as being in line with other research, such as the finding that gender non-conforming women are more likely to be sexually harassed than those who present more femininely (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bakadesuyo.com\/are-feminine-or-un-feminine-women-more-likely?c=1\">link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d guess, like the lead author, that when police or other agents of authority \u201ceyeball\u201d people to see who\u2019s a troublemaker\/suspicious or whether or not they\u2019re worth being lenient towards that gender non-conforming appearance\/behavior can contribute to being seen as a less savory character.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The research doesn&#8217;t appear to have measured punishments of trans versus cis people, but I strongly suspect that a similar &#8220;extra punishment&#8221; effect applies to trans teenagers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Washington Post: Gay and lesbian teens in the United States are about 40 percent more likely than their straight peers to be punished by schools, police and the courts, according to a study published Monday, which finds that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11844\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lesbian-gay-bi-trans-and-queer-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}