Discrimination?
 

Have any of you ever been discriminated against for any reason?

Oh yes, I was nearly kicked out of my residence at university in connection with being a transsexual. See, at the beginning of the month I tried to kill myself, and the university in its wisdom saw that I was ridiculously stressed out and so decided to stress me out even further by suspending me from residence. Now, they kept on insisting that it wasn’t a “suspension”, but really, what else is being forbidden to move back into your room, especially for an indefinite amount of time and with no good reason?

Now then, when I went to residence to have this ridiculous crap cleared up I basically heard things like “It’s quite clear to us that with the whole transsexual thing you’re obviously sorting out a great deal of psychological and emotional issues, and we’re not quite sure if residence is the best place for you at this point in time,” or, in non-legalese “We think that transsexuals are loopy crazies and this ain’t no nut-house so pack your things tranny! You’re out the door!”

The other thing they brought up was the issue of bigotry from other residence kids. In my experience, not a single one of them gave a damn, especially not my room mate. Yet housing services insisted that there may very well be intolerance, and so for my own “best interest” I should be forced out. Kind of like how in WWII the Canadian government told the Japanese they sent to concentration camps that it was for “their own protection”.

I was going to try and stay in residence for spite, even though it was dirty there and I hated it, but then I just decided to leave on my own and try to get the GLBT center at university to go ape shit at them. Still, did it ever occur to them that as a transsexual with problems with depression that rather than forcing me out of my home, it might have been in my best interests to leave me in piece to attempt to get caught up on the week of work I missed?

P.S. Hey Dante, your signature claims "I am a lesbian trapped in a man's body," Are you actually a lesbian transsexual girl (And yes they exist; abundantly) or were you just looking for a goofy way to say you're straight without realising that you just applied the standard description of a lesbian t-girl to yourself?

I, personally, have not been discriminated against, though I see quite a bit of discrimination far too often in school. It's kind of hard for me to be discriminated against, I suppose, because I'm a young, white male who's not extremely ugly or extremely nerdy. Not much room to discriminate, though because of my punk rock leanings there's been a few close calls.

In fact, now that you mention, I suppose I have been discriminated against once: from the school principal. Back when the Iraq war was just getting started, I was outspokingly anti-war. When a couple friends and I tried hanging anti-war posters on our locker, the principal called me down and told me we couldn't do it. They said they weren't choosing sides. Several days later, in senior hall, someone put up a big pro-war article on their locker. Nothing happened to them.

Our principal's a total dick-tator.

I live in a 'bubble' of liberal richness, so I experience (or least notice) no discrimination at all. The most I even heard about was when I was dragged to a Gay-Straight alliance meeting. Even then there wasn't much.

Meh, I used to get it a bit. I got picked on all the time, because I'm nerdy :P. And i used to not stick up for myself, but now I try a little harder. Towards the end of the school year, I actually started putting up with less and less. People used to call me gay all the time. Thank god, I'm not black, I'd probably be fucking dead by now if I was. Living in a rurall hicktown would be the scariest thing ever for a presummed gay black guy. And no, I'm not gay, but the way me and my friends joke around about it, you could sure mistake as being gay :D. But I think that spawned from being called fags and such all the time anyways :P. Still, I'm not sure that counts as discrimination, since I'm really not gay, and I never let it go much past a verbal thing. Oh well, this is long enough as it is, I think I'll end this where it is.

I'm a white male, between the age of 18 to 65, with no known defects. The world is my freakin' oyster.

In other words, no, I have not ever been discriminated against.

The only thing that ever happened to me that I consider close to discrimination was one time when I posted on the boards of my favorite zone in Continuum (cool 2-d multiplayer freeware spaceship shooter thingy) and someone cracked an in-joke (that I did not understand) and mentioned my location line... I still don't really know what the point was, but I did get the gist of it, and it did not feel nice (I left that forum for six months because of the incident...)
I guess there were a couple incidents where teenagers of north-african descent picked on me in the street for being an offspring of europeans (you'd have to live here to understand what exactly I mean)... And there was one time when a kiddie-gang chased me and a couple friends because we happened upon them while visiting a russian immigrant friend of ours... But those kinds of things are no more than ignorance, stupidity, and bullying... Not actual discrimination.

<But those kinds of things are no more than ignorance, stupidity, and bullying... Not actual discrimination.>

wait... what's the difference?

I'm mexican. Need I say more?

Yes, I need. I've never considered myself discriminated against, but that may be because I consider myself superior to the morons who would use "mexicanism" against me, and therefore don't allow their opinions to even touch my consciousness.

Surprisingly enough, for being both gay and asian, no one has really ever discriminated against me.

I must live in one of those affluent liberal bubbles.