The document discusses discrimination faced by LGBT individuals. It shares the personal experience of the author who questioned their gender identity from a young age due to others laughing at them for playing a game for girls. As they got older, entering public restrooms continued to be challenging due to stares and feelings of not belonging. The author asks why they need to constantly prove their worth and hopes for understanding and respect from others regardless of gender preference, as all humans deserve respect. They believe discrimination can be reduced through understanding, which leads to respect and ultimately harmony and equality.

1. Why?
(LGBT)
By: Teejay B. Palmero

2. • Life is a story of success and failure. It is a journey about
finding you’re purpose and you’re true identity. All
individual are expected to be good or great in certain field
but suddenly not all individual has opportunity. An
opportunity to show his or her abilities and capabilities.
Life is not a fairytale; there is something that will block
you to your journey to success. One of the hindrances that
individual will possibly encounter is discrimination..

3. • . Discrimination is part of our journey it may possible to
happen in all of us but there is visible difference between
the degrees of discrimination experienced by the people
who belong to LGBT community. As proud member of
LGBT community and one who has experience how to be
discriminated. I can say that it became part of my
environment since I learned how to walk and how to
think.

4. • A child who is just starting in his journey is already being
discriminated. A young boy playing ten-twenty at the
street is surrounded by people laughing because they find
it contrasting. Then I started to be confused, I ask myself,
who I am? Why people laughing at me because I play a
sport necessary for girl? Why my inner self is contrasting
in the physicality of my genitalia? Those are some
question that bothering me.

5. • While gaining age I discovered that I am truly different
from the others but I am not alone. I taught that
discrimination will stop there but I’m wrong. Now I’m 17
years old still being discriminated. Entering in a public
comport room is one of the challenges in my life. My first
step will be the last one because people are looking at me.
I don’t know what is in their mind but one thing that I am
aware of and that is they feel that I am not suited at that
specific area because it is necessary for male.

6. • There still some question in my mind. Why do I need to
prove myself just to earn respect? Why I am living
proving my worth in this world.
• I am not dreaming that all people will accept me. I just
need understanding and respect. Respect me not only
because of my gender preference but because I am human
one of God creation.

7. • I believed that discrimination can possibly solve by
understanding because trough understanding respect can
be possible and when there is respect harmony can be
achieve. Harmony will lead to equality.

8. • Love is one of the most powerful things in this earth
because love transude any boundaries even nation,
religions, beliefs and gender.