{"id":7385,"date":"2017-05-30T16:44:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T10:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pahichan.com\/?p=7385"},"modified":"2017-05-30T16:44:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T10:59:18","slug":"the-state-of-homophobia-biphobia-transphobia-survey-results-discrimination-in-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pahichan.com\/en\/the-state-of-homophobia-biphobia-transphobia-survey-results-discrimination-in-employment\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of Homophobia, Biphobia & Transphobia Survey Results, Discrimination in Employment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alastair Lawrie\/Pahichan – This post is the fifth in a series of six, reporting the results of The State of Homophobia, Biphobia & Transphobia<\/em> survey I conducted at the start of 2017.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In all, 1,672 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) Australians provided valid responses to that survey.<\/p>\n

In this article, I will be focusing on their answers to four questions, asking whether they have ever experienced discrimination in employment, whether any of this discrimination occurred in the past 12 months, whether this discrimination related to employment by religious organisations and to provide an example of the discrimination that they experienced.<\/p>\n

The responses to these questions confirm that too many LGBTIQ Australians have to worry about discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation, gender identity and intersex status in the workplace on top of the usual career and financial worries.<\/p>\n

The question about whether any of this discrimination occurred in relation to employment by a religious organisation is important because of the existence of special rights to discriminate for these employers in most states and territories, leaving LGBTI employees in these circumstances without any legal redress.<\/p>\n

I also encourage you to read the examples provided in response to question four, which reveal some of the many different types of employment-related discrimination that LGBTIQ people have encountered.<\/p>\n

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Question 1: Have you ever experienced discrimination because of your sexual orientation, gender identity or intersex status in relation to employment (including as an employee, contract worker or job applicant)?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Question 2: Has one or more instances of this employment-related discrimination occurred in the past 12 months?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Question 3: Did any of this discrimination occur in relation to employment, or an application for employment, with a religious organisation?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of the 1,622 people who answered the first question, 491 \u2013 or 30% \u2013 said they had experienced employment-related discrimination at some point in their lives.<\/p>\n

Disturbingly, 235 survey respondents[ii]<\/a> reported experiencing anti-LGBTIQ discrimination in employment in the past 12 months alone. That is 14.5% of the total, or 1 in every 7 people who completed the survey.<\/p>\n

The proportion that reported employment-related discrimination by religious organisations was 6.1%[iii]<\/a>. This is thankfully much lower than the proportion that had reported discrimination by religious schools (in Survey Results, Part 4<\/em>) \u2013 although that is likely a reflection of the expansive reach of religious schools, and comparatively smaller employment footprint of religious bodies.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, most of those 6% probably had no recourse to anti-discrimination protections given the excessive, and unjustified, exceptions provided to religious organisations in most Australian jurisdictions.<\/p>\n

LGBTIQ Status<\/u><\/p>\n

There were some significant differences in reported employment-related discrimination between lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer survey respondents:<\/p>\n

Lesbian<\/em><\/p>\n