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Identity abuse against LGBTQ+ exceeds one type, covers multiple categories - C C - Nov 28, 2025
Identity abuse against sexual and gender minority communities: The Being LGBTQI+ in Ireland study
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0335595&utm_source=pr&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=plos006
ABSTRACT: Identity abuse targets people on the basis of immutable characteristics, and has the potential to cause greater emotional and psychological distress for this reason. People with multiple intersecting identities may be at greater risk. While the LGBTQI+ population experience higher rates of abuse than the general population, studies often focus on one type of abuse and rarely examine within LGBTQI+ group variation.
A national cohort study involving over 2,800 LGBTQI+ participants aged 14 + examined the prevalence and predictors of LGBTQI+ identity abuse across six forms of abuse, as well as experiences of identity abuse more broadly via an open-ended question. Lifetime and past year prevalence of at least one form of abuse was 79% and 42% respectively. Polyvictimisation (two or more forms of abuse) was experienced by over half of the sample within their lifetime.
Besides LGBTQI+ identity abuse, participants also experienced other forms of identity abuse, including ableism, racism, and sexism. LGBTQI+ people with disability were particularly at risk of abuse. Asexual and bisexual participants had lower odds of many forms of identity abuse. Risk, however, was constituted differently across the different forms of abuse, highlighting the importance of not siloing abuse in research by examining each type independently of one another.
Interventions to tackle prejudice-based abuse are required, including those that address heteronormative and gender normative assumptions that seem to underpin prejudice, as well as tackling ageism and racism. Polices and measures to safeguard LGBTQI+ people against identity abuse also need to be enacted... (MORE - details)
RE: Identity abuse against LGBTQ+ exceeds one type, covers multiple categories - Zinjanthropos - Nov 29, 2025
I hear the N word used a lot in movies by black actors and even amongst blacks themselves. Same goes for derogatory terms once used to identify LGBTQ, not by past abusers but by the very persons who claim to be slandered by the use of such terms. Why is that?
Google AI:
Quote: The Concept of Reclamation
Reclamation is a complex linguistic phenomenon where a marginalized group takes a term that was originally used to insult or oppress them and uses it as a self-affirming in-group identifier. The intent is to strip the word of its power to harm and turn it into a symbol of pride and solidarity.
Common Reclaimed Terms
Examples of words used within parts of the community that were once (or still are, depending on the context) used as slurs by others include:
Queer: Originally a pejorative term, it began to be reclaimed by activists in the late 1980s and is now widely used as a positive, self-affirming umbrella term for people who are not heterosexual or cisgender, especially in academic contexts and among younger generations.
Dyke: This term, historically a slur for a masculine lesbian, has been adopted affirmatively by some lesbians and queer women to foster unity and pride.
Faggot/Fag: While still a highly offensive slur when used by those outside the community (and to many within it), some gay men have reclaimed the term as an in-group term of endearment or as a "battle cry" to fight oppression.
Fairy: An old-school anti-gay dig that has been reclaimed by movements like the Radical Faeries.
RE: Identity abuse against LGBTQ+ exceeds one type, covers multiple categories - Syne - Nov 29, 2025
Not really reclaiming it if you're still just as offended by the wrong people using it. If you still find it offensive, it can't really be self-affirming.
RE: Identity abuse against LGBTQ+ exceeds one type, covers multiple categories - Magical Realist - Nov 29, 2025
I don't accept these so-called reclamations of terms like "queer" or "fag" or "fairy". It's too deliberately strategic and so reactive to the offensive power of those labels. As if they even deserve the dignity of being seemingly neutralized of their sting. Even if you do manage to get used to calling yourself and others by those names, you are never truly desensitized from the pain they still inflict when coming out of the mouths of hateful bigots.