LGBT - World Status

LGBT Love

Firstly, let me introduce what is LGBT? LGBT stands for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. This may not so common in Malaysia but it's very common in foreign countries. Nowadays, some of the countries are recognize "same sex marriage", mostly located in Americas and Western European. Besides, USA and Brazil have the highest transgender population in the World and followed by Philippines, Thailand and India.

The options you will never see in Malaysia

How many countries had take into consideration of same sex spouse and transgender population? Actually not many, most of the country ignore them. However, some of the countries especially western, they are care of LGBT status and reserved the rights of LGBT. For example they give option to select "she-male" in a gender column or they have option to disclose the relationship under same sex spouse and etc. These "rare" options, why I said "rare" is because we never see this in Malaysia. However, this is "common" in Western countries, "common" is because they are open-minded and they think LGBT s normal and not a special group.

Love is gender blind

Have the majority of peoples in this world accepted LGBT term? Most of the people think heterosexual is normal, LGBT group are abnormal, especially in conservative countries. My argument is, if you think that LGBT are abnormal, then how about a heterosexual relationship that 80 years old man married a 21 years old young lady? So why contempt LGBT? No one can contempt a LOVE couple, regardless of gender.

When it's come to the word - "LOVE", there is no right and wrong. Nobody have the rights to judge whether this is acceptable or opposition. LOVE is just more than a game for TWO, as long as you think this is the way you want, don't be afraid to fight.

List of references:

• LGBT Rights Around The World . 2016. LGBT Rights Around The World . [ONLINE] Available at: http://infographicworld.com/lgbt-rights-around-world/. [Accessed 26 March 2016].
• Explore: International | Human Rights Campaign. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.hrc.org/explore/topic/international. [Accessed 26 March 2016].