LGBTQ-PHOBIA - STATUS REPORT - IN ISRAEL #9

2021 major LGBTQ discrimination areas

The graph presents 2021 key areas of LGBTQ discrimination incidents (excluding online events) and indicates a significant increase in the number of referrals that occurred within the family (about 43%) compared to 2020 where the percentage of reports related to incidents within the family was about 28%. In addition, the percentage of incidents that occurred within the health system increased to about 7%, compared to 2020, where it measured at only about 1.7%. An explanation for the increased percentage in the family category according to the “Otot” Association is that in 2021 there was a significant increase in the number of LGBTQ community members residing in out-of-home frameworks for LGBTQ, due to prolonged conflicts within their own families that occurred during 2020. In addition, the Aguda’s psychosocial system presents a situation according to which children and adolescents, in conservative societies and even in the less conservative, are coming out of the closet at a younger age than in the past, which is probably another reason that more young people are experiencing LGBTQ discrimination and are forced to reach out-of-home frameworks. The increase in the percentage of incidents in the health system is probably due to the large influx of citizens to medical institutions due to COVID-19 (According to the 2021 State Comptroller's report). It seems that the more there are multiple encounters within the general population, the more likely there shall be an increase in LGBTQ discrimination.

Public spaces 5%

Other 10%

Educational institutes5% Workplace3% IDF1%

Criminal Incidents 9%

Close tohome3%

Publicfigures’s statements 4% Local authority 4%

Homophobic Arenas

MediaLGBTQphobia 1% Healthsystem 7%

Public transportation2% Customer service1%

Family 43%

State institutes 2%