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? kween B. Creator of this hive!!

All your statements are attacks against gay people and human rights I hate to repeat myself as you stated but: I AM NOT HERE TO BE NICEEEEEE.

Kween!

I truly hope you work in hospice blaming people for the reasons they are dying (cynical). That’s the only area you will excel!

I don’t identify as sir. Yes. That’s what you are as well as unhinged

Military as a reference is great! Trans people have been banned from serving. Do you want to ban trans people from being nurses as well? Or get a different reference?

I have to say that was a funny one ?. I truly can take criticism and jokes without darting to discrimination and hate. And to clarify talking shop is not throwing it in people’s face. But easier to blame others than take a look at your own biases. Takes a wise man (whether:gay, straight, bi, lesbian, trans, queer, intersexual, asexual) ?

Second of all, wrong! ?

Damn. Right: I am not trying to be polite! My truer gay colors will shine! Well I am telling you that is not helpful into what I am trying to accomplish here. so baiii hun

The disgrace is that you read the post and didn’t focus on the issue at hand, instead said we shouldn’t be talking about our sexuality at work. Please follow the comments ?(me trying to be nicer to you all)

As expressed previously: I am not here to be polite. So your comment is not needed. Stick to the facts! No shoulda coulda woulda!

Explored rainbows. Wow. Let’s leave it at that. Like I said: disgraceful

Wrong for not seeing the overt hate in the comment made. Instead saying to be kept quiet. Don’t jump to conclusions hun.

You mean opinion. If you read back the 60 comments your type of comment is irrelevant to the topic. To be honest for a gay millennial to not condemn this comment made disgraceful. Cheers m good luck ?

Missing the point of the post... Don’t be a follower! First nursing lesson

Can’t believe I’m even commenting on this post but: it’s not a preference AMY!

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People responding: read the passage and respond. You can’t make up parts of the story! Should have learned this in grade school. Facts only. Continue on... and thank you everyone with sense commenting. Not sure what small town some of y’all from but......I’m going to be my best gay self whether you like it or not like I said previously. ANYWHERE

Never said I understand. There are no rules when battling discrimination. Once again focusing on the wrong thing. ✌?

I am not here to be polite. I am sharing my story to make awareness and to FIGHT. trust me it goes beyond this forum! The workplace LEGALLY needs to be a safe space where you are free to be who you are, and that INCLUDES Your gender identity. The issue is not that people at work are saying these things, its the fact that management and staff in supervisory positions are spouting hateful and discriminatory rhetoric that contributes to a hostile and unsafe working environment. There are laws that prohibit discrimination in the workplace.IN ANY WORKPLACE. So anti-muslim and anti-gay rhetoric is NEVER NEVER OK. The fact that no one commented in this way is alarming!

Victim blaming and attacking. Like I said stay out of my comments with your negativity. Clearly pulling me down. Don’t care who or what you are.

Being gay is who I am and a characteristic. I will discuss it anywhere I choose to. Work, gym, a republican convention ?. Biting your tongue and staying quiet just feeds into keeping what’s normal to society all there is out there. I have to hear about people’s kids graduation and having a baby which I care less about. I will discuss being gay and liberal all day!

I never have my head down and my mouth will always run for what’s good for society. You sound like a a bay boomer who allowed all this racism. Please stay out of my comments with that negativity

These are the questions you ask after reading this? Get justice means make awareness, make people accountable for racist comments at work. If I over hear someone saying something that’s inappropriate I will chime in and say something. As has been said in the current political climate: if you don’t speak up you are part of the problem! So that’s why I said something. Doesn’t matter who it is!

As a travel nurse, I expect to experience whatever is thrown at me. What I experienced at Metropolitan State Hospital was beyond my expectations. It was an unbelievable encounter with rudeness, hate, racism, and xenophobia. On the first day at the facility, the staff was extremely rude to all of us who picked up to come work and help with COVID. All my travel colleagues would agree and could speak to the disrespect given to us. I thought this may not be a place for me to work and almost quit. Wanting to stay in SoCal I continued the contract. The extreme hate began on the inpatient unit. A psych tech and I were having a talk about life. I mentioned my “gay culture” to him and he replied, “what is gay culture.” In an aggressive manner. I saw his body language change, eye contact decrease and his fists even ball up. When I explained gay culture is my lifestyle he harshly stated, “That doesn’t exist. All gay people should come to Nigeria and be killed.” I replied stating that would never happen to me and I would protect myself in any way I needed. But I was fearful and shocked that someone could say that. I never reported this but spoke to a friend about what I could do to protect gay patients in hospitals, especially a state-run facility. The next situation happened more recently causing me to resign. The snowball effect of hate forced me to never return. A person who came over risking my own health to care for COVID patients had to run far away. I also signed a lease in Long Beach so could not even return home after such a horrific experience. So it started on another unit where I was talking shop with this shift lead on unit 409. We were talking shop and election results. The shift lead name Dia stated, “ I support Donald Trump because he is crazy like our patients so we should take care of him like we do our patients.” Her using the word crazy to describe a person with mental illness was alarming in itself. When you hear what happened next, that doesn’t even compare. I am someone who is asked every day, “Are you Arabic or Muslim? Are you from the Middle East?”, she intensely and rudely stated to me, “All Muslims should go back to where they came from!” I was beside myself and had to leave the office and go to another unit. I absolutely told her she was xenophobic and doesn’t take care of “crazy” people because she hasn’t moved from the desk. I reported it to the manager right away and said I can not work there. They moved me to another unit. I am unsure if any action was taken, but I highly doubt it. The manager did not take any of my information. I quit and no one from the facility had reached out to me (5 days after I am writing this). I believe some form of justice should be served. Staff has said this is the culture of Metro and they are not surprised. Taxpayer money of gay and Muslim civilians alike find this facility and pay the salary of those who hate them and verbally express it freely. I fear for the patients who fit the criteria of what some of these staff members see less than and believe should be dead or deported. Please respond with helpful advice? How should I move forward to get justice?