Orlando shares with a friend that he does not like people who are homosexual, and that he goes out of his way at work to avoid helping customers who he suspects are gay. His friend says to him, “man, that isn’t a cool way to be. You do realize that you’re expressing a form of prejudice called ________, don’t you?”Group of answer choicesgender dysphoriaasexualitytransphobiahomophobia
Question
Orlando shares with a friend that he does not like people who are homosexual, and that he goes out of his way at work to avoid helping customers who he suspects are gay. His friend says to him, “man, that isn’t a cool way to be. You do realize that you’re expressing a form of prejudice called ________, don’t you?”Group of answer choicesgender dysphoriaasexualitytransphobiahomophobia
Solution
The form of prejudice that Orlando is expressing is called homophobia.
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