this proportion has remained broadly stable in recent years and the 2022 estimate is similar to 2017.

ASEXUAL: A person who experiences little or no sexual attraction to others and/or a lack of interest in sexual relationships/behavior. Frequently LGBT people feel more comfortable accessing services that are either explicitly LGBT friendly or run for and by LGBT people. Many social care commissioners, providers and practitioners ask why LGBT people need special treatment. This means listening, understanding and responding to their unique needs and is at the heart of personalisation. Well-designed and inclusive equalities training programmes were identified as crucial to reducing people’s levels of discomfort and fear and improving their understanding of how people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender experience inequalities.These experiences can result in LGBT people delaying seeking support when they need it or finding care and support services inaccessible. However, people from LGBT communities are increasingly likely to become more confident and visible as people who use services and carers, often paying for their own care, so care and support services need to be ready to welcome them. Within the LGB population, the majority of younger people aged 16 to 24 years identify as bisexual (69.

A 2008 survey found that 45 per cent of LGBT respondents had experienced discrimination when using social care services ( CSCI 2008). Instead they want to feel comfortable, and that they are in an environment where people understand LGBT issues and where social care practitioners are confident to work in an inclusive, antidiscriminatory way. Experimental statistics on sexual orientation in the UK in 2021 and 2022 by region, sex, age, legal partnership status, ethnic group and socio-economic classification, using data from the Annual Population Survey (APS). One of the key ways to address this is practitioner education and training so that staff can challenge discriminatory behaviour by colleagues or people who use services (Ross and Carr 2010).

In 2022, the most common legal partnership status among those identifying as heterosexual or straight was married (46. Moving forward: working with and for older lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people: training and resource pack. LGBTQI Life serves all members of the Vanderbilt community — students, faculty, staff, and alums — by creating educational, cultural, and social opportunities. Commissioning for personalisation means nurturing the type of peer support, community and voluntary activity that happens in LGBT communities.

STUD: A term originating within communities of color to describe a masculine identifying person who was assigned female at birth.PANSEXUAL: A person who experiences sexual, romantic, physical, and/or spiritual attraction for members of all gender identities/expressions. The Lavender Living Learning Community is a gender inclusive housing option for LGBTQ+ students and is a welcoming environment to explore the intersectionalities, complexities, and the history of the LGBTQ+ community. Those who identify as genderqueer may identify as neither men nor women, may see themselves as outside of or in between the gender binary, or may simply feel restricted by gender labels.