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- housing
- public accommodations
- employment
- rejection by family members/friends
- violations of due process
- limitations regarding freedom of speech, association, and equal protection under the law
- police harassment
- court cases involving child custody
- verbal harassment/ridicule
- threats of prison
- arrest, public court trials, and imprisonment
- assault/violence
- dishonorable discharges from military service
- difficulty/inability to adopt
- no access to legal, economic, and social supports of heterosexual married couples, such as:
- joint tax returns
- joint credit
- insurance/medical benefits
- wills, inheritance
- social security payments/pensions of partner
- joint custody
- divorce
- attempts to "cure": electroshock and aversion therapies, castration, clitoridectomies, pharmacologic and hormonal injections, etc.
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