It's me again; same characters and scenario mentioned in  this post. (Thanks to all who helped BTW)

( Cut just in case )

Setting: modern day Italia
Research Conducted:
Googled "insults ftm discrimination", tried looking for pejorative synonyms to "ftm" in the Urban Dictionary, checked some trans-gender LJ communities.

Hi!
I want to write a fic with a trans man (ie a female-to-male transsexual person). This character is Italian and a member of a mafia family. This is ( Read more... )

( Warning for discussion of LGBTQ bullying/suicide/substance abuse )

I'm a female writer struggling to portray as accurately as possible the teenage male experience. In particular, I'm interested in insecurities that a boy around the age of 16 would have in ~2008-2010. This has proven to be a difficult topic to get actual information on. I've searched online and found lots of stuff related to puberty insecurities, ( Read more... )

My character is a fourteen-year-old girl who migrated to Australia with her family from Singapore when she was six. Her family were Hindus way back when, but have been Catholic for generations. She attends a Catholic girls' high school, where she is bullied by other girls for being what they consider overly religious: volunteering to sing a hymn ( Read more... )

Believe it or not, this is a very hard thing to google for! I've tried all manner of combinations of "gay/homosexual"+"Japan/Japanese"+"school"+"bullying/harassment/teasing/etc." i.e. "Homosexuality in Japanese schools", "Gay bullying school japan", "harassment in Japanese school", etc. etc. but I keep turning up blanks (or links for yaoi manga, * ( Read more... )