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Despite bullying and other mistreatment in school, LGBTQ teens are more likely to be disciplined for misconduct than other students accused of similar conduct. 

A viewpoint that older workers are devalued because they are no longer economically productive and their higher salaries drive down capitalist profits is based in discrimination against them.  When people in more powerful positions assess older workers this way, it represents a form of discrimination and most closely reflects with theoretical paradigm.  

In ancient Greece, male homosexuality (often between man and a teenaged boy) was considered acceptable behavior.

Comparable worth is the idea that women are sometimes paid less than men, but it is fair due to the types of jobs they are more likely to occupy such as being K-12 teachers. 

LGBTQ teens are much more likely than their peers to:

Gender identity is the personal conception of oneself as female, male, both, or neither.

Biological definitions, much like gender identity, are socially constructed meaning by individuals.  This means that it is possible there are more than two sexes, that is, males and females.  This most closely reflects which theoretical paradigm?

Whether a person identifies as heterosexual, homosexual, transgender, female, or male, sexual orientation is based on the meaning that individuals have for it. In other words, it’s relative to the way they have constructed meaning in different social situations over the course of their lives.  This most closely reflects which theoretical paradigm?

Biology has determined that sexuality is a product of genes.  In other words, there is a heterosexual and homosexual gene. 

Society has been organized around the biological definitions for males and females.  These definitions have contributed to the current social order.  Therefore, “other” gender identifies create a disruption or dysfunction to social order.  Therefore, the corresponding parts of society such as government and family will interdependently work together to find a resolution to this disruption, or to return society to some sort of balance.  This most closely reflects which theoretical paradigm?