Sorry to hear that .
prejudices are a plague upon humankind . More destruction have been caused by it . Not to measure if we could , the advances we could have made without it. I have live all over this planet and have seen nearly all of its ugliness . It has always amazed me what one person can inflect on another . From facebook bulling to throwing a LGBT off a building. I can't understand it .
I'll stand shoulder to shoulder with you , side by side and so will others .
I think that there is also a lot of valuable learning in the experience and perhaps in some ways, experiencing it is a 'necessary evil' to give the drive to work toward a better way.