Discrimination is abuse that focuses on a difference or perceived difference. This may involve race, gender, disability, or any of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act. Examples of discriminatory abuse might involve harassment, slurs, or similar treatment based on the difference or perceived difference.
Ann Craft Trust

Everyone working within your Religious Life Group should ensure they are familiar with the Indicators and Signs of Discriminatory Abuse…

Unequal treatment based on age, disability, gender re-assignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief or sexual orientation (known as ‘Protected Characteristics’ under the Equality Act 2010)

Verbal abuse, derogatory remarks or inappropriate use of language related to a protected characteristic

Denying access to communication aids, not allowing access to interpreter, signer or lip-reader

Harassment or deliberate exclusion on the grounds of protected characteristics

Substandard service provision relating to a protected characteristic

Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behaviour that is inconvenient for the system and this is plausible because when an individual doesn’t fit into the system it causes pain to the individual as well as problems for the system. Thus the manipulation of an individual to adjust him to the system is seen as a cure for a sickness and therefore as good.
Theodore Kaczynski