Harassment of gay student
Physical and/or Verbal Threats Faced by LGBT Youth
A learn of Massachusetts high educational facility students published in the journal Pediatrics reports that nearly one-third of same-sex attracted teens had been threatened in the past month with a weapon at school, compared to 7% of heterosexual students surveyed.
In two separate studies, similar percentages of lesbian, same-sex attracted, and bisexual youth reported hearing homophobic comments in their schools.
In a 1993 study by the Massachusetts Governor's Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, 97% of students in a Boston public tall school said they heard homophobic remarks on a regular basis from their peers.
The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) conducted a survey of 496 lesbian, gay, pansexual, and transgender (LGBT) students from 32 states. This survey found that over 90% of LGBT youth reported that they sometimes or frequently heard homophobic comments in their schools.
Over one-third of youth reported that no outside party ever intervened when homophobic remarks were made in their school environment, according to GLSEN's "National College Climate Survey."
The National Queer and Lesbian Task Coerce "National Anti-Gay/Lesbian Victimization Re
The report ‘LGBTIQ equality at a crossroads: progress and challenges’ captures the experiences, views and challenges LGBTIQ people face in Europe. It also highlights the changes since FRA’s previous surveys in 2019 and 2012.
The findings reveal signs of slow but incremental progress. While discrimination against LGBTIQ people remains tall, it is gradually failing. Schools deal with LGBTIQ issues more positively and proactively, and young people feel more supported by their teachers and peers. Nevertheless, bullying, harassment and violence have reached elevated levels.
The key findings of the survey include:
- Openness: over 1 in 2 are now open about their sexual orientation, gender culture and expression, and sex characteristics. But most still avoid holding hands with their same-sex partner in public for fear of being attacked.
- Discrimination: over 1 in 3 face discrimination in their daily existence because of who they are. This is a slight decrease from 2 in 5 in 2019. Yet, discrimination remains concealed as only 1 in 10 report incidents.
- Violence: over 1 in 10 experienced violence in the 5 years before the survey, slightly more than in 2019. Over 1 in 3 intersex people were
Research reveals harassment and bullying of LGBT+ students and staff in colleges and universities
The report, looking at bullying of lesbian, homosexual, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) staff and students, also found that 17 per cent of staff contain experienced name-calling at labor, and one in 10 had been threatened or intimidated.
Pride and Prejudice in Education, Feb 16 [1mb] was produced by the University and College Union, National Union of Students, the Equality Challenge Unit, the Learning and Perform Institute, the Skills Funding Agency and the Forum for Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Equality. It calls on universities and colleges to provide great quality training and assist for staff. It also recommends that institutions progress an inclusive curriculum, own zero tolerance for harassment of LGBT+ students and take action to stop students dropping out due to discrimination.
Key findings include:
- 60 per cent of respondents had witnessed a learner acting negatively towards people because of their sexual orientation at least once. One in 10 respondents saw or heard this behaviour every day
- 51 per cent of lesbian and gay students and 59 per cent of neutrois students
LGBTQ+ Bullying
School can be challenging for any pupil, but many LGBTQ+ young people face an alarming amount of bullying and harassment. Homophobic and biphobic bullying is where people are discriminated against and treated unfairly by other people because they are womxn loving womxn, gay, bisexual, trans or questioning or perceived to be. People who are not lesbian, gay, multi-attracted , trans or questioning can also experience homophobic and biphobic bullying if someone thinks that they are.
Transphobic bullying is where people are discriminated against and treated unfairly by other people because their gender identity doesn’t align with the sex they were assigned at birth or perhaps because they undertake not conform to stereotyped gender roles or ‘norms’.
(The above definition was taken from the LGBT Foundation )
Like all forms of bullying, homophobic bullying can be through name calling, spreading rumours, online bullying, physical, sexual or emotional abuse and can include:
- Making comments about a person’s gender or sexuality that deliberately makes them feel uncomfortable
- Calling a person names or banter them
- Hitting, kicking, punching or physically hurting them
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