Bullyg prents a cril issue for tors, given s negative repercsns for both the direct victims and the overall school climate. A growg issue is that lbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) stunts experience a disproportnate amount of bullyg.
Contents:
- GAY STUNTS FACE HARASSMENT AND BULLYG
- GAY BULLYG: BULLYG LGBTQ STUNTS
- WHAT IS THE IMPACT OF BULLYG ON LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL STUNTS?
- DEALG WH GAY STUNTS, BULLYG VERY DIFFERENT WAYS
GAY STUNTS FACE HARASSMENT AND BULLYG
* bullying gay students *
ATLANTA — A recent survey reveals that gay high school stunts are equently harassed and bullied, and that school officials do very ltle to help them, the Atlanta Journal-Constutn reported.
GAY BULLYG: BULLYG LGBTQ STUNTS
Rearchers and practners have recently lled for greater volvement of school health profsnals (SHPs; e.g., school psychologists, nurs, guidance unselors) terventns to intify and addrs bullyg of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer/qutng (LGBTQ) stunts. … * bullying gay students *
Acrdg to the Journal-Constutn, guidance unselors more than 100 area private and public high schools were surveyed this sprg on the issue of harassment of gay stunts.
It’s a crisis, ” said Steve Epste, executive director of Enlight Atlanta, a group that has helped gay stunts facg school harassment and that nducted the survey. Last month, Human Rights Watch, an ternatnal rearch and advocy group, released a report sayg that two ln Uned Stat teenagers were havg ser problems school bee they were tnted wh anti-gay slurs. School system gets a failg gra when to providg a safe place for gay stunts to get an tn, ” said Michael Bochenek, unsel to the Children’s Rights Divisn of Human Rights Watch and a -thor of the report.
WHAT IS THE IMPACT OF BULLYG ON LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL STUNTS?
Epste said that anti-gay slurs are beg thrown around startg the early years of elementary school. Such are rerced over the years, wh children learng that “gay” equals “bad. In some schools, stunts have formed gay-straight allianc, groups that are tend to help bridge the gap between straight and gay stunts and to addrs problems of harassment and bullyg.
Tsai said the ACLU has started a program to meet wh school admistrators and teachers to sensize them about harassment of gay stunts schools.
DEALG WH GAY STUNTS, BULLYG VERY DIFFERENT WAYS
“It’s not about advotg sex, ’s not about advotg homosexualy, ” Epste said. Lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, nonbary or otherwise genr non-nformg (LGBTQI+) youth and those perceived as LGBTQI+ are at an creased risk of beg bullied.
High school stunts who self-intify as lbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) report havg been bullied on school property (23%) and cyberbullied (27%) the past year than their straight peers (7% and 13%, rpectively). Historilly, YRBS and other studi have gathered data on lbian, gay, and bisexual youth but have not clud qutns about transgenr, non-bary, genr non-nformg, tersex, or queer youth.