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. …
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
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. * 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.
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. Epste said that anti-gay slurs are beg thrown around startg the early years of elementary school.
GAY BULLYG: BULLYG LGBTQ STUNTS
* bullying gay students *
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.
“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.
WHAT IS THE IMPACT OF BULLYG ON LBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL STUNTS?
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.
G., gay-straight allianc or genr and sexualy allianc). The wily ed acronym stands for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr etc. Every year the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN) produc a climate survey of LGBTQ high school stunts the Uned Stat.
As well as stunts accs to a Gay-Straight-Alliance, supportive staff and curriculum rourc.
DEALG WH GAY STUNTS, BULLYG VERY DIFFERENT WAYS
6% eher gay or lbian. 5 percent of stunts stated that they heard “gay” ed a negative way at school while 91. 6% of stunts reported hearg homophobic remarks om a teacher while 71% said they heard negative remarks about genr exprsn om a teacher or other school staff.