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But they can also be challenging for students who are gender non-conforming, and feel most comfortable expressing themselves or participating in activities that the school considers inappropriate for their sex. It details widespread bullying and harassment, discriminatory.

The adverse treatment they experience from peers and teachers is compounded by discriminatory policies that stigmatize and disadvantage LGBT students and by the lack of information and resources about LGBT issues available in schools. Sexual orientation is a component of identity that includes sexual and emotional attraction to another person and the behavior and/or social affiliation that may result from this attraction.

Carlos M. The effects of this bullying were devastating to the youth who were targeted.

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The mistreatment that students faced in schools was exacerbated by discriminatory policies and practices that excluded them from fully participating in the school environment. In the absence of effective implementation and monitoring, many LGBT youth continue to experience bullying and harassment in school.

These policies are particularly difficult for transgender students, who are typically treated as their sex assigned at birth rather than their gender identity. Gender identity is one’s self-identification as male, female, or an alternative gender.

Efforts to address discrimination against LGBT people have met with resistance, including by religious leaders. But these policies, while strong on paper, have not been adequately enforced. During its Universal Periodic Review cycle, the United States of America (U.S.) received recommendations from Iceland, Belgium, France, and Malta regarding LGBTQ+ rights.

Schools impose rigid gender norms on students in a variety of ways—for example, through gendered uniforms or dress codes, restrictions on hair length, gendered restrooms, classes and activities that differ for boys and girls, and close scrutiny of same-sex friendships and relationships.

Sexual orientation refers to an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions to men, women, or both sexes. In recent years, lawmakers and school administrators in the Philippines have recognized that bullying of LGBT youth is a serious problem, and designed interventions to address it.

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Schools should be safe places for everyone. Officials have targeted lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people with hateful rhetoric and crackdowns. The adoption of these policies sends a strong signal that bullying and discrimination are unacceptable and should not be tolerated in educational institutions.

Inthe Department of Education DepEdwhich oversees primary and secondary schools, enacted a Child Protection Policy designed to address bullying and discrimination in schools, including on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

Human Rights Watch works for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender peoples' rights, and with activists representing a multiplicity of identities and issues. The following year, Congress passed the Anti-Bullying Law ofwith implementing rules and regulations that enumerate sexual orientation and gender identity as prohibited grounds for bullying and harassment.

The incidents described in this report illustrate the vital importance of expanding and enforcing protections for LGBT youth in schools. I was listing ways to die.

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This report documents the range of abuses against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students in secondary school. This report is based on interviews and group discussions conducted in 10 cities on the major Philippine islands of Luzon and the Visayas with 76 secondary school students or recent graduates who identified as LGBT or questioning, 22 students or recent graduates who did not identify as LGBT or questioning, and 46 parents, teachers, counselors, administrators, service providers, and experts on education.

But in the Philippines, students who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender LGBT too often find that their schooling experience is marred by bullying, discrimination, lack of access to LGBT-related information, and in some cases, physical or sexual assault.

Despite prohibitions on bullying, for example, students across the Philippines described patterns of bullying and mistreatment that went unchecked by school staff. Most historians agree that there is evidence of homosexual activity and same-sex love, whether such relationships were accepted or persecuted, in every documented culture.

That happened to me many times.

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For example, Marisol D. When I was in high school, there was a teacher who always went around and if you had long hair, she would call you up to the front of the class and cut your hair in front of the students. It made me feel terrible: I cried because I saw my classmates watching me getting my hair cut.

Benjie A. And I had friends, but I still felt so lonely. Freedoms of Expression and Assembly.