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I was listing ways to die. The adoption of these policies sends a strong signal that bullying and discrimination are unacceptable and should not be tolerated in educational institutions. Benjie A. And I had friends, but I still felt so lonely. Keith Parris wasn’t expecting his first brush of viral fame.

These policies are particularly difficult for transgender students, who are typically treated as their sex assigned at birth rather than their gender identity. 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.

It made me feel terrible: I cried because I saw my classmates watching me getting my hair cut. 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.

One way that schools can address bullying and discrimination and ameliorate their effects is by providing educational resources to students, teachers, and staff to familiarize them with LGBT people ampute issues. The mistreatment that students faced in schools was exacerbated by discriminatory policies and practices that excluded them from fully participating in the school environment.

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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.

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. As a coping. 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.

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In the absence of effective implementation and monitoring, many LGBT youth continue to experience bullying and harassment in school. How gay amputee Andrew Gregory became a pole champion after a life-changing ampute “People tend to ask me about my leg with a sad look on their face, and I think they’re surprised when I tell them how happy I am with it.” By Thomas Stichbury.

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. He is gay, but he did not “come out” about his sexuality untilat the age of 23, as he had struggled to reconcile it with his Christianity and his desire for social acceptance.

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.

The CBCP has sought to weaken anti-discrimination legislation pending before Congress, for example, and has opposed implementation of comprehensive sexuality education in schools. 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.

Efforts to address discrimination against LGBT people have met with resistance, including by religious leaders. That happened to me many gay. The incidents described in this report illustrate the vital importance of expanding and enforcing protections for LGBT youth in schools.

Schools should be safe places for everyone. Carlos M. The effects of this bullying were devastating to the youth who were targeted. But these policies, while strong on paper, have not been adequately enforced. Despite prohibitions on bullying, for example, students across the Philippines described patterns of bullying and mistreatment that went unchecked by school staff.