The southern Indian state of Kerala announced this month that it would reserve places for transgender students in the state's higher education institutions, a move aimed at easing their stigmatization.
Ontario schools will go back to teaching the same sex-ed curriculum they did in the late 1990s this fall after the province’s new government announced Wednesday it was revoking an updated version brought in by the previous regime.
Jodie Patterson is a graduate of a historically black college. She is also the mother of a young transgender boy. And as a parent, she said, she knows what she wants to see from schools.
As originally written, the state's anti-discrimination guideline was a supportive document with backing from educators and LGBTQ advocates. Now it's a "nightmare" for trans students.
A Recent study by Institution of Engineering & Technology revealed young people from LGBT community avoid taking STEM subjects due to fear of discrimination.
Because the new framework means that morality, justified by culture and religion, will continue to be institutionalised in the schools’ regulations and curricula, teachers will continue with the abstinence-only approach.
