Gender Harassment And Heterosexist Harassment

LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgender and Queer), as they are more likely to be a target than heterosexual students. They experience varying levels of being sexually harassed, and endure being emotionally and physically abused. Due to the harassment, they endure these children are not attending school, which is affecting their academic performance and how they view their future (Kosciw, Greytak, Diaz & Bartkiewicz, as cited by Bidwell, 2012, p. 200). For the last few year’s counselors main

well being of transgender people is being challenged today like never before (National Center for Transgender Equality, 2011). The National Transgender Discrimination Survey showed that ninety percent (90%) of those surveyed reported experiencing harassment or mistreatment on the job or took actions to avoid it (Grant, M., Mottet, Tanis, Harrison, Herman, & Keisling, 2011). Lombardi, Wilchins, Priesing & Malouf (2001) asserted that people who are open about being trans or request accommodations are

and schooling construct adolescent masculinity through idioms of sexuality. In addition, the book investigates the relationships between gender and sexuality as it relates to a major social institution. Throughout the book she asks how heteronormitive and homophobic discourses, practices, and interactions produce masculine identities through focusing on gender and sexual practices of the students, teachers, and administrators. Pascoe identifies high school as a crucial site where masculinity

lesbian (females sexually attracted to females); gay (males sexually attracted to males); bisexual (males/females sexually attracted to both genders); transgender (persons breaking society’s gender norms by defying rigid distinction between male and female); and, queer/questioning (persons exploring options to understand their sexual orientation and gender) (Brym & Lie, 2015). Ethnography of communication is a discourse that investigates how we would react to each other’s dissimilar social and cultural

attitude that one may develop, (Sartore-Baldwin 2013, Duckworth 2015, Mifflin Company 2002) and discrimination is defined based on actual negative actions aimed towards individuals. Prejudices may be established due to the dislike of someone 's sex, gender identity race, age, or even sexual preferences. Discrimination is based on those prejudices one develops, and that can cause one’s actions towards an individual to be negatively unjust. It is possible for an individual

homophobic remarks from several of their peers” (2016). Not only are homophobic remarks routine, but according to research conducted by the American Association of University Women, being called lesbian or gay is the most upsetting form of sexual harassment youth will experience (Iudici, A., & Verdecchia, M. 2015). Iudici, A., & Verdecchia, M. stated that over 90 percent of lesbians and gays teens have reported experiencing some type of verbal or physical abuse”(2015). Young people who are not heterosexual

challenging thing to deal with especially if sexuality and gender identity are in the process. Students who are male or female are exploring in a smart and insightful ways. During C.J. Pascoe’s eighteen months of observation in a racially assorted high school, “Dude, You 're a Fag” shows new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning and as a set of social practices. C. J. Pascoe 's unusual approach questions masculinity as not only a gender process but also a sexual one. She proves how the word

which Indian homosexuals got a new lease of life; freedom from the clutches of the archaic and discriminatory Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (hereinafter IPC). This finally enables them to lead a life of dignity which shall be free from harassment, oppression and victimization. The decade long struggle, by the activists and the homosexuals, to abolish the monstrous law has met with success. The Delhi High Court declared the concerned penal provision as unconstitutional insofar it criminalizes

values that are reproduced throughout the generations. However, hey are also sites of homophobic harassment and violence for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) students. It is alarming that institutions identified as key to perpetuating societal norms are also perpetrators and enablers of such marginalisation toward minorities. Heteronormativity, the societal favouring of binary sex, gender and sexuality (Smith et al., 2014), is the dominant sexual discourse perpetuated

Fish (2008) states some of these assumptions such as same sex couples cannot provide the appropriate gender role models, same sex parents will raise their children to be gay, and children will be bullied because they have parents who are both of the same gender. Brennan, Craig, and Thompson (2012) state in their study that there is a link between gay and bisexual men’s obsession with thinness and muscularity and internalized homophobia