News UK
Pop ‘n’ Olly to donate LGBTQ children’s books to schools in Rishi Sunak’s constituency
"We want to empower children to have a voice and be part of a more inclusive future"
Education
News Politics
Government hasn’t had single meeting with LGBT+ organisation over trans schools guidance
“This guidance could have huge implications for the safety and wellbeing of young trans people”
News UK
Trans students could be banned from single-sex schools, new guidance suggests
“Single-sex schools can refuse to admit pupils of the other legal sex”.
News UK
Majority of queer adults think LGBTQ identities should be taught in primary schools, report says
"It’s vital that all schools are LGBT+ inclusive for the sake of wellbeing" Just Like Us' CEO shares.
News UK
National Education Union warns the UK Government is ‘seriously failing to support trans people’
The NEU has been hosting its annual conference this week.
News World
Virginia School Board fails to implement inclusive transgender policies
After hearing from around 70 people the school board failed to put the measures through despite a state law requiring them to do so.
News World
Book calling for gay people to be killed discovered in Yorkshire school library
School leaders told Ofsted during their inspection the book was there for "research purposes".
News World
Hungary rejects EU pressure as ‘disgraceful’ anti-LGBTQ law comes into effect
"If Hungary doesn't set things right, the commission will use [its] powers," promises EU boss Ursula von der Leyen.
News World
Teachers in Spain are wearing skirts to class to take a stand against bullying
The 'Clothes Have No Gender' movement started last October 15-year-old boy was expelled and sent to a psychologist for wearing a skirt to school.
Culture Film & TV
Pride In Education conference to return for third outing this June
“It is of the utmost importance that teachers and educators continue to provide inclusive and compassionate education," say organisers.
Culture Sexuality
‘I came out to my pupils to be the role model I never had – and I’ve never had a homophobic comment in the classroom’
Thomas Wiltshire, a 29-year-old English teacher at a secondary school in South London, shares his story in the Attitude April Style issue, out now.
Culture Sexuality
‘Cutting anti-LGBTQ bullying programmes in schools is a betrayal of already-vulnerable students’
The government’s recent decision to cut anti-LGBT+ bullying programmes — despite 46% of students not feeling safe at school — is a “huge mistake”, writes Sue Sanders, founder of LGBT+ History Month and chair of Schools OUT UK.
News World
Headmaster who came out as gay in assembly ‘overwhelmed’ by response from pupils
Excl: "There have also been more than 300 supportive and positive messages across social media" says Nicholas Hewlett, head of St Dunstan’s College
News World
Headteacher to come out as gay and introduce his husband to pupils in school assembly
Nicholas Hewlett of St Dunstan’s College has been inspired by an out gay student: "I felt that I owed it to the pupils"
News World
Teen ‘expelled from school for being gay’
Headmaster allegedly told boy's mum: "I'm doing what Jesus would want".
News World
Academic claims he was forced out of Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies because of his sexuality
"As a homosexually-partnered, bisexual man, I do not comply with the preferences of the Centre’s major funders"
News World
Christian school assistant fired after opposing LGBTQ lessons says she was defending Biblical ‘truth’
Kristie Higgs was sacked from Farmor's Secondary School in Gloucestershire over a series of Facebook posts.
Culture Sexuality
‘Pride and parenting: What I’ll be teaching my kids this year’
'Some Families' podcast host and Attitude's new parenting columnist Stu Oakley on parenting during Pride.
News World
Four in 10 LGBTQ teachers in the UK have experienced homophobia, biphobia and transphobia at work
The new study came from teachers' union NASUWT
News World
Hundreds of students stage mass protest as two teachers are fired because they are gay
Paul Danforth and Michelle Beattie reportedly were fired because they decided to marry their partners