Level of Awareness on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,

Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) Discrimination of

the Students in Granja Kalinawan National High School

School A.Y. 2022-2023

Introduction
Widespread Discrimination continues to shape LGBTQ people’s lives in with
subtle and significant ways. Many LGBTQ people continue to face discrimination on
their personal lives, on the work place and the public sphere, and on their access to
critical health care. The experience of discrimination dearly takes its toll on the
psychological and physical well-being of many LGBTQ people as well on their income
and job opportunities. Many LGBTQ persons hide their relationships or alter their
personal to avoid discrimination.
Schools can be difficult environments for students, regardless of their sexual
orientation or gender identity, but they are often especially unwelcoming for lesbian,
gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ) youth. A lack of policies and practices that
affirm and support LGBTQ youth and a failure to implement protections that do exist-
means that LGBTQ students nationwide continue to face bullying, exclusion, and
discrimination in school, putting them at physical and psychological risk and limiting
their education.

World View
Many of the countries surveyed in 2002 and 2019 have seen a double-digit
increase in acceptance of homosexuality. This includes a 21-point increase since 2002
in South Africa and a 19-point increase in South Korea over the same time period.
Discrimination against members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and
intersex community doesn’t just hurt people; it hurts families, companies, and entire
country. According to studies carried out in the United States, the United Kingdom and
Thailand, between half and two thirds of LGBTQ students are regularly bullied at school
and up to a third skip school to escape harassment. Many LGBT youth, bullied at school
and rejected at home, end up homeless. Up to 40% of homeless young people on the
streets of major U.S cities identify as LGBT or queer, compared with likely less than
10% of the overall youth population. A U.S study found that gay and lesbian young
people are four times more likely to contemplate or attempt suicide, compared with the
general population – while trans youth are ten times more likely to do so.
On a range of social and economic indicators, LGBT people, especially lesbians and
transgender people, tend to fare poorly compared with the general population. Studies
in multiple countries have found rates of poverty, food insecurity and joblessness to be
elevated in the LGBT community.
Local View
In the Philippines, students who are lesbians, gay, bisexual, and transgender
(LGBTQ) for 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. In recent years, law makers and school administration in the
Philippines have recognized that bullying LGBTQ youth is a serious problem, and
design interventions to address it.
School should be safe places for everyone. But in the Philippines, students who
are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBTQ) too often find that their schooling
experience is marred by bullying, discrimination, lack access to LGBT – related
information, and in some cases, physical or sexual assault. These abuses can cause
deep and lasting harm and curtail student’s right to education, protected under
Philippine and international law. In recent years, lawmakers and school administrators
in the Philippines have recognized that bullying of LGBTQ youth is a serious problem,
and designed interventions to address it.

Legal Basis
In 2012, the Department of Education (DepEd), which 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. The following year, Congress passed the Anti-Bullying Law of 2013, with
implementing rules and regulations that enumerate sexual orientation and gender
identity as prohibited grounds for bullying and harassment. The adoption of these
policies sends a strong signal that bullying and discrimination are unacceptable and
should not be tolerated in educational institutions. But these policies, while strong on
paper, have not been adequately enforced. In the absence of effective implementation
and monitoring, many LGBT youth continue to experience bullying and harassment in
school. 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
school.
House Bill 4982 or SOGIE Bill (Sexual Orientation on Gender and Identity and
Expression Bill. This recognizes the equal rights of LGBT people. This law sets out the
prohibition of any discrimination of LGBT people such as lack of access to services,
work and school just because they are one of the LGBT. LGBT people are entitled to
their all rights under the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
In order to protect access and enjoyment of these rights the Government of the
Philippines must take positive steps to repeal discrimination laws and combat violence
targeted at LGBT individuals.

Current Situation
According to “Just Let Us Be” a discrimination against LGBTQ students in the
Philippines, the mistreatment that students faced in school was exacerbated by
discrimination policies and practices that excluded by discrimination policies and
practices that excluded them to fully participate in the school environment.
Carlos M., a 19-year-old gay student from Olongapo City, said: “ When I was in
high school, they’d push me, punch me. When I’d get out of school, they’d follow me
[and] push me, call me “gay”, “faggot”, things like that. “While verbal bullying appeared
to be the most problem that LGBT students faced, physical bullying and sexualized
harassment were also worryingly common and while students were most often the
culprits, teachers ignored or participated in bullying as well. The effects of this bullying
were devastating to the youth who were targeted. Benjie A., a 20-year-old man in
Manila who was bullied throughout his education, said. “ I was depressed, I was bullied,
I didn’t know my sexuality, I felt unloved, and I felt alone all the time. And I had friends,
but still felt so lonely. I was listing ways to die.

Reason/s for Conducting the Study

The researcher conduct this study to seek and understand the level of
awareness of the LGBTQ discrimination of the students of Granja Kalinawan National
High School A.Y 2022-2023. The researcher wants to give them attention attention
especially in our government so that they also have equal treatment from others.