No one I’ve spoken to at school has ever knowingly met a trans person before or been taught anything about trans people and what we might need. Even if I did well in school, it wouldn’t matter to people because all they would care about is me being gay. I felt like whatever I was doing was worthless. More than two in five trans young people have attempted to take their own life, and one in five lesbian, gay and bi students who aren’t trans have done the same.More than four in five trans young people have self-harmed, as have three in five lesbian, gay and bi young people who aren’t trans.Just one in five LGBT pupils have been taught about safe sex in relation to same-sex relationships.However, just two in five LGBT pupils report that their schools say that transphobic bullying is wrong Seven in 10 LGBT pupils report that their school says that homophobic and biphobic bullying is wrong, up from half in 2012 and a quarter in 2007.Half of LGBT pupils hear homophobic slurs ‘frequently’ or ‘often’ at school, down from seven in 10 in 2012.Nearly half of LGBT pupils (45 per cent) – including 64 per cent of trans pupils – are bullied for being LGBT in Britain’s schools.This is down from 55 per cent of lesbian, gay and bi pupils who experienced bullying because of their sexual orientation in 2012 and 65 per cent in 2007.School Report (2017) June 2017 Key findings
