Pink News reports:
In a video posted a month ago by LGBT Youth North West a schoolgirl from oldham tells her account of being made to change in the boys’ changing rooms at school after coming out as lesbian.
She talks about bullying in general and losing friends after coming out, before saying that she was made to change for PE with her male classmates: “When I was in PE, I couldn’t get changed in the girls’ toilets or the locker room so I had to get changed with the lads.
“My PE teacher said, ‘You’re not attracted to lads so you have to get changed there,’ which annoyed me, so every time PE was on I didn’t do it.”
She mentions that when encouraged to speak to the headmaster by a friend, she didn’t see a point in staying at school, because she was so exasperated by her treatment in English and PE classes. She transferred to a different school in year 10 to avoid the bullying.
One of the boys featured in the video said: “The first day that I knew that people knew [he was gay] was when they all crowded round me and threw things at me. I hit one of them and I got suspended.”
He said “It seems to me, sometimes that bullying on the grounds of racism or sexism, sometimes, is dealt with more seriously than homophobic bullying.
He adds: “I really hated school because every day was just constant insults and the teachers told you to just get over it.”
Another girl talks about not telling anybody about being bullied because she was scared to come out to the teaching staff...
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