A Study on Discrimination among Lgbtq Youth of Senior High School Students at Ettmnhs S.Y 2018-2019

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Schools should be a safe place for everyone but in the Philippines, students who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) have experienced discrimination (Human Rights Watch, 2017) and these abuses can cause deep and lasting harm (Human Rights Watch, 2017). Schools nationwide are hostile environments for a distressing number of LGBTQ students. The overwhelming majority of whom routinely hear anti-LGBTQ language and experience victimization and discrimination at school. Discrimination against LGBTQ individuals remains widespread in our country and in different countries, this leads the researchers to conduct research on this issue. In this study, the researchers explored the discrimination among LGBTQ youth senior high school students at Emiliano Tria Tirona Memorial National High School. As of now, there is no study about the discrimination of LGBTQ in the Emiliano Tria Tirona Memorial National High School community.

METHODS

In order to study the discrimination of LGBTQ, this descriptive research made use of the adopted instrument from Dau, D., and Strauss, P. (2016) entitled, “The Experience of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans Students at the University of Western Australia”. The respondents are 15 senior high school students, they were identified via stratified sampling.

RESULTS

Result of the discrimination among LGBTQ youth survey shows that discrimination can affect LGBTQ youth. On the other hand, the remarks of the discrimination on the LGBTQ youth revealed that most of the LGBTQ students who are discriminated felt nervous, alone, unwanted and restless. The overall results of survey data show that most of the students who have been discriminated felt its effect on their personhood and their emotional welfare.

DISCUSSIONS

The researchers know that majority of the respondents were negatively affected because of discrimination. This negative effect on the LGBTQ youth also expands on being excluded in school clubs at Emiliano Tria Tirona Memorial National High School. The respondents were also unfairly treated by the faculty staff, felt unwelcome in an academic subject, and most of the respondents felt that they are nervous, alone, unwanted and restless every time they experience discrimination. Majority of the respondents also experienced other forms of discrimination such as being treated unfairly by their classmate, verbally threatened, physically attacked, excluded in family, and this affected their ability to socialize because of the discrimination on their sexual orientation and gender identity expression.