"True Color": Level of Acceptability the Grade 12 Students of the Lgbt Community at Taytay SHS

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Students who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) are more likely to suffer from different abuse and violence inside the school and even in their own home. Inside the schools, nothing is more significant than making the institution safer and secure. This means guaranteeing their right to participate and be involved in different school activities. Although we have a law that is strongly written on the paper, like the Child Protection Policy and Anti-Bullying Act of 2013, with implementing policies that state that sexual orientation and gender identity is not a ground for bullying and harassments, still, it is inadequately enforced. Hence, this study sought to surface the acceptability level of the G-12 students at Taytay Senior HighSchool.

METHODS

The researchers used descriptive statistics, frequency table to take a broad view of the finding or study. Quantitative is a research type wherein the findings can be generalized as long as it is based on a sufficient sized random sample.This study uses a survey questionnaire to be specific on a Likert scale. The respondents of this study are grade-12 students of Taytay Senior High School. This study used a non-probability sampling, wherein the probability of each element is unknown (purposive and convenient). Out of 30 respondents, 23 are females with a percentage of 76.67%, 2 are males with a percentage of 6.67%, 3 are gays with a percentage of 10% and only 1 bisexual with a percentage of 3.33%.

RESULTS

The majority of the respondents clearly agreed with the statement that everyone has the right to express individual identities and speak-out issues regard sexual orientation that is free from fear of discrimination, violence, intimidation, and prosecution. The level of acceptability of Grade 12 Students at Taytay Senior High School toward LGBT and its issues are high. The students are aware of the uniqueness of the individual. Students are tolerant of their relationship together with the LGBT community. In addition, this study concludes that religion and religious beliefs are related to how the individual accepts the LGBT people. Lastly, this study finds out that religion influence a lot of people that causes them to have fair treatment and biases among LGBT.

DISCUSSIONS

The community thatpromotes and fights for the rights of LGBT makes the youth become aware and make some effort to create and implement a project that centered on the welfare of the LGBT students in order for the community to accept them.