LGTB at school meets Charo Alises, Human Rights lawer

     Charo Vázquez Alises is a very important lawer from Málaga who has worked defending civil and LGTB rights.
     She is the author of Homophobic bullying. Action guide (Marbella Town Hall 2017), co-author of Hate crimes. Practical guide for advocacy (Advocacy foundation 2018), LGTB hate crimes guide (Junta de Andalucía 2019).
     She has trained teachers and mainy others experts on bullying and has taken part in a big account of meetings about this topic. Moreover, she has a never-ending curriculum. For example, responsible of Human rights Commission for the Lawers Association in Málaga, coordinator of the legal assistance service for  Hate crimes victims, Amnesty International activist and...well, we coul be talking till tomorrow about her professional career. However, we want to mention here and to thank her extreme generosity for coming to our school just for free.
     She enjoys talking to students, which is very easy to verify, as they kept in silence while she was talking (and she talked a lot) about the law, about the origin of the Pride Day, about some important LGTB prominent personalities. She clarified concepts, ideas and she did it in the most gentle way.

Explaining the Pride Day Origins

Our students were absolutely delighted  with her talk.
Many of them had confessed before to ignore the meaning of some concepts we hear every day, such as intersexual or cis. Now they know their meaning. This is the first step to be tolerant and respectful.







This is what the students answered about the talked whe asked in an anonymous way.

 

                                                    THANK YOU !!!

LGTB DIAGNOSIS AT SCHOOL

     Before starting working on LGTB, we should know better where do we come from.
     La Rosaleda High School is located in Málaga (Spain). It started its activity in 1947 as a Vocational Training School. However, it has grown quite a lot through the time. In fact, at the present, we are more than 200 staff members and we offer many different educational modalities, including Baccalaureate. Concerning Baccalaureate our students can choose between Science, Social Science or Humanities.
     On the other hand, our students' profile is very varied. The youngest are 15 whereas we have also adult students. We have also different nationalities and many of them have economical difficulties.That's why this kind of projects allow them to discover new realities and opportunities. The reason why we started this project is becausewe want to encourage tolerance and to brake down biases. LGTB discrimination exists at the schools and it is even harder to bear when we are teenagers than when adults.

     However, before starting it is necessary to know which is exactly the current situation in our school. A diagnostic questionnaire has been carried out by the Psychology students among the Baccalaureat ones. They have interviewed a least the half of them and HERE THEY ARE THE RESULTS.

1.            Do you Know the meaning of these concepts?             

2.            Has the topic been dealt in your school?

3. Do you feel well informed about the topic of LGTBIQ+?

4. What do you know about the LGTBIQ+ rights in your country?

  a. They have the same rights as the rest of the citizens. 

  b. They have less rights as the rest of the citizens

  c. Their rights aren´t recognized at all 

  d. They have too much rights.

 

5. Do you know any famous LGTBIQ+ famous people?

 

 which is their profession?

 

6. Do you know if you have LGTB teachers in your school?

  7. How do you think LGTB students feel at school?                                    

                                        46%  They are morelikely to suffer bullying and discrimination  

                                             35% Nobody cares about their gender identity or sexual orientation

               11% They feel confortable as long as they hide it

8% Don't know

 8. Who, do you ythink, is more likely to be discriminated or rejected?

            

               9. Have you ever witnessed any discrimination against LGTBIQ+ in your school?

10. Do you think it should be allowed for same gender parents to have children?

a.    No, it isn't natural

b. Of course              

 c. Yes, but only excepcionally

         d. Yes, but they should be watched to avoid traumas

  

In the case of Germany the situation was a little bit different. Here they are their results:

Results diagnostic tests

1. What do these terms stand for?

LGTB- 100%

LGTBIQ+- 100%

trans-100%

cis-7%

heteronormative -25%

gender identity-70%

sexual orientation-100%

2. Has the topic been dealt with in your classes before?

        15% Yes, 85% No

3. Do you feel well informed about the topic of LGTBIQ+?- 

        27% Yes, 63%No

4. What do you know about the LGTBIQ+ rights in your country?

        9 students out of 68 very well informed, 17 no information, the rest some information

5. Do you know any famous LGTBIQ+ artists/famous people?

        ca. 70% could name some, 30% none

6. Do you feel free to address the topic in your class?

        ca. 85% Yes, 15%No

7. Do you (think you) have any LGTBIQ+ in your class?

        ca. 70% Yes, 30%No

8. If yes, do you think they feel comfortable and safe in your school environment?

        ca. 60% No, 40%Yes

9. Have you ever experienced discrimination against LGTBIQ+ in your school?

        ca. 10% Yes, 90%No

10. What do you expect the results of this project to be?

        different answers, mostly about inclusion and tolerance

11. What would you change in your school, in order to make the school friendlier to LGTBIQ+ people?

        different answers, mostly: workshops, more awareness about language