'I want my sexuality, gender or whatever not be looked not as politics, I just want to be a person,' one young person said in the study.
The report made 14 recommendations, including that students are offered the option of an all-gendered bathroom at school.A report by the NSW youth advocate reveals some of the problems faced at school by LGBTQI students.Every NSW school should have an all-gendered bathroom and reference diverse genders and sexualities in sex education classes, a new report recommends.
Another said they were expelled from their Catholic school during their first term after a fellow student outed them to the principal. Those youth were statistically less likely to give a positive rating for how they felt about their life as a whole, as well as how they felt about their life "these days".
The NSW Advocate for Children and Young People, Zoe Robinson, said progress had been made across the state but "there is a lot, still, to achieve".
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