Transgender students face a high rate of bullying and harassment in schools
Filed by: Alex Blaze
March 19, 2009 2:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/03/transgender_students_face_a_high_rate_of.phpGLSEN has a new report out that asked nearly 300 trans students about how they're getting along in school:
Nearly nine out of 10 transgender students experienced verbal harassment at school in the past year because of their sexual orientation and gender expression, more than half experienced physical harassment because of their sexual orientation and gender expression and more than a quarter experienced physical assault because of their sexual orientation and gender expression.
High school is already hard enough, but throw that level of harassment into the mix and it can drive most people to just stay home or drop out of school. The worst thing is that teachers usually don't do anything to help.
