Sadly, I attended one from ages 11 up to 18. As you can probably imagine, it was rife with misogyny and homophobia. And being trans* while being in a same-sex school only made the experience even more hostile.

But yeah, I was wondering who else here attended one.

From grades 6-12 I went to an all guys catholic military school. It was one of the most homophobic places I have ever seen, and from what I saw coming out as homosexual was like a death sentence.

I went to an all boys junior school from 7 to 11 I didn't see any homophobia as we didn't know anything about being gay or trans.I don't think there were any other LGBT kids there.

I went to an all girls' school, and well, I'm cis. But it wasn't that homophobic or anything. There were quite a few girls who were out or at least questioning (myself included) and not treated badly for it. And I'm pretty sure there were a couple of trans guys in our midst. :/ Maybe it's just the difference between all girls and all guys, or maybe my school was pretty liberal?

I went to a all guys high school. I had a sexual relationship during high school and was scared to death the entire time.

One thing that I remember that was outstanding was standing in a crowd of boys pretending to watch the pin ball machine.  I could feel their body heat and excitement through my skin, ears and nose.

I was alone among 2200 boys.

Yeah, I go to an all-girls school.

Kia Ora,

I attended an all boys high school, which can at times be a little awkward when talking about ones experience at school to cis people  who are unaware of my past life (especially when discussing the old school uniform)...

Metta Zenda  

I was a border student in an all boys English Public school of renown. Its a unique experience yet, I would never do that to any of my children.

Single sex school. I still find myself questioning whether those years (11-18) had anything to do with my current gender predicament. Some days I really do wonder if being cut off from females during those formative years has turned me into this person with gender issues - like whether the absence of girls made me so curious and so deprived and so empty that these gender issues are some kind of perverse reaction.

I went to an all boys catholic high school (not my choice, my parents totally insisted on it over my preference) hated the whole four years out of touch with females except at school dances when girls from nearby schools were invited for them. This probably was a major part of screwing up my life in so far as social interaction is concerned. Gym class was the worst!

Not a single-sex school per se, but a boarding school that, naturally, had separate housing for boys and girls. Living in an house full of boys does invoke rather similar homophobic and conformist connotations as a single-sex school...

I went to a single sex private school as a boarder for the last two year before uni.
It was the only option I had and was a very bad experience for me.

I chose it for swimming and I improved out of sight to top national levels. Lots of early mornings and late nights in the pool.
I sort of chose to isolate myself as a way to cope, due to how bad it was, not that it was easy either.

In a way I was abandoned by my dad who went overseas for work, so it was very hard all up and I try not to remember what happened during that part of my life.

J

I was so close to going to an all-girls grammar school. My mother had been there and was keen for me to go to. I passed the test to get in, but we lived quite far away so I was spared. And I am so, so relieved that I did not end up there. It would have been horrible!

And, it's strange, I have a number of aquaintances from single-sex boarding schools and most of those I know (in contrast to what a few others have said about homophobia in such environments) are either gay or bisexual. And if they're not then they're totally cool with those who are. I just presumed that lack of the opposite gender necessitated alternatives.

Thankfully, no. It'd be my worst nightmare. School was bad enough as it was because our schools were strictly gender-segregated so I wasn't allowed to socialise with other boys but at least I could see them; there's no way I could've coped with an all-girl school. *shudder*

Funnily enough, the girls that attended all-girl schools where I grew up tended to be the sort who got into a lot of trouble, particularly with teenage pregnancy, drugs and alcohol abuse. I've always believed that single-sex schools are a very unhealthy environment; after all, we don't live in a single-sex world so it would make it more difficult to form meaningful relationships.

I went to an all-female college for a year. It was fine, lots of lesbians, butch and femme. I just didn't quite fit in 100%.

Like one or two others I didn't go to a single-sex school, but in my first few years there it was predominantly female as prior to my joining it had been a girls only school, with boys having an entirely separate building the other end of the grounds.  They'd been joined due to money issues quite a few years before I joined, but the year I joined was the first year that there was a boy in every year group, and it wasn't until my third year that there had ever been a head boy.  I also spent quite a lot of my time boarding in an all female house, which was strange to say the least.  There were so many things I couldn't understand about living there, like the routine, or the openness about monthly things.

Strictly speaking I suppose the house wasn't all female even with the exception of me, the housemaster was male.  And I did spend an unusual amount of time talking to him compared to every body else, when I wasn't escaping or chasing down the member of staff I had a major crush on... lol.

Now I'm on an entirely male college course, but there are females around.  And god do I feel sorry for them when they walk into our lessons.  I have to say that the atmosphere is much more 'me' here though.

Maybe I'm different. The school thought it was a single sex all male Christian brother school. It wasn't until later that I told them it had been co-ed from the day I was enrolled as a pupil.

Took pleasure in telling then that as well!

Cindy

You can add me to the list, went to a christian brothers boys school from year 4-12. A friend of mine now teaches there and has apparently discovered that I'm not the first 'old girl' they've had..

Wasn't the greatest experience, and I certainly felt alone and isolated at times, but I made a wonderful set of friends that have been my biggest supporters.

All boys Catholic high school from 1984 to 1988. Not a fun time.

I had totally forgotten about this; My school was also religious, and I remember one year for religion class my friends and I did a research presentation on Brandon Teena and the hate crimes perpetrated against him. I don't remember what the topic was covering per se (I think it had to do with hate crimes?), but I remember that transgender issues was specifically one of the things we could choose to present on. Another group chose gay/lesbian/bisexual issues and reported on Matthew Shepard. I guess my school really was pretty liberal?