Exclusion of LGBT From Higher Education

Abstract

When it comes to educational inclusion, there isn't much discourse or arrangement for LGBT students. LGBT students often feel unsafe on campus and in the classrooms. They are the victims of targeted verbal and physical harassment by their teachers and peers in forms such as statements made by teachers and peers or the outright rejection of their existence. The present descriptive study explored how the major stakeholders of higher education, that is, how teachers, parents, and students perceive the LGBT individuals in their classrooms and campus spaces. The findings pertaining to perception of teachers towards LGBT students highlighted that higher education teachers do not have much knowledge about the lives of LGBT individuals. The higher education campuses are ill prepared and poorly equipped towards the facilitation of LGBT individuals. Higher education curriculum in a majority of the institutions included as a part of this study was found to be gender insensitive.