different sexual tendencies and identities. While young people themselves anticipated and resigned themselves to bullying at school, there was increased anger that school attitude of staff and wider school policies were unsupportive and indeed contributed towards homophobia (Formby 2013). Homophobic language is used in primary and secondary school and not always as form of abuse but rather in the context of scorn e.g the phrase ‘you’re so gay’ or ‘that’s so gay’ was reported to be heard by 95% of secondary and 75% of primary school teachers (

However in an American study there was found to be reduced bullying and harassment if school polices were such that were more accepting of LBGT and in particular if …. Group were present in schools. LGBT Youth Scotland aim to increase confidence in professionals to fufil the needs of young people and improve inclusion in education; affect decisions and increase LGBTI visibility in Scotland. The LGBT schools charter has been developed to assist schools to meet these legislative needs and ensuring inclusion and by achieving the charter means the school will be a positive message that ‘equality and diversity are at the heart of your school’ (https://lgbtyouth.org.uk/national-programmes/schools-and-teachers/lgbt-schools-charter/ ). Children and young people ought to be able to speak to those closest to them
including teachers, about gender and other issues, and should feel safe in seeking their help and support; similarly those professionals should be able to recognize when young people needs their help and supportand be confident in addressing these issues with them (Stonewall 2017). Educators should also seek to include the parental support, as appropriate, to help to diminish any feelings of isolation and powerlessness and increase self esteem, which will go a long way to tackle dysfunction within education and remove the temptation of self harm and suicide (Sronewall 2017). School policy needs to support this rhetoric or teachers will not feel empowered to take on this responsibility and will have the effect of keeping young people silent (Lipkin 2018) and with this can lead to unfavourable consquences(..
In Scotland in a move towards inclusion of young transgender people, new guidelines from LGBT Scotland that would allow transgender pupils to share a changing area with others of the same g