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LGBTQ+ international students in Australia are struggling with unmet aid, new study finds

LGBTQ+ international students in Australia are expressing fear in disclosing their queer identities, as they are scared the truth will alienate them from their peers, faculty, and even the government. 

Xin Hu and Catherine Flynn, researchers at Monash University in Australia, recently conducted a study with queer international students which explored their experiences and barriers when accessing help, especially in terms of their mental health. Xin Hu is also a gender-fluid identifying migrant from China with lived experience as a queer international student.

Primary data collection from the interviewees was done via in-depth interviews, both face-to-face and online, with the first author. Snowball sampling, where data was taken from other research subjects recruited by the primary subjects, was also gathered via flyers to local universities, LGBTQ+ services, International Student sustain services, and social media channels.

Three Asian students spoke about facing di

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Is there a place for trans students in religious schools? These schools say yes

Theo Boltman's coming of age has coincided with an often divisive political debate in Canberra.

Key points:

  • The government's religious discrimination bill has been shelved until after the federal election 
  • Moderate Liberal MPs rebelled over the lack of protection for transgender students from being discriminated against by religious schools 
  • Some religious schools have welcomed transgender students and say discrimination is unacceptable

Theo was 11 during the same-sex marriage postal vote. They came out as gay at 13, then later realised it "didn't verb like enough".

The gender divisions of "boy" and "girl" at college felt "painful and annoying". Gendered spaces felt uncomfortable.

Last year, Theo came to a realisation.

"I can't keep changing my mind and conflicting myself with my body my entire life, so I just decided to jump off the diving board and approach out [as trans]," they told

Now 16, Theo defines themself as non-b

Walking the Talk: LGBTQ Allies in Australian Secondary Schools

Introduction

The problematic nature of social and academic participation in school communities for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) youth often involves how stigmatizing relational dynamics become the dominant narrative during the compulsory years of schooling Callingham, However, as attitudes and expressions toward (homo)sexuality are being increasingly influenced by and connected to wider discourses happening beyond the school gates, the increased representation of sexual identities in the public domain suggests the significance of famous culture in peer cultures for providing teachable moments about LGBTQ lives. Dyer (, p. ) notes how, It is within culture that homosexual identities are formed, and as sexual diversity is increasingly made visible in mainstream popular culture, the presence of LGBTQ identity, it could be argued, is increasingly queering the quotidian. The diaspora of queer characters flowing off the screen into living rooms is, as Eng (, p. 4) notes, providing new