Non-Normative Gender and Sexual Identities in Schools: - Schools Out

AM: …think, well actually fuck you.
V: Yeah, yeah it was it was they were like you’re gonna fail there’s no point in you going
in, you might as well just go, go go and get a job now, go and join Rathburns now, cos
you’re not going to get into college now, you’re not going to be able to do the courses
which you want, which made me think, no I’m gonna prove you wrong, which I did do…
T: {Teacher set up a meeting…}
V: ...which made feel good…
T: {…like for my SATS cos like I failed them all I I just had a big like with (inaudible)
one of my teachers cos like it’s stupid when your failing cos you’re cos it’s something
you are and you cant help being that thing so people just judge you on it and then …
V: {basically people are arsholes}
T: …yeah everybody’s got a knobhead inside of them!
U: People just don’t understand.
D: They need to do more at school to make people aware of it. I mean that it’s not
something not normal.
AM: That’s a very good point.
H: It is just that ignorance.
T: Yeah but aren’t most people, aren’t people like born bi-sexual anyway, like if they get
given the chance to choose…
V: {Isn’t it, isn’t it like how you’re brought up, like and how, what environment you’re
subjected to like whether you can show different feelings towards different [//] no that
just a load of bollocks…
AM: {Yeah I mean I think that’s….
T: {yeah but also like you know when your parents are homophobic does it not like, feel
like, turn you that bit like that way cos you wanna be a bit rebellious [//] cos its like…
U: {laughs [//] at school…
V: {Well apparently I’m only gay cos I’m trying to split my Dads side of the family up}
U: …at school…
T: {Apparently I’m only being gay cos my Dad was…
V: {it’s a phase}