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

T: {Oh no don’
V: …ok, it’s basically what I was saying to you the other night.
AM: Ok, anyone else got any comments about what they feel?
B: Um…
AM: {It’s like therapy isn’t it – how do you feel?!
B: …I’ve not come out yet, so cos if I did I’d get treated like [//]
AM: {Whether you are out or not is something that is on the little tick box at the end that
I’ll hand out.
T: (inaudible)
V: In a way…
AM: {Go on Von, finish us off. Go on!
V: …I’m just trying to I don’t know how to word it, its in my head but I don’t know how
to [//] from like the difference at school and saying that I was going to fail and then at like
college and I had lots of crap at college and yeah granted myself dropped out and then I
got myself back on my feet and I went on to Rathburns which is a training course and I
am stuck in a room full of homophobic idiots who which is, a load of bollocks basically
(inaudible) like constantly, but I’m determined to stick it through cos I had like crap at
coll, I had crap at high school, went to college and did a childcare and childcare students
aren’t the nicest of students anyway, they were little dolly girls who were only there to
get their EMA…
T: {and there all um heterosexual just cos you have to be…
V: {yes!}
T: {…heterosexual to do childcare
V: {Oh yeah of course!
T: {or you’re a peido
V: …yeah, that has actually happened to me before. Um and now I’m even though I hate
the class that I am in, I’m determined to stick it out just to prove to people that I can do it
and I’m getting on really really well in at and I’m like I started 3 months later than
everyone else and I’m not being big headed now but I’ve caught up, I’ve caught up with
them and I’m passing and stuff.
AM: That’s brilliant, thanks.