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Should They Attend Boarding Schools? State Of LGBTQ Students To Be Known

BY Lynnet Okumu · May 13, 2022 01:05 pm

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The petition is a response to what the lobby groups call discrimination against students who identify as part of the LGBTQ community, and comes in the backdrop of Professor George Magoha’s controversial utterances concerning the same in December 2021.

A petition on the right of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) students to have an education and attend any school like the rest is set to be heard in court on 26th May 2022.

The petition is a response to what the lobby groups call discrimination against students who identify as part of the LGBTQ community, and comes in the backdrop of Professor George Magoha’s controversial utterances concerning the same in December 2021.

The CS Education stated that LGBTQ students should attend day schools rather than boarding schools to minimize and avoid the level of interaction with other students who do not identify as LGBTQ.

In reaction to the CS statement, the lobby groups took to the streets to protest, and since then they have termed Magoha as anti-LGBTQ.

The case which was mentioned on 25th April 2022, according to the National Gay and Lesbian and Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC), is still in its early stages but they are working to ensure they raise more awareness of the plight of the LGBTQ students.

“The commission is working with other organizations and parties to show the harmful effects of discrimination against learners based on their real or imputed sexual orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression”, said the lobby groups.

The lobby groups still forwarded a petition even after the CS clarified his statement, citing that he did not mean the students were to be expelled from school.

“We have no problems with homosexuals who do their business out in the streets. But if you are like the ones we have found, moving from one bed to another, then those one shall be day scholars”, said Magoha.

The LGBTQ community further demanded the CS to attend their training to broaden their knowledge of their experiences and lives.

The NGLHRC now seeks to be enjoined on petition 4 of 2022, which addresses the Right to Education and the best interest of juveniles presumed to be LGBTQ+.

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