Posts tagged Safe Schools Coalition Victoria

FUNDING certainty for HIV rapid testing in Victoria has come as part of a suite of LGBTI-related budget announcements made today by the Victorian Government. …

The Victorian Government’s LGBTI health and wellbeing advisory committee is wrapping up as the state heads into next month’s election, but the community is divided over what it actually achieved.

Schools who sign on to the initiative that will be rolled out nationwide will receive training, resources and advice to help create a school environment free from homophobic and transphobic bullying.

A report into an incident involving the distribution of sexist and homophobic material by religious educators to students at a Victorian public school has found the provider was in breach of a number of Education Department policies.

A school in Ballarat, Victoria has reversed its decision to ban a student from taking a same-sex partner to her deb ball.

STRICTLY-enforced gender requirements for school uniforms are having a negative impact on the health and wellbeing of trans* and gender diverse students, according to leading …

WHEN Jess Panczel invited her girlfriend to her year 12 formal, she was surprised at the hostile reactions of her fellow students and even some …

ANTI-homophobia and transphobia advocates have called homophobic and sexist materials distributed in a Victorian primary school by Christian education provider Access Ministries “extremely damaging”. Religious …

THE recent Growing Up Queer report into the health and wellbeing of same-sex attracted and sex and gender diverse (SSASGD) young people found many participants saw …

 THE Victorian Labor Opposition has announced it will help fund the expansion of anti-homophobia and transphobia program Safe Schools Coalition Victoria if it wins the …