Interrogating the orientation toward anti-homophobic/transphobic bullying procedures in primary schools

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dc.contributor.authorNeary, Aoife
dc.contributor.editorPayne, Elizabethe
dc.contributor.editorSmith, Melissa J.
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-11T12:50:04Z
dc.date.available2026-03-11T12:50:04Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractAll children of primary school age are processing societal messages about gender and sexuality diversity in their everyday lives. Indeed, in early childhood, most children’s relationships to gender and sexuality are fluid and many children of primary school age are identifying as LGBTQ+. Yet, despite these lived experiences of gender and sexuality diversity, there are very often deep silences around this topic in primary schools. Amid these silences, gender and sexuality norms are continuously produced and policed in multifaceted ways by primary school communities with discourses of “childhood innocence” and “age appropriateness” playing a significant part in restricting how primary schools approach gender and sexuality diversity. Such concepts reproduce uncertainty, confusion, and reluctance about when and how LGBTQ+ lives ought to become visible in primary schools. They also fuel and mobilize moral panics about “promoting” LGBTQ+ lives or the notion that a child might be somehow “recruited” to identify as LGBTQ+.en
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dc.identifier.authororcidNeary, Aoife§0000-0003-1196-6487
dc.identifier.authororcidPayne, Elizabethe
dc.identifier.authororcidSmith, Melissa J.
dc.identifier.citationNeary, A 2025, Interrogating the orientation toward anti-homophobic/transphobic bullying procedures in primary schools. in E Payne & M J Smith (eds), Queer Kids and Social Violence. University of Minnesota Press, Minnesota, pp. 252-279.
dc.identifier.endpage279
dc.identifier.isbn9781452974446
dc.identifier.isbn9781452974446
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-1196-6487/work/208199564
dc.identifier.startpage252
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/18624
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Minnesota Press
dc.relation.ispartofQueer Kids and Social Violence
dc.relation.urihttps://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105023723696
dc.rights© 2025 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved.
dc.rights.accessrightsopen access
dc.statusPeer reviewed
dc.subjectBullying
dc.subjectDiversity
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectPrimary school
dc.subjectSexuality
dc.subject[Education]
dc.titleInterrogating the orientation toward anti-homophobic/transphobic bullying procedures in primary schoolsen
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