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Strategic steps in promoting gender diversity in South African high schools: A parental perspective on queering cisnormativity

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: It is important to note that transgender learners experienced gender discrimination, misgendering, and bullying at South African High Schools. Based on parental perspectives, this paper presents the strategies that can be used in South African high schools to promote gender diversity. This considers reconceptualisation of gender to enable parents to challenge the factors that act as barriers to the promotion of gender diversity and ensure that the schooling environment is an inclusive one for both trans and cis learners. This paper thus suggests a strategic step that can be used to queer religion and culture to promote gender diversity. This study provides strategies in a three-step guide that parents can use to transform South African high schools into more inclusive environments and to queer cisnormativity.

Source: International Journal of Studies in Psychology

DOI: 10.38140/ijspsy.v5i2.1749

Authors: John Chaka, Henry Nichols

Language: English

Topic: Gender, Sexuality, and Education

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Gender equality, Quality education

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4413252712

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