Plans to open the UK’s first specialist state school for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender pupils fills me with horror. Amelia Lee, strategic director for the charity LGBT Youth North West, which has drawn up the plans, said: “This is about saving lives. Despite the laws that claim to protect gay people from homophobic bullying, the truth is that, in schools especially, bullying is still incredibly common and causes young people to feel isolated and alienated, which often leads to truanting and, in the worst-case scenarios, to suicide.”
There has been some fierce opposition, including from gay rights charity Stonewall itself. Other opponents have labelled the project an exercise in segregation that undermines rather than promotes tolerance.
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