“I can't be gay, I can't be trans here”: institutionalised hetero-, cisnormativity in Singapore secondary schools and LGBTQ+ identities
In a predominantly conservative Singapore where heterosexuality and cisgenderism along a gender binary remain the social norms, secondary education and schools have emerged as highly contested and problematised yet largely uninvestigated sites of institutionalised heteronormativity/cisnormativity...
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| Format: | Final Year Project |
| Language: | English |
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Nanyang Technological University
2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/176027 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | In a predominantly conservative Singapore where heterosexuality and cisgenderism
along a gender binary remain the social norms, secondary education and schools have
emerged as highly contested and problematised yet largely uninvestigated sites of
institutionalised heteronormativity/cisnormativity (IHC) that render Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
Transgender, Queer/Questioning and other (LGBTQ+) individuals locally invisible and
unseen, silenced and unheard, ostracised and unspoken about during their formative years.
Through semi-structured interviews, this study aims to better understand how LGBTQ+
individuals have experienced IHC in their secondary education, and how such experiences
have influenced their sense of gender and sexual self-identities during their formative years.
The study’s findings highlight that LGBTQ+ individuals experience IHC in schools as a form
of biopower that enforces conformity of their bodily performances and identities along hetero- and
cisnormative lines via various ways on multiple levels, contributing to highly adverse
impacts on LGBTQ+ individuals’ sense of gender and sexual identities. |
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