“I can't be gay, I can't be trans here”: institutionalised hetero-, cisnormativity in Singapore secondary schools and LGBTQ+ identities

• Main Author: Gan, Amelia Qiao Hui
• Other Authors: Sulfikar Amir
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2024
• Subjects: Social Sciences; Institutionalised heteronormativity; Institutionalised cisnormativity; Singapore; Secondary schools; LGBTQ+; Gender and sexual identities
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/176027
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...