Letters: Alan Clark says LGBT education should be mandatory in all schools. Jill Wallis thinks sex education is both a right and a boon
Simon Jenkins agonises about the implications of LGBT education on parents, teachers and even on government ministers, but does not mention the most impacted group of all: LGBT pupils themselves . When I realised I was gay in the 1960s, I had absolutely nobody to turn to. Had just one person told me that I wasn’t sick, a criminal or a freak, it would have meant everything and spared me from years of lonely misery during what were supposed to be the best years of my life.
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