So damn pissed off right now. I didn’t see this until today, but Korean schools have been banned from teaching about any uality but heterouality. All LGBT information has been removed from schools. On 29^th March all education offices in every city and province were told, “Teaching about homouality is not permitted.” Schools are no longer allowed to even use any term that’s lesbian, gay or bi; no words was are non-heteroual.

Human rights groups condemned the move, and an official for the Ministry of Health said, “It is urgent that we create -ed standards that move away from abstinence education, but staunch opposition from conservative groups to the initial draft made it difficult to reach a compromise.” Other people who aren't hateful bigots have also spoken out about this, and demand that LGBT students are protected under law.

The ban comes from the Korean Association of Church Communication and other Christian groups, who not long ago (December) successfully blocked a law that would have made homophobia and transphobia illegal under a proposed anti-discrimination law. Due to harsh backlash from anti-quality Christians, discrimination based on ual orientation and gender identity was taken off the list, and so individuals and businesses can discriminate against gays, lesbians, biuals and transuals as much as they like. Korean LGBT group Rainbow Action protested in a sit-in, holding rainbow flags and saying, “To ual minorities, human rights mean life.”

This is not the first time conservative Christians in Korea have tried to stamp out equality. It seems every year they are boosting their political power with homophobia and transphobia, and have and still try to scrap anti-discrimination rules in universities. They even made Lady Gaga’s concert only available to over 18s because, in their words, “Anywhere Lady Gaga goes, homouality is legalized.” (Homouality is legal in Korea, but there are no laws protecting people from homophobia.)

Conservative Christians seem to hold a lot power over the administrative and legislative agencies in Korea, and many government officials are doing nothing about it, or worse; agreeing with their hateful propaganda. The Korean government keeps shrugging off LGBT equality as, “An issue of controversy.”

A Law and Policy Research Group for ual Orientation and Gender Identity survey in 2014 found that 45.7% of LGBTI South Koreans under the age of 18 had attempted suicide.