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Charlie Middleton, ambassador for the LGBT+ young people's charity Just Like Us, writes about the historical trans icons missing from schoolbooks.

The mental health crisis among young LGBTQ+ people calls for our action Dominic Arnall, Chief Executive of Just Like Us, discusses the importance of inclusive education in schools and how it can impact the mental health of young LGBTQ+ pupils. WORDS BY DOMINIC ARNALL, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF JUST LIKE US 11th May 2021 Dominic Arnall, Chief Executive of Just Like Us Growing up bisexual and closeted, I struggled with finding my place in the world and failing to meet expectations placed on me to ‘fit in’. As LGBTQ+ adults, many of us have survived coming out struggles, difficulties in finding...

5 books that helped me embrace being bisexual “I wouldn’t be here today without those dog-eared copies of Jeanette Winterson and Virginia Woolf novels rattling around in my backpack.” WORDS BY SOPHIE CUNDALL, A JUST LIKE US AMBASSADOR 22nd January 2021 Picture the scene: wild horses roaming free, pubs bursting at the seams and donkeys in car parks. Pretty bucolic but, also, pretty white, pretty heterosexual and pretty cisgender. This is the environment I grew up in – a tiny town in southern England. As you can imagine, there was a distinct lack of LGBTQ+ role models so I turned, as so...

"Whether or not you are LGBTQ+, you have an important role to play in this," says Dominic Arnall, Chief Executive of Just Like Us.

YOUNG people in Bournemouth are at the forefront of a new campaign demonstrating the need for more LGBT+ inclusive education in schools. The #YoungerMe campaign, created by Just Like Us, the charity for LGBT+ young people, launches on December 9 and will raise awareness that growing up LGBT+ is still challenging and tough. The online campaign will run at a time when young people are facing increasing isolation over Christmas, worsened by coronavirus restrictions. Several LGBT+ young people – who are ambassadors for the charity and give talks in schools in Bournemouth and across the ...