YEAR 12, NUMBER 4, 31 DECEMBER 2019

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> 11 December 2019 - The Cambodian Ministry of Education has decided students of 13 and older will receive sexual education from 2020 on. The course will consist of seven modules and include attention to bullying and LGBT discrimination. The move puts Cambodia at the forefront of LGBT education in Southeast Asia. Thailand was the first Asian nation to include sexual diversity in the curriculum.

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> 30 December 2019 - Students from European countries met in Greece to exchange ideas on how to trigger discussions about sexual diversity among fellow students. The meeting was exciting due to the cultural differences, but also because of the differences in sexual identities of the students. Most students decided to work on a video to trigger discussions, but some also had some additional campaigning ideas...

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> 27 September 2019 - With over 100 participants and an equal number of people following the HOMBAT conference on homophobic and transphobic bullying online, the event was a great success. The conference “Combatting HT bullying is schools” was the final event of the HOMBAT project, which trained over 600 teachers and school counselors in Greece, Cyprus and Lithuania. The trainers were trained and coached by GALE.

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> 20 December 2019 - Fiji President Filimoni Vuli Waqa announced to local media that he would not be opposed to trans people participating in athletics events under their gender. He was commenting on potentially allowing transgender athletes to compete in the girls category of the Fiji secondary school athletics competition.[

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> 24 December 2019 - In recent weeks, foreign teachers at private schools in Indonesia have been required to answer a series of ridiculous in what the schools called “a psychological exam”. The goal was to determine if teachers were gay, bi or lesbian, or if their attitudesa were favorable towards LGBT rights. Since 2015, the Indonesian government prohibits international schools from hiring foreign teachers who have “an indication of abnormal sexual behavior or orientation.”

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