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Until all students feel safe in TCG, we will continue to celebrate Stand Up Week and raise awareness all year round. This is part of our Bí cínealta policy.
Some highlights for Stand Up Week 2025, are staff showing they stand with all our students by wearing rainbow pins, and sharing what stand up means to them. Check out the rainbow stairs and updated Wellbeing noticeboard in Croí na Scoile. Students are also invited to watch a film with LGBTQIA+ and allies in St Davids on Wednesday at 1.15 and on Friday we celebrate our colours day and the inclusive club will host the GCC club.
Some highlights for Stand Up Week 2025, are staff showing they stand with all our students by wearing rainbow pins, and sharing what stand up means to them. Check out the rainbow stairs and updated Wellbeing noticeboard in Croí na Scoile. Students are also invited to watch a film with LGBTQIA+ and allies in St Davids on Wednesday at 1.15 and on Friday we celebrate our colours day and the inclusive club will host the GCC club.
Why is Stand Up still important in 2025?
LGBTQIA+ Supports
LGBT Irelandhttps://lgbt.ie/
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BeLong Tohttps://www.belongto.org/
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SpunOuthttps://spunout.ie/help/service/lgbt-helpline
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What is an ally?
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LGBTIA+ terminology
LGBTI+ terminology can feel like a minefield when you have no previous knowledge, and terms change over time. We have put together a glossary of common words to get you started. Please remember that the best way to determine someone’s preferred identity or pronoun is to simply ask them.
LGBTI+: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans+ and intersex people.
Lesbian: A woman who is attracted to other women. Some non-binary people may also identify with this term.
Gay: Someone who is attracted to people of the same gender.
Bisexual: Someone who is attracted to more than one gender e.g. both men and women.
Pansexual: Someone whose romantic and/or sexual attraction towards others is not limited by sex assignment, gender identity or gender expression.
Queer: An umbrella term used to describe people who are not heterosexual and/or
cisgender. Queer was used as a slur against the LGBTQ+ community for many
years and still can be. However, the word has been reclaimed by LGBTQ+
communities and many now embrace the term. Check if someone is comfortable
with this term before referring to them as queer.
Asexual/Ace: Someone who experiences limited or no sexual attraction.
Transgender: A term describing a person’s gender identity that does not match their assigned sex at birth. This word is also used as an umbrella term to describe some groups of people who transcend conventional expectations of gender identity or expression.
Intersex: This is an umbrella term used to describe a wide range of natural bodily variations that do not fit typical binary notions of male and female bodies, for example, variations in genetic, hormonal, or physical sex characteristics.
Sexual Orientation: Sexual and romantic attraction.
Gender identity: Our deeply felt internal experience of our own gender.
Heterosexual: Someone who is attracted to people of a different gender.
LGBTQ+ bullying: Bullying based on prejudice or discrimination towards LGBTI+ people.
Gender expression: How we show our gender through our clothing, hair, behaviour, etc.
Cisgender: Someone who is not transgender or non-binary.
Non-binary: People whose gender identity is neither exclusively woman or man or is in between or beyond the gender binary.
LGBTI+: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans+ and intersex people.
Lesbian: A woman who is attracted to other women. Some non-binary people may also identify with this term.
Gay: Someone who is attracted to people of the same gender.
Bisexual: Someone who is attracted to more than one gender e.g. both men and women.
Pansexual: Someone whose romantic and/or sexual attraction towards others is not limited by sex assignment, gender identity or gender expression.
Queer: An umbrella term used to describe people who are not heterosexual and/or
cisgender. Queer was used as a slur against the LGBTQ+ community for many
years and still can be. However, the word has been reclaimed by LGBTQ+
communities and many now embrace the term. Check if someone is comfortable
with this term before referring to them as queer.
Asexual/Ace: Someone who experiences limited or no sexual attraction.
Transgender: A term describing a person’s gender identity that does not match their assigned sex at birth. This word is also used as an umbrella term to describe some groups of people who transcend conventional expectations of gender identity or expression.
Intersex: This is an umbrella term used to describe a wide range of natural bodily variations that do not fit typical binary notions of male and female bodies, for example, variations in genetic, hormonal, or physical sex characteristics.
Sexual Orientation: Sexual and romantic attraction.
Gender identity: Our deeply felt internal experience of our own gender.
Heterosexual: Someone who is attracted to people of a different gender.
LGBTQ+ bullying: Bullying based on prejudice or discrimination towards LGBTI+ people.
Gender expression: How we show our gender through our clothing, hair, behaviour, etc.
Cisgender: Someone who is not transgender or non-binary.
Non-binary: People whose gender identity is neither exclusively woman or man or is in between or beyond the gender binary.
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Stand Up Week
During Stand Up Week 2019 we were honored to have Archer Bradshaw in 6th year share his excellent and moving TedTalk during assembly and he rightly received a standing ovation from the students and staff . Watch his TedTalk below.
Students of East Glendalough were kind and brave enough to share their advice and experiences with us at assembly for #StandUpWeek. They spoke of promoting tolerance & acceptance of LGBTIQ+ in our school communities.
TCG & the EGS Open Minds group also met for discussions and cupcakes, demonstrating how we value the differences in one another, encouraging us all to be our true selves.
Students of East Glendalough were kind and brave enough to share their advice and experiences with us at assembly for #StandUpWeek. They spoke of promoting tolerance & acceptance of LGBTIQ+ in our school communities.
TCG & the EGS Open Minds group also met for discussions and cupcakes, demonstrating how we value the differences in one another, encouraging us all to be our true selves.
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