特蕾莎·梅就School Diversity Week 2018发表致辞
Prime Minister's message for School Diversity Week 2018

To celebrate the launch of School Diversity Week 2018, the Prime Minister, Theresa May, recorded a video message of support for the teachers and pupils taking part. School Diversity Week is the national celebration of LGBT+ equality in education. Launched with the Secretary of State for Education in 2016, over 450,000 pupils and teachers across the UK are expected to mark School Diversity Week 2018.

Everyone has a right to feel safe and happy at school. But when you are coming to terms with your sexuality, the classroom, the playground and the common room can sometimes be intimidating places. Having visible role models, who have been there before and know how it feels, can help give a young person the confidence to embrace who they are. And they can encourage everyone in school to be positive and accepting. That's why I want to congratulate just Like Us for running School Diversity Week.

Thanks to the tireless work of campaigners like you, attitudes in this country have come a long way. But we all know there's more still to do. We need to eradicate homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying in schools, and challenge stigma and hostility wherever it exists in our society. And we need to speak up for the human rights of LGBT people around the world - as I did at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting last month. The truth is that we all do better - and our whole country is enriched - when we are free to be ourselves.

So I wish Just Like Us, and school diversity week 2018, every success