Introduction
In 2011, Hillary Clinton identifies sexuality as the “primary human rights struggle.” She delivered a speech to the United Nations on International Recognition of Human Rights Day (2011): “I am talking about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people, human beings born free and given bestowed equality and dignity, who have a right to claim that, which is now one of the remaining human rights challenges of our time” (U.S. Department of State 2011). The speech opened the way for recognition of the protections of LGBT human rights offered in some European and North American countries such as Canada and Norway (Schmidt et al. 2012). Historically, the human rights movement has focused, at different times, on the rights of racial minorities, people with disabilities, and women. Today it has expanded to include gender and sexual minorities/lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people (LGBT), who have constantly been facing sexual and transgender prejudice in their lives...
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This work was supported by HKRGC [grant number GRF18609415/18613418] and the Education University of Hong Kong [RG89-2016-2017R].
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Kwok, D.K. (2019). LGBT Students and Teacher Education. In: Peters, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Teacher Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1179-6_200-1
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