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Equality and Sexual Orientation

The Uppsala Student Union works to make the university a gender equal environment.

The students right to an environment free from discriminations is directed
in the law against discrimination (Diskrimineringslag 2008:567). 

Sexual harassment:

If a teacher or another student strokes your bum it can be a form of
sexual harassment, but it is important to remember that all
inappropriate behaviour concerning sex is sexual harassment. What you
are exposed to doesn’t have to be physical, though, to count as sexual
harassment. It can also be unwelcome text messages, proposals to meet
in private, comments upon your body or clothes or remarks on what men
and women can or should do.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students:

The Uppsala Student Union works to make sure that all students have the
rights and possibilities to accomplish as much as possible. Research
within this area shows that students who don’t feel addressed to by the
course literature, accomplish less than others. This concerns not in
the least students who doesn’t have the sexual orientation, gender
identity or body apprehension that often is described as the only
existing. Through literature examinations and student reports we know
that some teachers are narrow in their approach to these questions and
that literature is used as objective when it is highly characterised by
heteronormativity and that the world’s population is described as only
belonging to two sexes who are always attracted to each other.
This
is about quality on the education, to have the right to get a picture
as correct as possible of the world and that students have the right
not to be offended or overlooked in their education.