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. 

Read more about The Swedish Federation of LGBTQ Student Organizations

Read more about The Swedish Federation of LGBTQ Student Organizations in Uppsala 

Contact the Equity Officer at the Student Union