It sparked a debate on the discrimination that students who identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) are facing in schools.
Recently, an 18-year-old junior college student alleged that the ministry had prevented her from obtaining a doctor's referral letter to begin hormone replacement therapy. Some of the placards read “#Fix schools not students” and “Why are we not in your sex ed”. On Tuesday (Jan 26) afternoon, images circulating on social media showed five young people outside the building along Buona Vista Drive holding up placards, a rainbow-coloured pride flag and a transgender flag with pale-pink and blue stripes. SINGAPORE - Three people, aged 19 to 32, were arrested after they staged a protest outside the headquarters of the Ministry of Education (MOE), the police said. Singaporean writer and playwright Ng Yi-Sheng was among the five who gathered but he and another person later left.
A group later issued a statement to say it wanted Education Minister Lawrence Wong to end discrimination against LGBTQ+ students.When the police arrived, only three of them were there.Five people had gathered outside MOE’s headquarters holding placards and flags on Jan 26.