Gay students who infringe on the rights of other students, according to Kenya’s education minister, should not be permitted to attend residential schools.
Instead, Prof. George Magoha suggested that gay students who are “going from one bed to another” be allowed to day schools.
While he had nothing against LGBT children, he said that keeping them in day schools would allow their parents to monitor them more closely.
It comes after a male pupil at a boarding high school in Nairobi was allegedly sodomized.
The statement made by the education minister has garnered a varied response online.
Certain Kenyans believe the minister’s remarks are discriminatory, while others believe that some LGBT students are intruding on the rights of other pupils.
On Monday, the minister clarified that his previous statement was misinterpreted as implying that LGBT pupils should be expelled from boarding institutions.
Mr Magoha was quoted in December as saying that “gay and lesbian children must attend day schools near to their homes.”
The comment provoked protests in Nairobi, which were organized by the queer community.
BBC