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The study also found that just over 60 to 65 per cent of students have been bullied at some point in their lives.Ī poll of more than 1,000 teachers found that nearly a quarter (23 per cent) of those in secondary and 12 per cent of primary teachers thought that bullying was such a severe issue where they worked that they would not be prepared to risk their own children’s well-being. The Child Protection and Family Services (CPFSA) has done studies and implemented campaigns, such as #BanTheBullying to help with addressing the issue on a national level.Ī study was done on peer bullying in schools in 2015 by the government agency, which highlighted that 70 per cent of bullying is happening on our playgrounds in our school environment. Hundreds of Jamaican children are now suffering silently as how McDuffus did, and Jamaica has no national programme which focuses primarily on the bullying and abuse of children who identify as LGBTQ+. He added: “I always had to defend myself and always be looking over my shoulders.” I live in a country where I am protected, so I feel empowered more to not only to speak up but to report such harassment,” he told The Gleaner.
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“I am comfortable in my skin now where I’m a proud gay man. He sought refuge in foreign country in 2018 and is happy the bullying phase of his life is behind him. This, he believes, was based on their protection policies and laws.Īfter being bullied for over 20 years, McDuffus got used to the harassment in Jamaica and focused his mind on leaving the tropical paradise. Thankfully, McDuffus got some relief from bullying when he started attending university in Jamaica.
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I would be untouchable if I was educated and in a position where I can afford certain luxury so I don’t have to deal with them,” he said. It made me more confident and made me more resilient, because the only way to deal with such things is to be a better person. “It didn’t affect my self-esteem actually. Unlike what many effeminate boys in Jamaica would say, McDuffus told The Gleaner that bullying did not affect his self-esteem. McDuffus also pointed out that being teased and bullied by his own relatives made him feel like the “black sheep” in his family. I was attacked in school and bullied like constantly,” he said. I had to stay away from school literally because I didn’t feel safe going to school at one point. “For all my years at Titchfield High, that’s where it was very bad. After moving to Portland at age 11, the bullying continued at Norwich Primary School and the Titchfield High School until 2009 when he graduated.
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McDuffus said persons at Red Hills All Age School would bully him because he was effeminate. Sign up for The Gleaner’s morning and evening newsletters. He added: “This continued into my school life where the bullying started when I was about seven, until I was about 17.” I always teased and picked on, because I was more effeminate growing up, so the assumption is that I was gay, so they teased and picked on me and I felt excluded from my family, so I started isolating from an earlier age since I was seven,” McDuffus told The Gleaner. “I was treated differently by some family members. McDuffus, now 32 years of age, recalls being called “every gay name a male in Jamaica can be referred with, such as ‘sissy’, ‘fish’, while living in the country. His effeminate traits while growing up, based on the way he dressed and demeanour, being polished, neat and fashionable, and the way he spoke formal unlike the Creole-speaking children in the communities he grew up in, made him become a direct victim of bullying. ELTON MCDUFFUS recalls being bullied since he was seven years old, not because he verbally expressed that he was sexually attracted to the same sex as he was, but because of how he spoke and acted.