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The goal of the study is to examine how pedagogical personnel in Fenno-swedish elementary schools in Finland's capital region perceive the appearance of social norms among the students, as well as how the personnel themselves handle these social norms and whether or not they feel that materials and tools for education regarding social norms are made readily available. The study is based on semi-structured interviews with participants based on a fenomenological approach, and uses a thematic content analysis to clarify the answers given to the interview-questions. The study aims to answer following questions: How do pedagogical personnel handle the reigning hetero- and cis-normativity? How do pedagogical personnel experience the social norms regarding gender and sexuality that are established in the school? How do pedagogical personnel experience the availability of material for education regarding norms and the LGBTQ+-dimension? The pedagogical personnel experiences that the schools where they work has an open discussion-climate regarding social norms touching on gender and sexuality, and that the municipalities in general do good work with further education and creation of possibilities to education regarding social norms. They experience some discomfort or reluctance among a minority of pedagogical personnel regarding the subject, but mean that the majority is open and willing to learn more. Among the students, the personnel experience a high level of awareness regarding social norms on gender and sexuality, but older thought-patterns and also name-calling touching on gender and sexuality remain and are often used even when students do not know what the words mean. An active work is done with the students to increase their understanding for what the words they use mean. The pedagogical personnel also experiences that although material and tools exist and are available, they need further support from the student healthcare, which is made difficult when positions in that sector are being cut down.