All posts tagged "students"
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Trans Girl Wins Homecoming Queen, Sparking Hateful Outrage
Anti-transgender activists rage over an honor that is a gauge of a student's popularity, not a political statement.
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Florida Colleges to Fire Employees Who Use Gender-Affirming Restrooms
The Florida State Board of Education unanimously voted earlier this week impose harsher penalties for transgender student and staff at state colleges who are found...
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Court Rules Parents Can’t Challenge “Gender Support Plans”
Appeals court finds parents who objected to Montgomery County Public Schools' trans student policy lack standing to challenge it.
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Right-Wing Bigotry Hides Behind a Kid-Friendly Facade
The GOP's current cultural red-meat campaign against Trans youth is a fraud, as clear as it is cruel.
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Challenge to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” Law Dismissed
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging a Florida “parental rights” law restricting instruction on LGBTQ issues in schools, which opponents have dubbed the...
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LULAC Lambda Awards Scholarships to 3 LGBTQ Scholars
Last month, LULAC Lambda, the local LGBTQ and Latinx advocacy organization, honored three college students as part of its annual scholarship program, which is intended...
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Bill Allowing Teachers To Ignore Students’ Pronouns Stalls In Tennessee
Measure would have prioritized teachers' beliefs and views by allowing them to misgender and deadname trans students.
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School Board Could Fire Teacher Over Rainbow Stickers
A school board in Texas will soon decide whether to fire a teacher removed from school last year for placing rainbow stickers on her classroom...
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Texas Superintendent Removes Books Covering LGBTQ Issues from School Libraries
Recording from a Texas superintendent's meeting with school district library officials reveals anti-LGBTQ motivation behind recent book purge.
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Ohio Teacher Fired For Passing Out Pride Bracelets
A gay substitute teacher in Ohio claims he was fired for handing out Pride bracelets to some interested students. Jay Bowman, a teacher for 30...
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Student organizer of “Don’t Say Gay” protest suspended
The Florida high school student who organized a walkout to protest the state’s proposed “parental rights” bill, referred to by critics as the “Don’t Say...
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LGBTQ students are under attack. GLSEN’s Melanie Willingham-Jaggers is ready to fight back.
Melanie Willingham-Jaggers is taking the reins of LGBTQ advocacy organization GLSEN in the midst of rising bigotry in schools nationwide.
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Chasten Buttigieg: Florida Republicans are “pushing kids back into the closet”
Chasten Buttigieg has slammed Florida Republicans' effort to pass a "don't say gay" bill banning LGBTQ issues in schools
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High school survey asks if ‘queers’ should use bathrooms with ‘normal people’
Students at an Illinois high school asked their peers if "queers" should be allowed to use the bathrooms with "normal people"
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Florida teacher receives death threats after taking students to gay bar on field trip
A Florida teacher has received death threats for taking her students on an annual field trip to a gay bar and grill
