Americans Divided on Use of Chosen Pronouns in Schools, Survey Finds
Legislation and public opinion clash over student pronoun recognition.
September 21, 2023
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Legislation and public opinion clash over student pronoun recognition.
Grabowski v. Arizona Board of Regents will have huge ramifications for gender-nonconforming student-athletes.
Officials at Lincoln Public Schools in Nebraska's capital are standing behind their recommended strategies for helping trans and gender-nonconforming students feel more comfortable, no matter the conservative outrage.
Another student shot at a Northern Illinois University lecture hall has died, raising the toll to seven, including the gunman, who had graduated from the school and had been considered a good student, officials said Friday. The shooting was the latest in a spate of attacks in U.S. schools and universities, including the shooting of a gender-nonconforming student at an Oxnard, Calif., junior high school who has since been declared brain-dead; a 17-year-old accused of shooting and critically wounding a fellow student Monday during a high school gym class in Memphis, Tenn.; and a woman who shot two fellow students to death before committing suicide at Louisiana Technical College in Baton Rouge late last week.
The Chino Valley district was the first in the state to adopt such a policy, for which it was sued by California's attorney general.
The Murrieta Valley Unified School District's board adopted the policy Thursday night.
The policy violates students' rights under the California constitution and state law, Attorney General Rob Bonta says.
It's one of several anti-LGBTQ bills pending in the state.
The Department of Education has intervened on behalf of a trans girl in Downey Unified School District after she allegedly suffered years of verbal harassment by peers and shaming by administrators.
In settling the mother's lawsuit, the Spreckels Union School District in California denied all the allegations.
Providing safe and supportive places of learning for transgender students from kindergarten through high school is the goal of this new teaching tool.Â
The Advocate goes inside one university's bold new trans-friendly gender-inclusive bathroom policy.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the first-in-the-nation legislation Monday.
If you're LGBT and pursuing higher education, you'll want to avoid the 102 unfriendly schools listed on Campus Pride's first Shame List.