During a school board meeting on June 11, parents voiced concerns over LGBTQ+ curriculum, including books with LGBTQ+ characters and themes, being taught in South Pasadena Elementary Schools. Over the past decade, California has passed laws in an attempt to prevent discrimination and create an inc...
about what their children were being taught. Galey said some public school systems and schools have policies to withhold information from parents about their child seeking to change pronouns or their name in the interest of protecting youth. That's wrongly encouraging perceptions of mi...
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Stories and histories about people like CJ -- a gay, 17-year-old boy -- would not be allowed to be taught in classrooms from kindergarten to third grade if the legislation, dubbed the"Don't Say Gay" bill, is implemented, limiting classroom curriculum on sexual orientation and gender ident...
If you had asked me twenty years ago about same sex marriage in church, I would have opposed it. The reason I would have given was that I thought it was against what the Bible taught. But twenty years ago I didn’t have a theology degree, I hadn’t seriously studied the Bible histor...
Since then, Manny lives by self-taught rules that keep him moving―and keep him alive. Now, he’s taking a chance on a traveling situation with the Varela family, whose attractive but surly son, Carlos, seems to promise a new future. Eli abides by the rules of his family, living in ...
Schools are often hostile places for trans students, but I explore teaching and learning in a classroom that foregrounds LGBTQ people and in a school that actively strives to minimise cisnormativity. In this ethnographic teacher research project, I, a cisgender queer white woman, taught and ...
Unless you are a novice educator, you have taught transgender students. You may not have realized it at the time, but I assure you that you have. Increasingly, educators are becoming aware that they have transgender kids in their classrooms, which can sometimes catch us off-guard. Most of ...
Pride Center Executive Director Brooke Malloy called this latest incident a manifestation of the swell of anti-LGBTQ legislation at the state and federal level, the uptick in book-banning requests and school board candidates pushing for limits on what is taught in schools. ...
While sponsors say the bill is needed to keep parents informed about what their children are being taught in public schools, critics say it would destroy the trust between teachers and their students and make schools unsafe spaces for LGBTQ and questioning children to explore their id...