In June, the Department of Education (ED) released an LGBTQ toolkit for creating an “inclusive” environment for schools and regional school districts, encouraging the creation of student clubs centered around the Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA). encouraged.
ED’s “A toolkit for building inclusive and non-discriminatory school environments for LGBTQI+ studentsis intended to provide school districts and wider communities with sample policies and practices that can be adopted to create a “safe and supportive” environment for LGBTQ students. The toolkit encourages schools to host student-led her GSA clubs to discuss “LGBTQI+ issues,” and encourages the use of “gender-neutral language.”
“The U.S. Department of Education supports student-led groups in creating safe, inclusive, and supportive educational environments for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) and LGBTQI+ students. We recognize that they can play an important role “parents, friends and family,” says the toolkit. “The Department is providing this resource to provide information about the rights of students to form and join Gender and Sexuality Alliances (GSAs) and other similar groups.”
The toolkit states that installing a GSA creates a “safer” environment and that school districts must allow clubs to operate under federal law. (Related: ‘Dirty Books’: Library Organization Celebrates Effort To Keep Porn Books In Schools)
The toolkit encourages schools and broader school districts to use “gender-neutral” terms such as “parents or guardians” rather than “mother and father.” School districts should also create “supportive spaces” such as her GSA club for LGBTQ students and protect them from “book bans” that create “hostile environments,” the toolkit says. It is listed.
“By updating school policies and forms to use gender-neutral terminology (e.g., referring to “parents or guardians” and “siblings” instead of “mother and father” and “siblings”) , can enable LGBTQI+ parents to participate fully in school education. It helps educate children and helps all types of families feel welcome,” says the toolkit.
Kimberly Brandon, Ross Evans, Jennifer Ehleman (left-R) with Florida Senator Ileana Garcia (F-R) after passing a parental rights-in-education bill called the “Don’t Call Me Gay” bill by LGBTQ protest in front of the office of Activists in Miami, Florida, March 9, 2022. Bills passed by the Florida Senate and House of Representatives limit what can be taught about sexual orientation and gender identity in the classroom. (Photo Credit: Joe Radle/Getty Images)
Across the country, legislators, school districts and parents are considering gender identity and sexual orientation curricula in schools. In California, the school board unanimously passed a resolution encouraging schools to adopt LGBTQ-focused classes, days after parents protested the proposal. Parents in Maryland lashed out at a school board that refused to opt their children out of classes on gender identity and sexual orientation.
This toolkit is based on the EDBuilding Inclusive and Non-Discriminatory School Environments for LGBTQI+ Students, held on June 21, featured several panels discussing ways to create a more “inclusive” environment within schools. picked up. One of the students on the panel, a transgender eighth grader, debated reporting a student who advocated for hormones and gave another person a “death name.”
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