On January 29th, 2018 GLSEN's Policy and Advocacy Manager Tea Sefer and Policy Fellow Sarah Everett presented the State of Our Union regarding current pending legislation affecting LGBTQ students. They answered questions during the Facebook live event about ways that students, educators, and community members could get involved in making schools LGBTQ-inclusive. If you want to take...
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What if Schools Taught About Non-binary Pronouns?
From a very young age, we are told to be ourselves and that it is okay to be “a little different.” Although we start out learning to be kind to everyone, the way we exclude groups from the conversation enforces the idea that we don’t need to continue that as...
LGBTQ Youth, Your Identity Should Not Be “Controversial”
Gay. Sapphic. Female. Queer. These are ways that I identify myself as a woman in high school. As an individual, you are the expert on how you identify. No one else can force you to identify as X or Y unless you say that you identify with identity X or...