The Supreme Court has declined to hear a case brought by two Massachusetts parents against their child’s school district. The parents accused the district of unconstitutionally disregarding the parents’ right to raise...
Category: LGBTQ+ Student Issues
We had previously posted about a recent Supreme Court ruling that re-imposed a permanent injunction against the State of California’s SAFETY Act. The California law prohibited school districts from requiring teachers to...
Ohio’s Bathroom Battleground: New Law Limits Student Restroom Access on Basis of Biological Sex
January 1, 2025
School restrooms are centers of controversy these days. Transgender and LGBTQ+ individuals may seek to use a bathroom labeled for the gender with which they identify, while other students may want to keep restrooms segregated by...
Recent changes to Title IX now offer protections for LGBTQ+ students, but these changes are facing opposition from some state leaders. Governor Ron DeSantis announced Florida’s intention not to follow the rules, arguing that...
In February, 16-year-old Nex Benedict, a student at Owasso High School in Oklahoma, was beaten by three older female students in the bathroom and then died the following day. Despite local authorities listing the manner of death...
In February, the news of the tragic death of Nex Benedict, a gender non-conforming teen, shocked the nation. The day after three female students attacked Nex in an Owasso, Oklahoma, school bathroom, Benedict’s mother found...
Florida Bathroom Ban Challenges Trans Rights
October 19, 2023
In what is yet another attempt by the state of Florida to stigmatize a segment of its citizens based on gender, Florida’s State Board of Education recently passed a set of rules requiring state colleges to comply with the...
In mid-March, the Governor of Arkansas signed into law a measure that has the effect of preventing transgender students from using a school restroom that matches their gender identity. The law requires that multi-occupancy...
Pennsylvania Policy 321 and LGBTQ+ Support
March 29, 2023
Educational issues have become a flashpoint for local and national elections in the last few years. From parents clamoring for more control over curriculum to exhausted teachers fighting for more resources, school boards...
The Trump Administration’s Department of Education, headed by secretary Betsy DeVos, has made some major decisions in a very short amount of time. Much of them have been influenced by the rather conspicuous agenda to undo...