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California

How Schools Can Implement These Simple Steps to Protect Transgender Students

For most children, most of the time, their hours in school are the safest part of their day. But if a child is being called by the wrong name or pronouns, is unable to use the bathroom they feel...

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Poverty

This Holiday Season You Should Be Thinking About Homeless LGBTQ+ Students and Here's Why

The holiday season is a time of year that many spend with family and friends to share in each other's joys and success and reflect on aspirations for the coming year. However, there will be people...

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Poverty

After One Night on the Street, I'm Thinking About All the Young People Who Are Homeless Every Night

Two weeks before Thanksgiving, I watched a segment on Chicago’s WGN Morning News where two youth told their stories about homelessness. Something changed inside me, and within a week I found myself...

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Student Voice

Every Time You Misgender a Trans Person and We Say 'It's Alright,' It's Not

Being misgendered feels like getting stabbed in the back, even when people don’t do it on purpose. I’ve learned to live with that pain, it’s something I experience every day, and I will face it for...

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LGBTQ

Kids Need to Learn About LGBT Heroes Like Edith Windsor

Look at this photo of Edie Windsor. When was she ever photographed looking anything other than confident and jubilant, arms extended and something bright, some swath of super-saturated color breaking...

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student achievement

I Almost Quit Teaching on My Third Day. Here’s 10 Things I Wish I'd Known.

Dear Mark, You called out sick today (Thursday, September 6, 2007). Only your third day of school—ever!—and you lied about having a family emergency in Rhode Island. I know, you’re scared—not of the...

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