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We found an over reliance on “micro” level activities and limited efforts to address “macro” level issues. We also noted a strong trend relying on “education about the Other” rather than more critical & liberatory approaches.

Excited to share the online publication of our new article in Review of Educational Research. We analyzed 100 articles published since 1993 discussing advocacy & activism for #lgbtq equity in k-12 schools.

Excited to present about my book “queer justice at school” at this great online event today. Not too late to register! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️📚

Change is needed to make schools affirming & inclusive of gender & sexual diversity. This is for students & allies who are working to make schools supportive of LGBTQIA+ people. Join us next week when @lizjmeyer.bsky.social will be here to celebrate this important book! Tix: MeyerBBS.eventbrite.com

@teachingwhilequeer.org is hosting an amazing online event for educators on Oct 11. My session is sharing resources from my @tcpress.bsky.social book “queer justice at school” hope you can join us!

Colorado joins lawsuit to stop cuts to federal funds that support sex ed curriculum The Trump administration has threatened to withhold $1 million over references to gender identity.

CO joins lawsuit re: sex ed curriculum: “Forcing states to use medically unsupported, incomplete PREP program content violates laws adopted by Congress,” a statement from the AG’s office reads.
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NYCDOE “asked the federal Education Department to “please explain the nexus between your interpretation of Title IX & the [magnet school] grant funding that is being discontinued.” The letter asserts that the move “deprived the NYCDOE of the procedures & due process required by federal regulations.”

Trump administration to cancel funding if NYC does not alter guidelines for trans students The Trump administration is now demanding that NYC change its policies by Tuesday night or else risk losing millions in grant funding for a handful of public schools.

www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

Here’s how CPS responded to the Trump administration withholding magnet school money In a letter sent to the U.S. Department of Education Friday, Chicago Public Schools’ acting general counsel said the district is in compliance with federal, state, and local laws as it relates to effo...

www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025... | strong response by Chicago Public Schools!

Denver Public Schools responds to finding that all-gender restroom violates Title IX Rather than agree to get rid of its all-gender restrooms, DPS has asked the Trump administration for 90 days to negotiate a resolution.

www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202... | A thoughtful & rational response from DPS in the face of unjust and illegal attacks by Trump's OCR #titleix

Marrero: Trump administration weaponizing Title IX, pushing ‘anti-trans agenda’ The Denver superintendent’s comments come a day after the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights found that the conversion of a girls’ restroom to an all-gender restroom at East High Sch...

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““While they label this a ‘directed investigation,’ make no mistake: there was no on-site review, not a single witness interview was ever conducted, and not one substantive conversation with any OCR attorney ever occurred,”

this is a horrifying twist of the use of Title IX which has 20 years of case law precedent that protects trans & gender nonconforming students as well as girls from discrimination "on the basis of sex"

All-gender restroom at Denver’s East High violates Title IX, Trump administration finds President Trump has made targeting protections for LGBTQ students a key part of his second term. Denver Public Schools says it is determining its next steps.

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40 states could lose federal funds for sex ed if they keep gender identity in curriculum The Health and Human Services Department told 40 states to remove references to gender identity from their federally funded sex education programs. When California refused to comply, the agency termin...

www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/26/t...

Some State Leaders Cheer as Trump's Ed. Dept. Investigates Their Schools The use of the office for civil rights for political purposes has been dialed up in the second Trump administration, experts say.

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“The administration is entitled to its own views…,” Gallagher wrote. “But it is not entitled to misrepresent the law’s boundaries, and must at a minimum acknowledge and consider the relevant legal framework as it is. It cannot blur the lines between its viewpoint and existing law.”

Trump’s war on DEI in schools dealt a setback by a federal judge he nominated A federal judge struck down a policy that left many schools worried they would lose federal funding if they did not comply with the Trump administration’s contested interpretation of federal civil rig...

www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/15/s...

Federal judge dismisses lawsuit on JeffCo policy on overnight rooming policy for transgender students The judge ruled that the policy did not violate students’ constitutional rights.

Win for CO school district sured by anti-trans parents & limits on parents’ rights to influence public school policy & curriculum. www.cpr.org/2025/08/08/j...

Resolving 4 incomplete grades, giving 5 workshops & webinars on my research, reading new research in my field…

My summer “off” as a professor included: revising & resubmitting 2 articles, advising meetings w/4 phd students, serving on an international awards jury, providing 2 external review letters for promotion cases, peer-reviewing 4 articles for journals, prepping 2 classes for fall …

Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders

Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders | “trust but verify is in” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

US Supreme Court to decide legality of transgender school sports bans The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to hear a bid by West Virginia and Idaho to enforce their state laws banning transgender athletes from female sports teams at public schools, taking up another civil rights challenge to Republican-backed restrictions on transgender people.

US Supreme Court to decide legality of transgender school sports bans reut.rs/4kp63ua

Teachers recommended a social studies textbook. This Colorado school board said no. A divided school board in western Colorado debated Columbus and Black Lives Matter as they considered a new fourth grade social studies curriculum.

www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202... more watered-down, "2nd choice" social studies curriculum for 4th graders in Colorado

Three winners of the July drawing for a free copy of “Queer Justice at School” have just been notified! Register now for the August drawing: www.elizabethjmeyer.com/queer-justice

The U.S. Department of Energy Is Trying to Change a Title IX Rule. Why? Proposals from the U.S. Department of Energy show buy-in from across the administration for the president's view of gender identity.

Important article about bonkers-town #TitleIX moves coming from the Department of ENERGY !?! @edweek.org www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

How can schools be more supportive of LGBTQIA+ students and their families?

There's still time to register for our free #Pride webinar on Queer Justice in School, with author @lizjmeyer.bsky.social—join us today at 3:00pm ET!

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The Archaic Sex-Discrimination Case the Supreme Court Is Reviving In Skrmetti, the Court turned to a decades-old decision once thought to be consigned to history.

New from me in The Atlantic - how SCOTUS's decision in Skrmetti is reviving an archaic line of reasoning on sex discrimination, which was used to justify & legitimize sex discrimination: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Fed gov’t tells CA about what they can’t teach in #sexed - what about education & state’s rights? thehill.com/homenews/sta...

This week! join us for this FREE webinar on Wednesday for educators, youth workers, family members and young people interested in improving #lgbtq equity at your #school! @tcpress.bsky.social