For decades, we have worked to reduce teen pregnancy. NEVER NEVER NEVER could we have imagined the federal government bemoaning a decline in teen pregnancy. What can you do?? Work on your State-level sex education policy!!
College students who participate in walkouts could be suspended or expelled under a new measure passed by the Tennessee General Assembly on Monday. "The Charlie Kirk Act, named for the late conservative activist, addresses free speech on college campuses." Speech doesn't seem exactly free...
Doe argues that in forcing him to remove the “Hate Has No Home Here” flag, the Little Miami School District violated his First Amendment right “to speak as a citizen addressing matters of public concern”
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She was responding to an antigay remark by the student, who didn’t think they knew any gay people.
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American far right reach is well beyond just U.S. classrooms.
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Hive Mind Books, the LGBTQ+ bookstore in Brooklyn, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $50,000 to acquire the Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, housed in the LGBTQ Community Center in Manhattan’s West Village.
NEWS: Trying to send LGBTQ+ young people in Iowa back into or deeper into the closet.
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Artemis II is making its moon flyby today—so I’m rounding up some LGBTQ-inclusive picture, chapter, & middle grade books involving astronomy and/or space. Share them with the young people in your life who dream of the stars! #BookSky Reviews: mombian.com/2026/04/06/2...
1. Yesterday, dozens of major political outlets reported that Trump is suing Minnesota to enact a trans sports ban.
What few of them reported was that Trump is also demanding bathroom bans in schools there as well.
Our latest reporting from S. Baum.
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By a vote of 8-1, the justices agreed with Kaley Chiles, the licensed counselor challenging the law, that the ban discriminates against her based on the views that she expresses in her talk therapy.
As we reflect on the numbers who protested yesterday, it’s important we ask not only are we against, but what are we for. And what piece of that will we each fight for. I, and @queeringedu.bsky.social, are fighting for queer kids. If you’d like suggestions on how you too can engage in that, ask us.
Standing up for Students!
For this year’s Trans Rights Readathon, here are 6 recent trans-inclusive chapter book & MG titles, incl the 2nd vol in a magic-school series starring a trans boy, & another about a trans girl witch—perfect as alternatives to She Who Must Not Be Named. #BookSky Reviews: mombian.com/2026/03/27/6...
The IOC has announced a trans and intersex athlete ban requiring an invasive SRY genetic test for female athletes.
In the 20+ years trans women were eligible, only one ever competed and none ever medaled. This is solving for a problem that doesn't exist.
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Barrie Thorne wrote a book about it in 1993. EJ Renold wrote a book about it in 2004. We have long had rich ethnographic studies that establish that gender pressure starts early.
💗💙 Gender pressure starts early.
Kids as young as 5 already feel the need to prove they’re “boy enough” or “girl enough.”
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Coordinators of U.S. political action against queer youth have created moral panic over a fabricated crisis to fuel legislative action against a marginalized student population, and all students will for years suffer for it. Research shows educators rarely teach anything at all about LGBTQ issues.
I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe.
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Audience means lots of things! We struggle to right up our research and policy recommendations in the current climate knowing positive movement is unlikely.
On our show today: @giuliaheyward.bsky.social talked about the tug of war between the state and the federal government over gender affirming care, and @turban.bsky.social discussed best practices in gender affirming care for those 19 and younger.
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“The House Education Committee’s decision to pass HR 7661 out of committee is an affront to local control of schools and another attempt to censor education by DC politicians,” said Ian Schwab, director, Government Affairs and Strategy at PEN America. pen.org/press-releas...
There is no longer separation of church and state in many areas of the country.
1. Despite elite institutions like Harvard, Brown, and Penn rolling over on trans people, and hospitals capitulating to Trump, one bastion of resistance has emerged: our public schools.
Now, Jeffco Public Schools in Colorado became the latest to reject Trump's anti-trans demands.
Our latest.
