LibGuides: LGBTQ+: School

RESOURCES

Delaware School's GSAs
List of Gender-Sexuality Alliances (formerly Gay-Straight Alliance) in Delaware schools.
GSA Network
GSA Network is a next-generation LGBTQ racial and gender justice organization that empowers and trains queer, trans and allied youth leaders to advocate, organize, and mobilize an intersectional movement for safer schools and healthier communities.
GLSEN
Championing LGBTQ issues in K-12 education since 1990.
Campus Pride Index
National Listing of LGBTQ-Friendly
Colleges & Universities
U.S. Dept. of Education - Office for Civil Rights
Resources for LGBTQ students including policy guidance, OCR case resolutions, court filings, and federal government resources.
American Civil Liberties Union - LGBT Youth
Information for students on rights related to GSAs, proms/dances, outing, harassment/bullying, free expression/censorship and more.
Trans Student Educational Resources
Trans Student Educational Resources is your organization for contacting schools, getting information, and taking action! We supply trans resources and provide support for creating change in your school and beyond.
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We speak at conferences, train teachers, collaborate with other advocacy organizations, host the only national trans youth activist summit, support trans-related events, provide leadership training for trans youth, host scholarships for trans students, publish materials about trans education, help create transgender policies, and promote trans representation in media.

What Can We Do? Bias, Bullying and Bystanders, Human Rights Campaign

Why Silence? GLSEN Day of Silence Organizing Tips, GLSEN

ACLU Rights Watch: Transgender Students, ACLU

NEWS & UPDATES

GSA Advisor Handbook

Beyond Bullying Human Rights Campaign Foundation

GLSEN Day of Silence The GLSEN Day of Silence is a national student-led demonstration where LGBTQ students and allies all around the country—and the world—take a vow of silence to protest the harmful effects of harassment and discrimination of LGBTQ people in schools.

The Empathy Alliance Creating Safer Schools & Communities For LGBTQ+ Youth

How to Make your GSA Intersex Friendly

A Thank-You Note to a Revolutionary Student Advocate, by Asaf Orr, May 23, 2016

He Continues to Make a Difference: Commemorating the Life of Matthew Shepard Supporting LGBT Students: A Resource for Educators Created by Lesléa Newman, GLSEN, the Matthew Shepard Foundation & Candlewick Press

Appeals Court Upholds Pennsylvania School District's Trans-Inclusive Policy Advocate, by Trudy Ring, May 24, 2018

Understanding School Safety and the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Sexual Orientation Safe Schools Research Brief 10

Gender Non-Conformity and School Safety: Documenting the Problem and Steps Schools Can Take Safe Schools Research Brief 12

5 LGBTQ Latinx Heroes for Every Classroom GLSEN

Hatred in the Hallways: Violence and Discrimination Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students in U.S. Schools Human Rights Watch

EDUCATOR RESOURCES

Welcoming Schools
Creating Safe and Welcoming Schools For All Children & Families. (en espanol)
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HRC Foundation's Welcoming Schools is the nation's premier professional development program providing training and resources to elementary school educators to welcome diverse families, create LGBTQ and gender inclusive schools, prevent bias-based bullying, and support transgender and non-binary students.
Principles of Gender-Inclusive Puberty and Health Education
Created to address the vast gender diversity of young people attending our nation’s schools, this document is designed to provide educators with perspectives and language to account for every student’s unique journey through puberty into adulthood.
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This document incorporates five guiding principles that frame the basic, medically accurate information all students must understand to have agency over their own health and wellness. The result gives educators tools to create a universal experience of inclusion and learning for a process that is decidedly individual in nature.
GLSEN Educator Resources
Educator guides, LGBT-inclusive curriculum, lesson plans on bullying, bias, and diversity, and more.
Gender Inclusive Schools Toolkit
Creating a school that acknowledges and affirms the gender diversity of every student does not happen by accident. Through thoughtful and intentional practices, any institution can create gender inclusive conditions for all of its students.
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/1wpo37oz3wv3nan/Gender%20Inclusive%20Schools%20Toolkit.pdf?dl=0
It's OK to be neither: Teaching that supports gender-variant children
Rethinking Schools, by Melissa Bollow Tempel
Schools In Transition: A Guide for Supporting Transgender Students in K-12 Schools
Human Rights Campaign Foundation
Model Policies
Model policies for schools and school districts regarding bias and discrimination.

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