Lgbtq curriculum in vurginia schools
Six Ways to Support LGBTQ+ Youth in Virginia
Every student should touch safe and free to be their authentic selves. This founding principle has guided TSS since our inception. Recent legislation has questioned this basic human right for Queer youth in Virginia. But there are many ways a university can support Homosexual students in the face of these changes.
I first yearn to assure all the members of our TSS people that we will not comply with Governor Youngkin’s updated guidelines for trans and nonbinary students. These restrictions compromise the safety and integrity of our school community.
I’d also like to illustrate the ways TSS strives to be inclusive and support all our students feel safe, seen, and heard by creating a meaning of belonging, connectedness, support, and empowerment for each and every one of our students.
Here are six actions schools can take to support LGBTQ+ youth in Virginia. Below each suggestion, we describe how TSS implements these behavior. At TSS, we embrace these strategies which help maintain our inclusive university environment and make certain that all our students feel secure.
1. Affinity Groups
Over the years, TSS has offered
LGBTQ Curricular Laws
LGBTQ-related curricular laws are important for LGBTQ students’ health, well-being, and academic success. This put of maps covers multiple distinct policies related to LGBTQ inclusion in—or exclusion from—school curricula or standards. The chart below summarizes whether states have an LGBTQ-inclusive curricular standards law or any of the obeying LGBTQ-specific school censorship laws: "Don't Declare LGBTQ" laws, older laws censoring discussions of homosexuality, and parental opt-out/opt-in laws. The tabs above link to specific maps with more information about each type of curricular policy. Click "Citations & More Information" beneath the map legend for more communication about each type of laws, and learn more aboutthe importance of inclusive curricular standards from GLSEN.
State has an LGBTQ-inclusive curricular standards law (8 states)
State has none of these LGBTQ-specific curricular laws (23 states , 5 territories + D.C.)
State has at least one LGBTQ-specific school censorship
Of Rules & Law: Virginia’s Largest School Districts Won’t Adopt Gov. Youngkin’s Modern LGBTQ Edict
The courts may end up deciding whether the governor's guidelines are legal — but they could well be a wedge issue in the upcoming elections.
By Beth Hawkins
This story first appeared at The 74, a charity news site covering learning. Sign up for free newsletters from The 74 to get more fond this in your inbox.
UpdatedSept. 1
As LGBTQ students brain back to school throughout Virginia, they return to a patchwork of opposite rules dictating who may use what bathroom, act on which sports team and ask their teachers to address them by new pronouns. At issue is whether new declare policies outlining the treatment of transgender students deny state and federal commandment — and whether the commonwealth has the ability to enforce them.
In recent weeks, several of Virginia’s largest school systems include said they will not adopt the state’s unused model policies, finalized in July. These require districts to use the pronouns and name a infant was assigned at birth, exclude gender-nonconforming children from locker rooms and other facilities that match their identities and, cr
LGBTQ+ Youth and Policy Change: Celebrating Progress and More Work to Do
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By Kaytee Wisley
As Identity Month is ending soon, we want to carry attention to policies that promote equality for Queer youth. According tothe Human Rights Campaign’s State Equity Index, a scorecard ranking states on different aspects of LGBTQ+ policy, Virginia scored in the second highest category “Solidifying Equity.” This is a bounce from the lowest category of “High Priority to Achieve Basic Equity,” interpretation that the state has done substantial work to prioritize equality in the most recent legislative sessions. Virginia is the first state to ever hop two categories in one year. We want to acknowledge the hard labor of advocates and lawmakers that have pushed Virginia to make so much progress towards equality over the last few years particularly Equality Virginia and the ACLU-VA.
The Human Rights Campaign state scorecard divides the policies into six categories, including youth policies. Virginia has done a significant amount of operate in ensuring that there are comprehensive anti-bullying
District Can Deny Opt-Outs on LGBTQ+ Books, Court Rules
A federal appeals court on May 15 refused to block a Maryland educational facility district’s policy preventing parents from opting their children out of LGBTQ+ inclusive “storybooks” used in the English language arts curriculum in its elementary schools.
A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, in Richmond, Va., voted 2-1 to deny a preliminary injunction to block the policy of the 160,000-student Montgomery County school district outside the nation’s capital.
The school system in 2022 approved books such as Pride Puppy!, which encourages readers to look for terms such as kingly queen and king, lip ring, and leather, My Rainbow, and Uncle Bobby’s Wedding to help educate reading to students as young as pre-kindergarten. An associate superintendent said in court papers that the books were not meant to explicitly teach about gender identity and sexual orientation in elementary educational facility, but to be a classroom option for students to discover and for teachers to recommend to some students.
Some Christian and Muslim parents, among others, objected to the books as age-inappropriate and infringing on their rights to raise the