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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️

Bridging the gaps between research, policy, and practice in support of LGBTQ students and families in K-12 schools. Sociology in action. Qualitative Research. Founded 2006. Directors: Elizabethe Payne, PhD & Melissa J. Smith, PhD.

@uminnpress.bsky.social is offering 30% their Pride Collection for Pride month. This includes our new book Queer Kids and Social Violence: The Limits of Bullying. www.upress.umn.edu/collection-p...

It's so heartbreaking to see a 14 year old child have to write a piece detailing how abusive adults have been to them over being themselves. They got horrifying threats. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Shepard Scalf said in an EEOC filing that a parent complained to the district that he was transgender.

Nonfiction and fiction, stories and histories so crucial to why we honor and celebrate Pride. Browse the Pride Month collection, now 30% off: www.upress.umn.edu/collection-p...

Reminder: Only one-twentieth of 1% of all US youth are accessing gender affirming care. Among youth with a trans-related diagnosis, only 5% are on puberty blockers, and 11% on hormone therapy. The money and energy spent on these attacks is about much more than 1/20th of 1% of youth.

A colorful bulletin board made by the student GSA is categorized as "grooming" by a parent in a Massachusetts school district. The hostilities are nation-wide, not only in the south and midwest.

Gender policing is on the rise. Bullying can be understood as gender policing.

NWLC: Ed Dept has “Absolutely No Basis” for Terminating Civil Agreements Protecting Trans Students

An intersex teacher has been fired in Florida, allegedly, after parents falsely believed he was transgender. Florida has some of the most oppressive laws targeting LGBTQ+ educators in the country. The ACLU has filed a complaint. The latest from our staff journalist, S. Baum.