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South Dakota House votes to void transgender students sports policy
The full state House has approved a proposal that would void a High School Activities Association policy on transgender student participation in sports.
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Bryn Mawr College to accept transgender, intersex students
Bryn Mawr College , a small women’s college near Philadelphia says it’ll start accepting transgender women and intersex applicants who don’t identify as male.
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South Dakota House panel votes to void transgender students sports policy
A measure that would reverse a state athletic association policy and require transgender students to play on the same sports team as the gender on their birth certificates easily passed its first legislative committee test on Monday.
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Gay teen leaves Christian school after being told to delete his YouTube videos
A 17-year-old openly gay teen says he was forced to change schools after being given an ultimatum by the his principal to delete his YouTube videos or find another school.
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University of Colorado to cover transition surgeries for transgender employees
The University of Colorado expects to soon begin covering the cost of transition surgery for transgender faculty and staff when new insurance plans take effect on July 1.
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San Francisco Archbishop details expectations for Catholic school teachers
The Catholic archbishop of San Francisco has unveiled a faculty handbook calling on teachers to lead their public and professional lives consistently with church teachings on homosexuality, same-sex marriage, and other behaviors he describes as evil.
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A gay dad’s letter to the school that is censoring a mural of a kiss
The kiss. For some reason, it, and the experience of giving and getting one, is a completely integrated aspect of the high school experience. While puckers may have been planted in earlier years, it is the high school ones that create the milestones to adulthood … the magic of our adolescence. One depiction of such a kiss is not folding harmoniously into the tapestry of its school’s life however. It is causing controversy.
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Student’s art of two young men kissing stirs controversy at Canadian high school
A high school student’s mural of two young men kissing is causing some controversy at the small school north of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada.
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Tennessee school turns away prospective students because parents are gay
A private, non-denominational Christian-based school in Nashville has turned away prospective students because their parents, one of whom is a local pastor, are gay.
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Ky. bill targets transgender students by restricting facilities to biological sex
The “Kentucky Student Privacy Act,” proposed by State Sen. C.B. Embry Jr., would allow parents to sue the school for $2,500 if their child encountered a transgender student in a school restroom.