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Masen Davis, executive director of the Transgender Law Center, told the New York Times that “more and more kids are coming out in junior high school and expressing gender different identities at younger ages.” He suggests that this trend indicates a greater degree maturity...
And yet I can’t say that I am elated by the silence that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues have received during this long and hard-fought race—a race so often touted for breaking glass ceilings. I can’t help but...
True, 66% of gay and transgender kids said they had heard homophobic remarks. But roughly the same proportion - 62% - had heard sexist remarks. Some 16% of gay and transgender kids said they had been harassed because of their sexual orientation, but 18% said they had been harassed because of "the...
Of course, King wasn't just teased - he was put to death. But GLSEN has found that the frequency of anti-gay harassment and assault at schools has dropped steady through this decade. Fully 57% of gay and transgender students now say they are comfortable raising gay and transgender issues...
The original version of this story has been amended. It now makes clear that the conclusions of the two cited GLSEN reports are at variance with the writer's own conclusions from studying the same statistics. Also, the story originally described the second GLSEN report as "released the same year...