YEAR 16, NUMBER 3, 4 SEPTEMBER 2023

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>> 24 August 2023 - The My-ID project has published a new open-source user manual on how to develop an optimal teacher training on LGBTIQ+ issues. The manual gives a new take on LGBTIQ+ training. Rather than focusing on LGBTIQ+ “visibility” and giving teachers information on how to “correctly” approach LGBTIQ+ students, the manual and the accompanying background reader offer a view on how teacher can be approached on the emotional and attitudinal level.

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>> 7 August 2023 - Poland’s ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party has proposed legislation that will undermine children’s rights to education. The draft amendment to the Education Law Act called “Protect Children, Support Parents” would forbid access to schools for sex education NGOs. Such groups are often the only reliable source sex education in the face of the already extremely discriminatory national curriculum.

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>> 17 August 2023 - A Spanish study explored what impact stories of LGBT teachers can have on students in initial teacher training. The results show how life stories are a good method of raising awareness among trainee teachers by showing the reality of LGBT, including the barriers they may face in schools. In this article the study is summarized and some criticisms on the study are highlighted.

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>> 14 August 2023 - The Trevor Project released it’s 2023 survey report on suicide among LGBTQ youth in the USA and the findings are horrible. 41% of LGBTQ young people seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year. These rates were much higher among transgender, nonbinary, and among people of color. 56% who wanted mental health care in the past year were not able to get it. Almost 2 in 3 LGBTQ young people said that hearing about new laws banning people from discussing sexual and gender diversity at school made their mental health a lot worse.

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>> 9 August 2023 - A USA federal judge refused extremist parents to sue a school in Ohio. They wanted to force the school to evict a trans student from public school toilets. He said it is clear that a parent has the right to control where their child goes to school, but that is where their control ends. Public school policies like the use of student bathrooms are for the school to decide. His judgement is a breath of fresh air in an increasingly foul-smelling extremist right-wing campaign.

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OTHER NEWS

• 31 August 2023 – A majority of US voters don’t support extremist anti-LGBTQ+ school policies
• 28 August 2023 – Conservative extremists in a rural USA county want to dissolve their local libraries if they cannot ban LGBTIQ+ books
• 25 August 2023 – LGBT allies outvote conservative LGBT-censoring groups in two USA local library meetings
• 25 August 2023 – The ridiculousness of banning trans people from global chess tournaments
• 25 August 2023 – Hate preachers shout at high school students in Austun, Texas
• 25 August 2023 – A USA federal judge rules parents can’t take out students out of classes when reading books with LGBT content
• 24 August 2023 – Some USA Virginia schools are refusing to implement discriminatory State policies
• 24 August 2023 – Chinese censors shut down key LGBTQ+ social media accounts
• 24 August 2023 – USA State Florida will now fire trans teachers if they use the correct bathroom
• 17 August 2023 – The town of Gillette (USA Wyoming) fires competent librarian because she refused to remove LGBTQ+ books
• 16 August 2023 – US school districts use ChatGPT to determine which “sexual” books to ban because they can’t read all their books, but the chatbot doesn’t work well for this
• 16 August 2023 – US Virginia school board orders librarians to use extremist book censorship list to evaluate books
• 16 August 2023 – USA It Gets Better Project leaves Twitter/X because it is too unsafe for LGBTQ+ youth
• 11 August 2023 – Nearly 40% of parents surveyed want to leave Florida (USA) because of the Don’t Say Gay law
• 8 August 2023 – Iraq bans media from using term 'homosexuality', says they must use 'sexual deviance'
• 8 August 2023 – US State Virgina takes out homosexuality from definition “sexual conduct” in book ban law
• 8 August 2023 – US federal judge rules that parents can choose a school for their child, but not evict children from school bathrooms
• 7 August 2023 – Radical conservatives in US Virginia want to force students to take their parents to the public library so their can censor them
• 7 August 2023 – Florida Education Commission opposes governor DeSantis and tells schools to not censor psychology courses
• 4 August 2023 – The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has forcefully reaffirmed its support for gender-affirming care for minors
• 4 August 2023 – US Florida Department of Education censors advanced psychology courses because they teach about gender identity and sexual orientation
• 2 August 2023 – US Ohio judge rules in favor of trans students after parents’ right to misgender
• 24 July 2023 – International extremist lobby against democracy funds millions to fuel anti-LGBTQ agenda

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