Joanne Jacobs
Teachers' union poll: Dems have lost education edge
Voters in battleground states trust Republicans slightly more than Democrats on education issues, according to a new Hart poll...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 14
- 1 min
‘Proud Boys’ interrupt Pride event
Drag Queen Story Hour was starting at a Bay Area library when a group of men entered shouting homophobic and transphobic slurs, reports...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 14
- 1 min
If parents take kids to drag shows, it’s not ‘abuse’
A Texas legislator wants to ban children from seeing drag queens in response to a Dallas bar’s ““family-friendly” Drag the Kids to Pride”...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 5
- 1 min
Born which way?
LGBT is becoming a social and political identity rather than a sexual identity for many young people, writes Eric Kaufmann in a Center...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 4
- 3 min
Gender lessons: Boy parts, girl parts
gender identity, reports Laura Meckler in the Washington Post. “Seven states now require that curriculums include LGBTQ topics,” she...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 2
- 2 min
Feds: No free lunch without LGBTQI+ conformity
School cafeterias are not segregated by gender or sexuality in any state in the union. School sports teams, restrooms and locker rooms,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 6, 2018
- 1 min
66% of Gen Z are solely heterosexual
Two-thirds of 16- to 22-year-olds in “Generation Z” say they’re solely heterosexual, according to a recent survey conducted in Britain,...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 23, 2018
- 2 min
How to teach empathy — by screaming insults?
Thousands of Bay Area teenagers have attended four-day camps that claim to teach empathy and leadership by screaming insults and enacting...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 12, 2018
- 1 min
Teaching that it’s OK to be gay
NBC News reports on integrating gay, lesbian and transgender issues into classrooms in Colorado. Seven states have “no promo homo” laws...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 7, 2018
- 2 min
. . . and ‘theyby’ makes three
New York magazine features parents who are raising “theybys” — children whose biological sex is kept a mystery, so they can avoid...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 31, 2018
- 2 min
Swedish preschools teach boys to dance, girls to yell
Swedish preschools encourage boys to draw, dance and play in toy kitchens, while girls are taught to shout “No!,” reports Ellen Barry in...
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 8, 2018
- 1 min
Parents seek right to know about bullying
Jacobe Taras went on a family vacation shortly before he killed himself. Photo: Richard Taras Schools should be required to tell parents...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 9, 2018
- 2 min
3% of teens are trans? Not really
Some 2.7 percent of teens identified themselves as transgender or “gender non-conforming” (TGNC) in a study of Minnesota teenagers in...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 4, 2018
- 2 min
27% of kids are . . . what?
Twenty-seven percent of 12- to 17-year-olds in California identify as “nongender conforming,” according to a new UCLA survey. Take a...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 3, 2017
- 2 min
Who’s gay? Textbooks must say
Was Emily Dickinson gay? How about Ralph Waldo Emerson? The California Board of Education has rejected two proposed middle-school...
Joanne Jacobs
- Nov 21, 2017
- 1 min
All under-18 sex is abuse in Oregon
If an Oregon teacher believes that two 17-year-old students are having consensual sex with each other, she must report the “child abuse”...
Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 13, 2017
- 3 min
How campus rape policy went wrong
Pressured by the federal government and beliefs about “rape culture,” colleges have tried to police their students’ sex lives. Emily...
Joanne Jacobs
- Apr 20, 2017
- 2 min
Let girls be (tomboy) girls
My Daughter Is Not Transgender. She’s a Tomboy, writes Lisa Selin Davis in a New York Times commentary. Her seven-year-old daughter, who...
Joanne Jacobs
- Feb 23, 2017
- 1 min
Trump drops transgender bathroom rule
President Trump has rescinded a federal guideline requiring schools to let transgender students use bathrooms corresponding with their...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 9, 2017
- 1 min
Sex-change guide for kids riles Brits
Can I Tell You About Gender Diversity?, which will be introduced at some British primary schools, is — surprise! — causing controversy,...