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    Teachers' union poll: Dems have lost  education edge
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jul 15
    • 2 min

    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...
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    ‘Proud Boys’ interrupt Pride event
    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...
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    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”...
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    Born which way?
    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...
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    Gender lessons: Boy parts, girl parts
    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...
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    Feds: No free lunch without LGBTQI+ conformity
    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,...
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    66% of Gen Z are solely heterosexual
    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,...
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    How to teach empathy — by screaming insults?
    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...
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    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...
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    . . . and ‘theyby’ makes three
    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...
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    Swedish preschools teach boys to dance, girls to yell
    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...
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    Parents seek right to know about bullying
    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...
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    3% of teens are trans? Not really
    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...
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    27% of kids are . . . what?
    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...
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    Who’s gay? Textbooks must say
    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...
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    All under-18 sex is abuse in Oregon
    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”...
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    How campus rape policy went wrong
    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...
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    Let girls be (tomboy) girls
    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...
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    Trump drops transgender bathroom rule
    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...
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    Sex-change guide for kids riles Brits
    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,...
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