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Bye-bye bisexual women: Young adults move away from LGBT identities
Bisexual identities soared for young women, and now have fallen, leading the decline in young people saying they're LGBT.

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 81 min read


4th-grade homework gone wrong: AI created sexy Pippi for book report
When fourth-graders used AI to generate Pippi Longstocking for book report covers, the adventurous girl appeared as a sexpot.

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 41 min read


Xyr be crazy: Teaching neopronouns in 'what we now call' the USA
If students can't tell nouns from verbs, should teachers spend time on "neopronouns" (xe/xem/xyr) and "xeopronouns" (cat/cats/catself)?

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 19, 20252 min read


Chatbots can get 'romantic and sensual' with kids, say Meta guidelines
Meta AI has been designed to flirt with children, as long as it doesn't suggest sexual intercourse.

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 17, 20252 min read


Parents have a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ lessons, SCOTUS rules
Parents' rights won a 6-3 victory in the U.S. Supreme Court: Parents can opt out of gay and transgender lessons that contradict their religious beliefs.

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 27, 20252 min read


Troubled 12-year-old was 'fast-tracked' for hormones, mastectomy, charges lawsuit
A young woman is suing "gender affirming care" providers for starting her on drugs and surgery at age 12.

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 15, 20242 min read


How to lose: Parents don't want kids to see blowjobs in library books
"A lot of Americans have kids in public schools," writes Eduwonk Andrew Rotherham. " They want normal ." They don't want sexualized...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 8, 20242 min read


What parents want: Teach reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic, civics and ...
Parents on the left, right and center agree that schools should teach reading, writing, math and civics, writes David M. Houston, a...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 2, 20242 min read


Democrats take over school board, but books stay 'banned'
When a Pennsylvania school board flipped from Republican to Democratic control, some policies changed -- but many did not.

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 1, 20242 min read


Once, girls were excited to grow up
Once upon a time, the teenage girls in Judy Blume's stories were "excited to grow up," writes Kat Rosenfield on The Free Press. Starting...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 4, 20243 min read


New Title IX LGBTQ+ rules set off 'race to the Supreme Court'
Schools are supposed to start implementing new federal rules on sex and gender discrimination, starting on Aug. 1, but red-state lawsuits...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 29, 20242 min read


Young and gay
The Ivy League is not very heterosexual, notes Rod Dreher. You'll see that the percentages of LGBTQ+ students nearly tripled at Brown...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 8, 20241 min read


Teachers should keep their politics to themselves, say parents
Parents overwhelmingly say teachers should keep their politics out of the classroom.

Joanne Jacobs
May 31, 20241 min read


'Don't say gay' when you're supposed to be teaching fractions
One out of three classroom teachers are working under "gag orders" that limit their speech on gender, sexuality and critical race theory,...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 26, 20242 min read


Muslim parents win right to reject LGBT books for their children
Muslim children won't be required to read LGBT books in elementary schools in St. Louis Park, a suburb of Minneapolis, reports Mairead...

Joanne Jacobs
Feb 18, 20242 min read


Portland will consider race, gender to 'support' disruptive students
Portland (OR) schools will design "support plans" for disruptive students that consider trauma, race, gender identity/presentation and...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 7, 20232 min read


I am a rockgender, I am an autismgender
When Simon and Garfunkel sang "I am a rock, I am an island," they weren't thinking about gender or sexuality. But, nowadays, rock can be...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 21, 20232 min read


It's normal for parents to object to graphic sex in kids' books
Aymann Ismail thought book-banners were prudish hysterics, he writes on Slate. Then a librarian gave him a copy of one of the...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 18, 20232 min read


Fourth-graders are finding PornHub
Online porn is easily available to kids, addictive and destructive, writes Isabel Hogben, a runner-up in The Free Press's high school...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 3, 20231 min read


Death wish: Contempt for parents will destroy public ed
Public schools are trouble. Trust is low. Enrollment is falling. Parents are embracing new alternatives. Is transgender policy the hill...

Joanne Jacobs
Aug 25, 20232 min read
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