Joanne Jacobs
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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Joanne Jacobs
- Sep 14, 2018
- 1 min
Transgender suicide risk is high
Half of female-to-male transgender teens have attempted suicide, according to a study published in Pediatrics. Suicide attempts also are...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jul 21, 2018
- 1 min
Oh, theyby
There has to be a simpler way of avoiding gender stereotypes than refusing to admit that your twins are boys, girls or one of each....
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
- 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
- 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President Trump has rescinded a federal guideline requiring schools to let transgender students use bathrooms corresponding with their...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,...
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