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 LGBT Students & Discipline

School-to-prison pipeline issues impacting students who identify as LGBT

• Secretary DeVos is Failing to Protect the Civil Rights of LGBTQ Students Center for American Progress, August 2019

• ​How Incarceration Impacts LGBTQ Youth's Mental Health, TeenVogue, October 16, 2017​

• Five Myths About Transgender Students Educators Need to Unlearn, July 2017, Education Week ​

• Documenting Disparities for LGBT Students, The Equity Project at Indiana University, March 2016​

• Sexual Orientation-Based Disparities in School and Juvenile Justice Discipline, Journal of Educational Psychology, February 2016​

• LGBT Youth of Color​: Discipline Disparities, School Pushout, and School-to-Prison Pipeline, GSA Network and Crossroads Collaborative, 2014​

• Gender Nonconforming Youth: Discipline Disparities, School Pushout, and School-to-Prison Pipeline, GSA Network and Crossroads Collaborative, 2014​

• Criminal-Justice and School Sanctions Against Non-heterosexual Youth: A National Longitudinal Study, Pediatrics, December 6, 2010

Student Surveys

• DOJ and ED Release New LGBTQ-Inclusive Report on School Safety, May 2017, National LGBTQ Task Force​

• Protected and Served? School Security, Policing and Discipline of LGBTQIA+ ​Students Lambda Legal, June 2015