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

LGBTQ Youth and the School-to-Prison Pipeline

• 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

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

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

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Educators and Transgender Youth

• Examples of Policies and Emerging Practices for Supporting Transgender Students, US Department of Education, May 2016

• Four Myths About Trans Athletes, Debunked, ACLU, April 30, 2020

• Pronoun Guide, GLSEN, 2020

• Research Shows the Risk of Misgendering Transgender Youth, Child Trends, October 23, 2018

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

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Federal Policy

• President's Executive Order on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation, January 20, 2021

• Letter to Students, Educators, and other Stakeholders re Executive Order 14021, US Department of Education, April 6, 2021

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