A Special Kind of Brave: LGBTQIA+ People in Schools Facing Hostility to Create Safer Spaces and Futures

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Author(s): Matthew D. Rice (Baylor University, USA)
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 26
Source title: PK-12 Professionals’ Narratives of Working as Advocates Impacting Today’s Schools
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Patrick S. De Walt (California State University, Fresno, USA)and Dara N. Nix-Stevenson (Sincecombahee Educational Consulting, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-9236-9.ch005

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Education / Educational Administration and Leadership / K-12 Education

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Abstract

Schools in the United States have long supported cisgender heterosexuality as the only healthy moral option for adult life. LGBTQIA+ adults, even some cis-het allies, are weathering the terrifying hostility and increasingly facing the experience of being doxxed for supporting LGBTQIA+ youth. Some are even losing their jobs. LGBTQIA+ professional educators face discrimination, marginalization, and silencing, especially for supporting gender-diverse youth. Students need models of healthy LGBTQIA+ adult life and healthy gender-diverse adults. They need to see cisgender heterosexual adults warmly including their gender-diverse colleagues, to model the expectations of modern healthy workplace relationships. Happy, healthy LGBTQIA+ adults are an antidote to LGBTQIA+ young people's despair. By seeing people like themselves living happy, well-integrated adult lives in their communities, LGBTQIA+ youth clearly understand that adulthood is possible.

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