Contents
Series Foreword?James A. Banks?ix
Acknowledgments?xv
Introduction?1
Necessary Tensions?5
Layers of Responsibility and Professional Resources for Nondiscrimination?9
Students? Rights to Expression, Privacy, and Association?13
Preparing Teachers and Leaders to Be Advocates?16
1.??Background to LGBTQ Movements for Equality With a Focus on K?12-Related Issues?19
Key Definitions, Often in Flux and Contested?22
Opening the Subject of Sexuality and Gender Through Theory, History, and Political Movements?24
Overlapping Histories of LGBTQ Movements?27
Schools and the Histories of Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation?34
2.??Thinking Through Biases and Assumptions About LGBTQ People?37
Gender as Process?37
Sexuality, Normalcy, and Intersecting Differences?41
Transphobia in Schools?46
Queer Relationalities?49
3.??Specific School-Related Challenges Facing LGBTQ Students?52
Intersecting Harassments and Biases?53
LGBTQ Youth and the Challenges of Accessing Education?56
Resituating ?Bullying? in Sexual Harassment?57
Another Form of ?Not? Education: ?You Can?t Say Gay? Policies?60
Recognizing Family Diversity: LGBTQ-Headed Households and School Exclusion?62
Living in Families Under Public Debate: Legal and Social Contexts?64
4.??Educatively Addressing LGBTQ Issues?66
Zero Tolerance and Exacerbating Distance?66
Sex and Non-Sex?71
Critical Queer Thinking and Queer Disciplines?73
Religious Tensions?77
Teaching and Learning for Ethical Relations?79
5.??Supporting Student Extracurricular and Creative Efforts to Educate Schools on LGBTQ Issues?83
Gay-Straight Alliances/Gender and Sexuality Alliances and Associations Across Difference?83
Gay-Straight Alliances and the Equal Access Act?86
Attempts to Restrict Gay-Straight Alliances?88
The Day of Silence: Resistance and Reconciliation (Hopefully)?90
LGBTQ Youth and Public Spaces?92
6.??Recognizing and Respecting Transgender Students?95
Learning About Gender?96
Anti-Transgender Rules From the School Board?100
Administrator Refusal of Family and Physician-Supported Affirmation?101
Watching Teachers Debate Transgender Issues?102
Transgender Students? Resistance and Resourcefulness?104
Intersections and Transgender Theory?107
Conclusion: Unsettled Progress?111
References?113
Index?127
About the Author?137
