YEAR 16, NUMBER 2, 4 AUGUST 2023

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>> 24 July 2023 - The European UNIQUE-project partnership launched its elaborate e-course on how to give attention to sexual and gender diversity for vocational teachers. The free online resource is the main tool in a transnational strategy to recruit and train teacher-ambassadors, who should undertake initiatives to make their vocational course more LGBTIQ+ inclusive.

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>>> 27 July, 2023 - The European “My-ID” project has published its English version of their compendium with classroom activities. The compendium contains 36 activities on LGBTIQ+ topics that teacher can implement in their classrooms. The activities cover social studies and biology/health, but also subjects like history, physical education, languages and mathematics.

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>> 31 July 2013 - The European UNIQUE-project attempted to introduce inclusion of LGBTIQ+ students in vocational education. At the end of the project, political recommendations were developed. Because there was little time left to consult experts face-to-face, it was decided to check the draft recommendations through a survey. To the surprise of the project partners, key recommendations were rejected by a substantial number of stakeholders. This raised the question whether policy recommendations on sexual and gender diversity in schools should be based on idealistic points on the horizon, or on more realistic short-term or mid-term objectives. The implications of this choice may be helpful or blocking future successful implementation of LGBTIQ+ interventions and policies.

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>>1 April, 2023 - On Thursday 30 March, the chairman of the Dutch Psychiatry Association (NVvP) Niels Mulder make a public statement in which he expressed regret for the suffering people with an LGBTIQ+ identity were inflicted in the past. This was done out of the belief at the time that being a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex or queer was a disease that needed to be treated.

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>> 23 June 2023 - In a policy brief, the US Williams Institute reports that twenty percent of high school students in three USA States was hungry last month. They did not have enough food to eat. This compares to 15,7% of non-LGBT teenagers. It is estimated that 371.000 USA teenagers face hunger due to food insecurity. As usual, race plays an exacerbating role, with white and non-Hispanic LGBTQ students scoring similar to their cisgender fellow students.

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OTHER NEWS

• 2 August 2023 – A US federal appeals court upholds trans rights in Indiana school bathroom case
• 26 July 2023 – A middle school for LGBTQ+ teens will open in USA State Arizona next year. Public vouchers will fund it
• 19 July 2023 – Brave USA Republican presidential candidate Asa Hutchinson goes against transphobic legislations by extremist right-wing Republicans
• 19 July 2023 – USA State Virginia adopts new policies that force trans students to use the wrong bathrooms & pronouns
• 14 July 2023 – Brave US Tennessee mother blasts school board for proposed policy to out trans students
• 14 July 2023 – US Wisconsin teacher fired for speaking out against school banning the song “Rainbowland”
• 29 June 2023 – Fascist stabs professor and two student in gender class in Toronto, Canada
• 28 June 2023 – Everything you know about (USA) anti-sodomy laws is probably wrong
• 28 June 2023 – Progressive org demands school district ban the Bible after it banned other “obscene” books
• 23 June 2023 – Multiple USA New Jersey school districts approve measures to out trans & nonbinary students to parents
• 14 June 2023 – The American Medical Association voted to protect access to gender-affirming care for transgender youth and to actively oppose limiting legislation
• 14 June 2023 – US Massachusetts high school pride celebration banners torn down by phobic students, school undertakes action
• 14 June 2023 – US Californian gay teacher tries to become anti-trans celebrity on the brink of his retirement
• 12 June 2023 – Canadian ultra-rightwing activists and parents ask kids to stomp on rainbow flags in protest against LGBTQ people
• 10 June 2023 – Britain stops giving puberty blockers unless it is for research. According to the New York Times the reason is that the NHS cannot keep up with the growing demand.
• 9 June 2023 – US Arizona governor vetoes anti-trans bill for trying to harm children
• 7 June 2023 – Violent clashes between US Californian pro-LGBTQ and anti-gender protections and gender demonstrators
• 2 June 2023 – School district bans Bible after “indecent” materials complaint
• 1 June 2023 – Florida teachers forced to explain they’re not teaching kids to be gay
• 1 June 2023 – LGBTQ+ parents need to safeguard their parental rights. A new report explains how to do that
• 1 June 2023 – US Arkansas parents sue library system to fight back against anti-LGBTQ+ book censorship
• 23 May 2023 – Proposed Polish law intends to eradicate reliable sex education by NGOs
• 17 May 2023 – Penguin sues Florida school district over book ban
• 17 May 2023 – LGBT organizations sue U.S. state Florida over trans kids ban
• 15 May 2023 – US Ohio radical parents vote against school improvement funding just to show their anger about allowing trans children use a bathroom
• 16 May 2023 – US Home department warns about escalating politically motivated violence against LGBT people, mostly related to polarized fights to censure education
• 16 May 2023 – US Florida governor DeSantis signs bill censoring diversity programs in state universities
• 2 May 2023 – Two US Californian extremist teachers sue their district saying their religion requires them to out trans kids to their parents
• 2 May 2023 – Republican Governor Kevin Stitt signed the S.B. 613, which bans all forms of transgender health care (including reversible puberty blockers) for anyone under the age of 18 in Oklahoma (USA)
• 2 May 2023 – A discussion about what the Bible says about transgender people
• 2 May 2023 – US Oklahoma governor rejects funding for TV network because one of their comics “indoctrinates” kids to be friendly
• 1 May 2023 – A barrage of hate speech confronts professor in a US Utah university who shared she has a trans kid, , but there is also student support
• 28 April 2023 – Two College Students in China Were Disciplined for Giving Out Pride Flags

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