School hate crimes targeting LGBTQ people have sharply risen in recent years, climbing fastest in states that have passed laws restricting LGBTQ student rights and education, a Washington Post analysis of FBI data finds. wapo.st/3PhyzB7
Are you a student or the parent of a student who is facing or has faced harassment or bullying at school for being LGBTQ+? We’re looking to speak with families who have experienced anti-LGBTQ+ bullying, as such harassment spikes nationwide. Share here: wapo.st/49OFKJg
@washingtonpost The "Christian" right is at war with public education's mission to serve all students while they have demanded vouchers, charters, home school legislation, defunding public schools every which way in the name of 'taxpayers'. I too am a taxpayer who now home schools a trans teen.
@washingtonpost GOP cruelty is the point. Just peruse these very comments.
@washingtonpost That's logical. All those laws are doing is providing cover for people to bully lgbtq+ citizens.
@washingtonpost Because discrimination is the MAGA way.
@washingtonpost one man's "education" is another's indoctrination. how about we teach that all bullying is wrong and save the lgbtq "education" for the home?
@washingtonpost Now do school shootings perpetrated by LGBTQ community members...
@washingtonpost Wait, you mean passing laws that promote hate serves to incite hate on the streets? Who'd have thunk it?
@washingtonpost Now show how rapidly LGBTQ identification in public schools has risen sharply in recent years.
@washingtonpost "Misgendering" is not a hate crime lol