Gender 101— beyond the binary: Gay-straight alliances and gender activism

Gay–Straight Alliances Are Associated With Student Health: A Multischool Comparison of LGBTQ and Heterosexual Youth

“…Similarly, because many negative indicators and outcomes are associated (e.g., victimization, compromised mental health, substance use, and lower academic achievement; D'Augelli, ; Poteat et al., ; Schwartz, Gorman, Nakamoto, & Toblin, ), alleviating risk on one issue could indirectly lower risk on others. Further, education and advocacy initiatives developed and implemented in schools by GSAs often cover a range of issues, including awareness of school policies, bullying, prejudice, legal rights, and LGBTQ history (Russell & McGuire, ; Russell et al., ; Schindel, ). In addition, we hypothesized that patterns of these effects would differ for LGBTQ and heterosexual youth.…”

The Interactive Impacts of High School Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) on College Student Attitudes Toward LGBT Individuals: An Investigation of High School Characteristics

“…In addition, GSAs might focus their efforts on inclusivity. For example, Schindel (2008) suggests that GSAs should move beyond the gender binary to include genderqueer 7 individuals. Others point to the importance of addressing sexism and gender prejudices while transcending gender assumptions in the context of GSAs (Lipkin, 1999;Perrotti & Westheimer, 2001).…”

Transgender and gender expansive education research, policy and practice: reflecting on epistemological and ontological possibilities of bodily becoming

“…field which addresses how questions of trans informed gender justice are being understood, grappled with and enacted (Bartholomaeus and Riggs 2017;Forhard-Dourlent 2018;Human Rights Campaign and Gender Spectrum 2014;Ingrey 2012;Jones 2016;Martino and Cumming-Potvin 2017;Mayo 2017;Meyer and Leonardi 2018;Robinson et al 2014;Schindel 2008;Sinclair and Gilbert 2018;Smith and Payne 2016;Stiegler 2016;Ullman 2017). However, while acknowledging the necessity of the space that we have opened up for generating trans informed knowledge generation and insights into the enactment of gender democratization at both the policy and practice level, we are conscious of the limits of our efforts.…”