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From book bans to 'Don’t Say Gay' bill, LGBTQ kids feel 'erased' in the classroom
NBC News / Comcast ^ | February 20, 2022 | By Matt Lavietes

Posted on 02/20/2022 10:59:11 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Students have repeatedly vandalized Pride posters at Spencer Lyst’s high school in Williamson County, Tennessee. Teachers have skipped over LGBTQ issues in class textbooks. Trans kids in his state have been legally barred from competing on school sports teams that align with their gender identity. Parents have called on school officials to remove books about sexual orientation and gender identity from the county’s elementary curriculum. And while leading his school’s Pride club at a September homecoming parade, Lyst and other LGBTQ students were booed by a group of parents.

“I’m so used to it, but it shouldn’t be something I have to think about,” Lyst, 16, said of the near-constant feeling of being attacked at school because of his identity.

He even said it’s “difficult” to walk into the school bathroom for fear of what or who “might be in there.”

“Like, can I go to the bathroom or am I going to get hate for just existing?” he said.

Lyst’s school experience is a far cry from an isolated case.

Since the start of the school year, school officials in states across the country have banned books about gay and trans experiences, removed LGBTQ-affirming posters and flags and disbanded gay-straight alliance clubs. In school districts throughout the nation, students have attacked their queer classmates, while state lawmakers have filed hundreds of anti-LGBTQ bills with many seeking to redefine lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer students’ places in U.S. schools.

In the majority of cases, conservative school officials, lawmakers and parents say LGBTQ issues do not belong in school because they are “political” and “not age-appropriate” for students. Conversely, queer youth and their families, along with LGBTQ and ally teachers, say they feel they are being “erased” from the U.S. education system.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: democrats; homosexualagenda; perverts; schools
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1 posted on 02/20/2022 10:59:11 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There is no such thing as an LGBTQ “kid”. Kids, by definition, are pre-pubescent. Sexuality is not yet relevant to them.


2 posted on 02/20/2022 11:00:37 AM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Quit yer whining. If you get physically attacked, then that's something that has to be handled immediately. Otherwise, freaking get over it. High school is full of cliques and some latent nastiness anyway, and not just for LGTB whatever kids.

Join theater or something.

Heh.

3 posted on 02/20/2022 11:02:09 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin ( .)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Trey have mostly been erased.
And handed a fresh script which they must follow as if it were the word of God.


4 posted on 02/20/2022 11:03:01 AM PST by Leep (Freedom: "What's the big deal" -joe biden)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They should have expected a rebellion because of shoving gay crap at the rest of us. Gays are a minority and shouldn’t bully the majority of us. Sick of their perversions on display in order to intimidate straight kids. Yes, gays can be bullies.


5 posted on 02/20/2022 11:05:33 AM PST by roadcat
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

NBC could say the same thing about Christian kids and teachers being “erased.” When forming school clubs based on their faith, they often meet with resistance from school officials. A teacher/coach in Washington State has gone to the Supreme Court to defend his right to pray on the field after football games.


6 posted on 02/20/2022 11:05:55 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The alphabet people are mentally ill and need serious interventions not acceptance.


7 posted on 02/20/2022 11:09:18 AM PST by technically right
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They need their tragic mental illness erased. What a terrible and unnecessary human-caused disease.


8 posted on 02/20/2022 11:09:23 AM PST by SaxxonWoods ("If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself." - Minquass)
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To: cuban leaf

Correcto


9 posted on 02/20/2022 11:09:56 AM PST by rrrod (6)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How many posters, textbooks, and clubs in these schools celebrate heterosexuality? How much of the curriculum focuses on heterosexual issues, like the roles of fathers and mothers in effective parenting?

None?

Imagine how “erased” the heterosexual kids must feel!


10 posted on 02/20/2022 11:10:15 AM PST by cockroach_magoo
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They should be erased in the classroom. Nobody is supposed to be there on behalf of that crap. Get back to reading, writing, artihmetic, etc.


11 posted on 02/20/2022 11:14:10 AM PST by GingisK
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You’re there to learn, not discuss sex or feelings. There’s a counselor if you need to talk feelings—in private.


12 posted on 02/20/2022 11:15:29 AM PST by Irenic
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There are no “LGBTQ kids”. There are kids with developmental disorders and Leftists who run schools want to make sure the disorders are allowed to progress, oftentimes even forcing the progression.


13 posted on 02/20/2022 11:18:38 AM PST by libh8er
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Whatabout a Zoom class Spencer?


14 posted on 02/20/2022 11:18:54 AM PST by sauropod (Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. Life is risk, your highness.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If the schools did not brainwash these kids into thinking they are LGBTQ, they would be fine, and most would mature into happy productive adults. Well, at least for the 8 years they have left to live before the planet is destroyed by climate change.


15 posted on 02/20/2022 11:21:23 AM PST by ETCM
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

NBC
..ESAD


16 posted on 02/20/2022 11:22:03 AM PST by rrrod (6)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wow. Such a long article, yet apparently there wasn’t space to quote excerpts and screenshot illustrations from the enlightened reading materials referred to.


17 posted on 02/20/2022 11:22:26 AM PST by j.havenfarm (21 years on Free Republic, 12/10/21! More than 5000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“LGBTQ Kids” are sexual freak shows taught the trade in publik skools by low I.Q. college kids posing as “teachers”. If I was just starting the First Grade, I’d drop out. They aren’t teaching anything but liberal bullsh*t there anyway.


18 posted on 02/20/2022 11:23:30 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer ("You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas." - Col. David Crockett to the U.S. Congress.)
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To: sauropod
Whatabout a Zoom class Spencer?

Hey, makes me think of a new product, Zoom Condoms. Endorsed by Jeffrey Toobin, the best to use when you on a video call. Great intro phrase for the ad, "Who's Zoomin' who?".

19 posted on 02/20/2022 11:23:52 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The sick socio-fascists are attempting to sexualize preteens.
20 posted on 02/20/2022 11:26:43 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis )
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