More States Want to Restrict How LGBTQ+ People, Issues Are Discussed in Schools

“It’s a perfect storm for exacerbating what’s already a growing problem.'

call for schools — or specifically teachers, counselors, and nurses — to inform parents about a student questioning their gender identity or being transgender.

HRC is especially concerned with how the bills frame restrictions on LGBTQ+ students as supporting parents’ rights, she said — including mandating that parents should know if their child comes out at school, but not at home. Austin Johnson, who teaches sociology at Kenyon College and studies LGBTQ+ health, is worried that bills focused on schools — amid other— will make the growing problem of poor mental health among LGBTQ+ youth even worse.

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