{"id":162,"date":"2016-06-26T03:45:29","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T03:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/?p=162"},"modified":"2016-06-26T03:45:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T03:45:29","slug":"op-ed-case-lgbt-inclusive-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2016\/06\/26\/op-ed-case-lgbt-inclusive-education\/","title":{"rendered":"OP-ED: The Case for LGBT-Inclusive Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The alarming rate of bullying, homelessness, HIV and suicide among LGBT youth should be an outrage: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pflagnyc.org\/safeschools\/statistics\">Nearly a fifth of students<\/a> are physically assaulted because they are LGBT; among homeless children, 25 to 50 percent are LGBT; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/hiv\/group\/age\/youth\/index.html\">the CDC reports<\/a> among youth aged 13 to 24 diagnosed with HIV in 2014, 80 percent were gay and bisexual males; and gay teens are also eight times more likely to report having attempted suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the outrage swirls around who gets to use whose bathroom. Sparked by North Carolina&#8217;s &#8220;bathroom bill&#8221;, the legal battle over transgender rights recently escalated to include over a dozen states suing the federal government in response to the Obama administration&#8217;s transgender bathroom policy. What if all the time, energy and taxpayer money spent on litigation were invested toward providing comprehensive LGBT inclusive health education for all children?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/feature\/nbc-out\/op-ed-case-lgbt-inclusive-education-n588996\">Read the entire post here. \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The alarming rate of bullying, homelessness, HIV and suicide among LGBT youth should be an outrage: Nearly a fifth of students are physically assaulted because they are LGBT; among homeless children, 25 to 50 percent are LGBT; the CDC reports among youth aged 13 to 24 diagnosed with HIV in 2014, 80 percent were gay&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2016\/06\/26\/op-ed-case-lgbt-inclusive-education\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}