Discrimination Against Queer Students

Queer people experience name-calling, bullying, and harassment faced by individuals in schools who are unfamiliar with their gender identity or expression. The voices of queer students from certain regions of the United States that are in K – 12th grade are being unheard and not protected. Many queer students face harsh treatment from their peers and many of them are not held accountable for their actions. States, cities, and education institutes are recognizing the unfair treatment that queer students face and are adopting laws and policies to prohibit name-calling, bullying, harassment, and discrimination against students on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity or expression. Even though a few states, cities, and education

The newspaper describes the bill as if the bill is being used to brainwash their children into believing that homosexuality is acceptable lifestyle and that the bill does not consider the serious mental health issues that could happen to their children. The newspaper shows the opposing side of how certain groups believe that because the term queer is used in anti-bully bill for students, that it will harm their children and convert them. Any queer terms that are used or could be implemented makes conservative families/groups feel that it will influence their children to act in homosexual activity and go against their morals. Save California is one of several conservative groups that oppose the new bill, who believe that their children have to be taken out of school on the Day of Silence in order to protect their child from receiving messages that prompt distasteful sexual lifestyles that certain parents may not support. They have even created a website “designed to show parents how to home-school their children and how to afford tuition for private school.” (Barnes) Conservative groups/families believe that having their children stay at home and watch TV that promotes heterosexuality will promote their children to believe in ideals of traditional marriage and values. The news article does not comply for either side because they are just presenting the opposing argument on how certain families or groups could feel about the new upcoming anti-bullying bill for queers. They layout how certain families have already taken steps to withdraw their children from partaking in the Day of Silence or have them be transferred if the bill were to ever be passed. They reference Laurie Higgins with the Illinois Family Institute who does not support the bill. She is activist and she belongs to a Social Movement of conservative believers who believe that