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Thursday, October 26th, 2023

Teachers Are Leaving Jobs in Kentucky and Florida as Anti-LGBTQ Laws Proliferate

Author:     Orion Rummler
Source:     truthout / The 19th
Publication Date:     September 29, 2023
 Link: Teachers Are Leaving Jobs in Kentucky and Florida as Anti-LGBTQ Laws Proliferate
Stephan:  

Further evidence that we are becoming two very different countries in a single nation one, the Republican Red states, increasingly inferior to the Democrat Blue States. Poorer healthcare, higher maternal mortality, increased child poverty, inferior education, and the list goes on. If this continues for another decade, choosing which state to live in, will become a major decision with all kinds of implications.

People gather for a rally organized by LGBTQ youth and adults in opposition to Senate Bill 150 and also to celebrate Trans Day of Visibility in Lexington, Kentucky, on March 31, 2022.
Credit: Silas Walker / Lexington Herald-Leader / Tribune News / Getty S

In Florida and Kentucky, teachers are struggling under the weight of the most extreme anti-LGBTQ+ education laws in the country. And some of them are leaving — either their profession or their state.

Nick Clarkson, a transgender man who has been teaching for 13 years, resigned last month from the New College of Florida after the college voted to eliminate the gender studies program where he taught.

Policies enacted this year by the state’s board of education, or signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis, would keep Clarkson from telling students the pronouns that match his gender identity — which he’s used for all of his adult life — and from being able to use the correct restroom on campus. As policies started going into effect this summer, the surreal new reality of being a […]

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