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The Disruptive Power of Policy Erasure: How State Legislators and School Boards Fail to Take up Trans-Affirming Policies While Leaning into Anti-LGBTQ+ Policies
- Source :
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Educational Policy . 2024 38(3):642-699. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Since 2017, hostile anti-LGBTQ+ educational bills rapidly expanded. Using traditional and critical policy analysis across three Midwestern states, we examine (1) whether state and local policymakers (n = 60) adopted trans-inclusive protections aligned with the 2017 federal "Whitaker" ruling, (2) the spread and scope of state and local educational policies concerning LGBTQ+ people, and (3) relationships between LGBTQ and critical race theory (CRT) curricular bills. We find policy erasure in states without pre-"Whitaker" gender-inclusive nondiscrimination laws and expanded efforts to ban LGBTQ+ students from educational opportunities, spaces, and curriculum. LGBTQ+ and CRT curricular bans overlapped. We discuss the implications of policymakers leaning into exclusion over gender reforms.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0895-9048 and 1552-3896
- Volume :
- 38
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Educational Policy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ1424025
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Research
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/08959048231218206