Six out of 10 LGBT+ kids feel unsafe in American schools because of their sexual orientation. Meanwhile 43% feel unsafe because of their gender expression and 37% because of their gender.
For around a third of LGBT+ students, those fears have made them miss at least one entire day of school in the past month. Meanwhile 45% avoid bathrooms and 44% avoid locker rooms.
Moreover, more than three quarters skip school functions and seven out of 10 avoid extracurricular activities. Those are some of the major findings from new research by GLSEN.
The LGBT+ organization specializes in education for kindergarten to year 12 students (four to 17-years-old). The study, based on data from 2019, has now come out and builds on two decades of research by