Topic
7 stories
The 2024 Title IX rule that named sexual orientation and gender identity for the first time is formally gone as of September 29, replaced by the 2020 Trump-era text, with no public comment period. What it means for LGBTQ+ students, and what still protects them.
The Board of Health regulatory action was formally withdrawn on July 30. The governor announced it seven weeks later, on a stage at Virginia PrideFest — and the gap between those two dates is part of the story.
A push to force schools to notify parents — and to bar teachers from using a student's chosen name or pronouns without consent — has moved from a handful of statehouses to the center of national politics in 2026.
Across Western Europe, the fight over LGBTQ+ rights has moved into schools. From cancelled diversity programmes in Italy to challenged equality curricula in France and Germany, a once-stable region is quietly importing an American culture-war playbook.
The Justice Department announced on May 1 that it is investigating whether dozens of Illinois public school districts taught what it calls 'sexual orientation and gender ideology' content without parental opt-outs. Governor JB Pritzker called it a 'sham investigation.'
Péter Magyar has named education researcher Judit Lannert to run a ministry that, under Fidesz, was the primary engine of Hungary's anti-LGBTQ+ school policies. The right-wing press is already calling her appointment a scandal.
What started as a quiet protest at the University of Virginia in 1996 is now the largest student-led action for LGBTQ+ school safety in America. Thirty years later, the need for it has only grown.
