How teachers respond to, and interact with, learners of diverse genders and sexualities is critical to ensuring their safe and inclusive schooling experiences. This paper examines the perspectives and responses towards learners of diverse genders and sexualities of a selected group of teachers in a primary school in South Africa. Twelve teachers…

In the contexts of the Southeastern U.S. and globally, the ascendance of parental rights bills has sought to limit what can be discussed in the classroom related to gender and sexuality as well as limiting access to healthcare for transgender, gender non-conforming, and non-binary individuals (HRC, 2023). In language education, scholastic and…

Introduction: This study investigated independent and interactive associations of resilience and psychological flexibility and racial-ethnic and gender identity in relation to ED risk. Methods: Young adults in the 2022-2023 Healthy Minds Study (N = 24,431) completed the Brief Resilience Scale, Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (AAQ-II), and an…

Purpose: The discipline of communication sciences and disorders (CSD) exhibits notable gender-related disparities despite being predominantly composed of women. Here, we explore how one's gender identity shapes professional experiences within CSD, focusing on barriers, biases, and the lived experiences of cisgender women, cisgender men, and gender…

This study examined the professional identity development of counselors-in-training (CITs), considering the influence of personal and program factors. The data were collected from 198 master's-level CITs enrolled in CACREP-accredited programs. Results of hierarchical multiple regression analyses indicated that CITs' personal traits, such as gender…

This article delves into the challenges of institutional data collection processes in higher education, particularly regarding diversity reporting. The study this article is based on focuses on enhancing inclusivity by introducing a nonbinary sex category into the institutional data of a distinguished Chilean public university. In the Chilean…

Autistic adults have reported experiencing discrimination across settings. Nonetheless, population-based research examining the prevalence of discrimination against autistic individuals has been more limited. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the prevalence of types of discrimination (i.e., due to race or ethnicity, due to sexual orientation…

Choirs are lauded for their psychological, physiological, and social-emotional benefits. For 2SLGBTQ+ people (two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and expansive gender and sexual identities), choir is a place to forge kinship, develop identity, and rally for political action, regardless of whether the choir labels itself as a…

In this conceptual essay, the author draws upon scholarship to reflect on personal experiences in a school associated with the New Apostolic Reformation, a neo-Charismatic Pentecostal network within the broader Christian nationalist movement. The author discusses the educational implications of the NAR's conspiratorial teachings about how demonic…

Children begin to reason about gender and others' gender-typed preferences from early in life, yet not enough is known about whether their reasoning reflects only binary categorization or a more nuanced way understanding of variation in gender. Further, little is known about how children's conception of their own gender affects how they think…

Campus climate can strongly affect the experiences of collegiate students who identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community. Using person-centered methodologies and thriving as methodological and conceptual lenses, we created groups of institutions based on perceptions of climate to illustrate differences in LGBTQ+ student engagement using data from…

Despite flourishing gender studies over the last decades, gender equality continues to reflect imbalance, with the dominance of gender binary thinking, lacking an emphasis on a more fluid approach where children themselves are active participants. The aim of this study was to explore young children's perceptions of gender roles and sexuality. The…

This study analyzes the inclusion of binary and non-binary gender-just language in US first-year college German textbooks. The analysis covers eight textbooks, evaluating their use of gender-just forms such as the gender star and neopronouns, which explicitly represent non-binary positionalities, as well as "neutral" or binary…

Purpose: Even amidst rampant efforts to censor and legislatively regulate queer-identifying people and books about them, many LGBTQ+ adults never had opportunities to see themselves reflected in classroom curriculum. In an effort to use emotions as a lens to understand discursive identity construction, this paper aims to explore how one…

Objective: The current study examines the relationship between polyvictimization and academic performance in college across gender and sexual identity. Participants: Participants were from the Spring 2019 administration of the American College Health Association's National College Health Assessment-II. Methods: Multinomial logistic regression…