PolitiFact - What is GLSEN and why is its partnership with Target being scrutinized?

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Target has partnered with GLSEN, an education nonprofit that advocates for LGBTQ+ affirmation, inclusion and safety in schools, for 12 years. GLSEN supports policies that let educators maintain student privacy about sexual orientation and gender identity.

Target declined to answer PolitiFact’s questions or comment further.The narrative that GLSEN is promoting"secret child gender transitions" or"" stems from debate about whether educators should be required to inform parents or guardians when students share their sexual orientation or gender identity at school, but make it clear that they haven’t disclosed it at home.

Schools often don’t make a practice of informing parents when students signal they are socially transitioning, The Washington Post. A transition can involve students, their teachers and their peers using the name and pronouns that align with the students’ gender identities. Critics argue that schools and educators should not keep information about a student from parents or guardians.

Parents in at least six states have sued districts over the last three years, arguing that their right to raise their children how they see fit was violated when schools do not inform parents of their children’s social transition or help with students’ social transitions at school, often by using children’s preferred names and pronouns, according to anOn its website, GLSEN has afor how schools should support transgender and nonbinary students — an example of the type of policy the group...

 

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