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Paid Sick and Family Leave in Maine

Passing LD 369, an Earned Paid Sick Days proposal, is the right thing to do for Maine’s families.

42 percent of LGBT people say they’ve needed to take time off work at some point to care for a sick family member. LGBT couples raising children are also twice as likely to have household incomes near the poverty line compared to their non-LGBT peers — and single LGBT people are three times more likely to live near the poverty threshold than their non-LGBT peers. The reality is that these folks simply can’t afford to take unpaid time off work, and this proposal would make a huge difference. Earned paid sick leave would also be significant to members of the transgender community, older Mainers, and folks living with HIV/AIDS.

It’s important that our public policy acknowledges that families in Maine take diverse forms. To that end, we are especially supportive of this proposal’s inclusive definition of family, which recognizes that many Mainers, especially LGBT people, have chosen or extended family whom they care for.

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Response to New York Times Report of Trump Administration’s Latest Move Against Transgender People

Statement of GLAD Transgender Rights Project Director Jennifer Levi

Today’s 《纽约时报》 report that the Trump Administration is considering a proposal to define the word “sex” for legal purposes in a way that deliberately excludes transgender people is one more example of this administration’s disregard of human rights and its heartless political strategy of attacking the most vulnerable among us.

The reactionary policies of this administration have caused and will cause too many to suffer. But staying focused on the changes that our community, friends, and allies have so bravely brought about through our advocacy, our words, and our deeds, sustains me.  It informs my firm belief that the callousness of this administration is an aberration. We will persist, justice will win out, and this challenging moment will not define our country’s future.

This reported move is in conflict with the approach of both federal and state courts and government agencies in interpreting laws prohibiting sex discrimination. Even though the administration is working hard to delegitimize the federal judiciary upon which so many civil rights advancements have depended, we know that justice means justice for all.  GLAD will never back down from pursuing protections and challenging unconstitutional laws and policies in the courts. 

But just as importantly, the ideology being pushed by this administration is contrary to the beliefs and vision of countless leaders in education, business, medical and scientific communities, and among political leaders who have been willing to work across the aisle when rights and safety have been at stake.  It also stands in stark contrast with the lives and experience of transgender people, our families, friends, neighbors and coworkers, all across this great nation.

The bottom line is that this administration has a transparent, callous, political agenda – and it is willing to undermine our most fundamental institutions to pursue it. We have seen this at work everywhere from the military – where Trump continues to pursue his ban on transgender troops despite its proven negative impact on military readiness and vocal opposition from military leaders – to the arenas of education, employment, and healthcare. It is a toxic agenda, dangerous to us all.

This administration continues to act rashly and in mean-spirited ways. But we have the power to counter it. We are strong and resilient. We will not back down and cannot be erased. We will continue telling the truth about our lives, treating one another with compassion, and fighting for justice. It is imperative that we act now, 和 our collective power, to stand up for what is right. We have an opportunity on November 6 to voice our values, to support candidates who believe in fairness, and reject those who use human beings as political pawns.

In Massachusetts, we face a critical vote – one that offers the chance to affirm the dignity and humanity of transgender people and to uphold the value of treating one another with respect. How Massachusetts votes on Question 3 will impact the direction 的 our nation. I am hopeful that the people in my home state will vote Yes on 3 到 preserve the transgender civil rights law which we fought so long and so hard to pass. I am optimistic that we will demonstrate, once again, that the cruel agenda of a few does not reflect the will of We, the People.

The reactionary policies of this administration have caused and will cause too many to suffer. But staying focused on the changes that our community, friends, and allies have so bravely brought about through our advocacy, our words, and our deeds, sustains me.  It informs my firm belief that the callousness of this administration is an aberration. We will persist, justice will win out, and this challenging moment will not define our country’s future.

GLAD at Pride Portland

GLAD will be tabling at the Pride Portland! 2018 Festival. Stop by and say hello! Details here.

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在我们运动的历史上,这是第一次在共和党控制的州通过并签署一项独立的跨性别反歧视法案。这将成为全国其他地区的典范,让我们展望未来捍卫和捍卫公平与平等的斗争。

上周,新罕布什尔州州长苏努努签署了HB 1319法案,该法案将保护全州跨性别者在就业、住房和公共场所免受歧视。随着州长的签署,新罕布什尔州成为新英格兰地区第六个也是最后一个确保跨性别者像其他人一样享有安全的生活和工作权利、免受歧视的州。这是我们运动历史上首次在共和党控制的州通过并签署独立的跨性别反歧视法案。

这一刻在花岗岩州已经酝酿了十年,是 GLAD 推动整个地区全面平等工作的一个重要里程碑。.

我记得新罕布什尔州众议员埃德·巴特勒打电话给我,说他想提出一项保护跨性别者免受歧视的法案。那是2008年,同性恋者反歧视联盟(GLAD)在新英格兰地区赢得了反歧视保护的立法胜利后,一直在为LGBTQ群体的平等权利造势。那时,所有六个州都已通过了性取向保护法案,罗德岛州、缅因州和佛蒙特州更是将性别认同纳入了州反歧视法。康涅狄格州也在2011年将性别认同纳入了反歧视法。同年,马萨诸塞州通过了就业、信贷和住房领域的性别认同反歧视保护法案,并于2016年通过了公共场所的跨性别保护法案。

我毫不犹豫地说:“那就这么做吧。”

2009年,我们向立法机构提交了跨性别反歧视法案的初稿,并以一票之差在众议院获得通过。在组织初期,我们与来自跨性别群体的六人组成的小团体合作,热情地在参议院委员会面前作证。法案提交参议院投票的那天,婚姻平权也提上了日程。我们在那一天赢得了结婚的自由。但参议院迅速否决了跨性别反歧视法案。

那一刻是一声集结号,基层社区组织的种子就此种下。

GLAD 与 Transgender NH(一个由跨性别者群体组成并服务于跨性别者群体的组织)合作,为赢得全州性别认同反歧视保护奠定了基础。我们共同努力,开始与社区领导者建立联系,例如长期倡导者 Gerri Cannon。我们提供法律专业知识和资源,以开展公共教育活动,并 通过故事书分享全州跨性别者的经历、图片和视频。

这是 GLAD 在新罕布什尔州进行强大、持续投资和建立关系的基础,并带来了一些规模虽小但影响深远的胜利,包括 更新该州机动车辆管理局的政策 驾驶执照上的性别标记变化和 结束医疗补助覆盖范围的歧视性排除 与性别转变相关的手术。

这一刻在花岗岩州已经酝酿了十年,是 GLAD 推动整个地区实现全面平等工作的一个重要里程碑。

到2016年,新罕布什尔州是新英格兰地区唯一一个没有明确法律保障跨性别者获得公平和平等待遇的州。同性恋者反歧视联盟(GLAD)与“全民自由”(Freedom for All Americans)组织共同协助成立了“自由新罕布什尔联盟”(Freedom New Hampshire alliance)。这是一个跨党派联盟,致力于提升对HB 1319法案的支持率。HB 1319法案旨在将性别认同纳入州反歧视法,该法案由众议员巴特勒发起。

这项新的活动由新罕布什尔州跨性别者组织 (Transgender NH)、新罕布什尔州美国公民自由联盟 (ACLU of NH)、权利与民主 (Rights & Democracy) 和人权运动 (Human Rights Campaign) 共同发起,为我们的运动注入了一剂强心针。活动由跨性别社区成员及其家人推动,并由一位自豪的非二元性别者——林兹·雅科夫斯 (Linds Jakows) 领导。这场由新罕布什尔州自由组织 (Freedom New Hampshire) 发起的草根公共教育活动,在全州范围内获得了前所未有的两党支持,推动跨性别平等。

正是在今年的立法听证会上,我才意识到争取平等的势头有多么强劲。数百名支持者——立法者、地方和州政府官员,以及跨性别群体、他们的家人和盟友——在众议院和参议院听证会期间挤满了州议会大厦,并提供了超过12个小时的有力证词。

感谢跨性别群体成员的战略性、组织性和坚持不懈的努力,他们是这场胜利的真正捍卫者。一项独立的跨性别反歧视法案终于在一个共和党控制的州获得通过并签署——这在我们运动历史上尚属首次。我相信,这将成为全国其他地区的典范,让我们展望未来捍卫公平与平等的斗争。 包括在马萨诸塞州,我们正在努力争取在今年 11 月的选举中维护对跨性别者的基本保护.

随着HB 1319法案的签署,新英格兰所有六个州都已为LGBTQ群体提供了全面的反歧视保护。GLAD很荣幸能够与该地区的社区携手合作,共同推进平等。我们还有很长的路要走。但我们四十年来为这些胜利奠定的基础,已为我们未来的斗争做好了准备,以保护这些权利,并确保新英格兰乃至全国所有人的未来都能享有平等和正义。

Maine BMV to Allow for Non-Binary State IDs

LGBTQ, civil rights organizations celebrate agreement with Maine BMV that allows non-binary gender designation on driver’s licenses, ID cards

PORTLAND — EqualityMaine, GLAD, MaineTransNet, and the ACLU of Maine joined together today to celebrate an agreement with the Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles, which will begin offering the option of a non-binary gender designation on driver’s licenses and identification cards. The agreement is the result of a complaint filed with the Maine Human Rights Commission by Portland attorney and EqualityMaine’s board president, Zack Paakkonen, on behalf of his client, Ian-Meredythe Dehne Lindsey. In June of 2017, Dehne Lindsey, a resident of South Portland, requested a driver’s license with a non-binary gender marker at the Presumpscot Street BMV branch office in Portland, but was denied as a result of current computer system limitations. After receiving the complaint, the Maine Human Rights Commission invited the parties to participate in mediation; this agreement is the result of the mediation process. At this time, the face of existing credentials show an “M” for male or “F” for female. Upon receipt of a completed Gender Designation Form, the BMV will issue a sticker for the license or ID that will read: “Gender has been changed to X — Non-binary.” In conjunction with a system upgrade and new design for licenses and IDs, which will be completed no later than July 2019, the gender information on the front of the card will be displayed as “M”, “F” or “X” and the sticker will be phased out. By making this change, Maine becomes the first state in New England to adopt non-binary gender designations on driver’s licenses and ID cards. Maine is the third state in the country to adopt this policy; Washington, DC and Oregon have already begun offering a non-binary gender designation on their driver’s licenses, and California will implement the change in January 2019. The following quotes can be attributed as noted: Ian-Meredythe Dehne Lindsey, the client in the case: “Words cannot adequately express the relief I feel, and how happy I am, that my ID will now reflect such an integral part of my identity and who I am.” Zack Paakkonen, the attorney who represented Dehne Lindsey and Board President of EqualityMaine: “It’s exciting to see Maine’s Bureau of Motor Vehicles adopt this change. We know gender is a spectrum and some people don’t identify as male or female. It’s important that driver’s licenses and other forms of IDs recognize people who are non-binary. Removing barriers for people is critical to helping all of us live healthy, productive lives.” Quinn Gormley, Executive Director, MaineTransNet: “This change represents the next major step towards full legal recognition of the lives of transgender Mainers. Affirming and accurate ID’s help to break down significant barriers to housing, employment, and education faced by many transgender people. We’re celebrating this progress, and the visibility it brings to beloved non-binary members of our community. ” Mary Bonauto, Civil Rights Project Director, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD): “Identity documents play a substantial role in how we all navigate the world. Without an ID that matches who you are, trouble is sure to follow. All people deserve to be treated with dignity and respect, and this simple change makes that possible for more Mainers today.” Oamshri Amarasingham, Advocacy Director, ACLU of Maine: “We are thrilled by this important move by the BMV. Transgender and gender nonconforming people, like all people, deserve to live their lives without the government compromising their privacy, safety, autonomy, dignity, or equality.” Founded in 1984, EqualityMaine is dedicated to achieving full equality under the law for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Mainers, and currently has more than 76,000 members statewide. MaineTransNet is a community-based organization that supports and empowers transgender people across Maine to create a world where they can thrive through peer-based support groups, community organizing, education, and advocacy. Through strategic litigation, public policy advocacy, and education, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) works in New England and nationally to create a just society free of discrimination based on gender identity and expression, HIV status, and sexual orientation. The ACLU of Maine is the state’s guardian of liberty, working in the courts, the legislature and the public sphere to defend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights for all Mainers. # # #

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On June 5, 2018, the Kittery, Maine School Committee unanimously passed a policy protecting transgender and gender expansive students – a critical step forward for making schools safe and affirming for all youth. GLAD staff attorney Patience Crozier submitted a letter of support of this important policy. Read it here.

Kittery joins Portland and South Portland in passing transgender and gender expansive school policies. Portland School District adopted its Policy on November 28th, 2017.

Read Kittery’s adopted Policy here.

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Earlier this month, Mary Bonauto and I were invited to speak on a panel about LGBTQ youth at a Maine Judicial Conference in Lewiston, for all persons involved in “child protection” cases. Over 400 judges, lawyers, GALs (guardians appointed by the court to represent the child’s interest) and child protection workers gathered for two days of trainings on best practices in child protection.

What is “child protection” and how does it connect to LGBTQ youth?

The “child protection” or child welfare system is intended to protect youth from abuse and neglect. LGBTQ youth are disproportionately represented in that system. Some youth enter the child welfare system due to rejection from their families of origin; others have supportive families of origin and are in the system due to other challenges facing their caregivers. LGBTQ adults are also clients of this system – as parents and caregivers dealing with allegations of abuse or neglect, or as adults serving as foster or pre-adoptive parents. The child welfare system touches so many LGBTQ lives and communities.

At GLAD we are concerned with ensuring both the wellbeing of LGBTQ youth within the system, and fair treatment of LGBTQ parents as well as parents who support their LGBTQ children and whose fitness is challenged on that basis.

Our panel, LGBTQ Considerations in Child Protection Law, was moderated by the Honorable Ellen Gorman of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, and joining us on the panel was a youth from the Maine Youth Leadership Advisory Team (YLAT), parent attorney and GAL Zachary Paakkonen, and Assistant Attorney General Lise Wagner. Mary and I talked about LGBTQ youth 101, with terms, highlights of youth legal rights in Maine, and realities and risk factors for LGBTQ youth in child welfare systems.

What were some of the key take aways from our presentation for professionals serving LGBTQ youth in the child welfare system in Maine?

  • From the Maine Human Rights Act to the Maine Anti-Bullying Law to Federal and State constitutional protections, advocates should stand up for the youth in their care and access the robust laws protecting LGBTQ youth in Maine.
  • Every professional working with youth – judges, court staff, lawyers, guardians ad litem and social workers – have ethical obligations to work with youth in an unbiased and nondiscriminatory manner.
  • LGBTQ youth are everywhere in Maine – according to the 2017 Maine Integrated Youth Health Survey, 10.8% of high school youth in Maine identify as LGB and 1.5% identify as transgender.
  • LGBTQ youth in Maine are vulnerable to bias, discrimination, bullying, and family rejection.  According to the 2015 GLSEN Maine School Climate Snapshot, 66% of LGBTQ students in Maine reported being harassed or assaulted because of their sexual orientation. And, according to the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey results from Maine, 80% of transgender youth in Maine schools experienced mistreatment. These unique risk factors for LGBTQ youth lead to their over-representation in the child welfare system.

Adults serving LGBTQ youth have the unique opportunity to have a concrete, positive impact on the lives of LGBTQ youth by:

  • Recognizing that every youth has a sexual orientation and a gender identity
  • Understanding that being LGBTQ isn’t a choice or something that youth can change
  • Acknowledging that any youth they serve may be LGBTQ
  • Educating themselves on LGBTQ issues and resources, including the unique harms LGBTQ youth face
  • Communicating to all youth that they are an LGBTQ ally
  • Using open and inclusive language
  • Learning and using chosen names and pronouns
  • Respecting privacy and confidentiality
  • Listening to youth and advocating for their individual needs

As the YLAT youth so eloquently said at the event, adults need to listen, be themselves, find common ground with youth and build relationships.

Below are resources in Maine and nationally for LGBTQ youth and supportive adults. If you require legal assistance or information, we’re here for you. Contact us at GLAD Answers, our legal information line, at 800-455-GLAD or visit www.GLADAnswers.org.

MAINE LGBTQ RESOURCES

缅因州平等组织

GLSEN Southern Maine

波特兰直接

American Civil Liberties Union of Maine

NATIONAL LGBTQ RESOURCES

PFLAG (National)

性别光谱

特雷弗计划

访问 Resources for Youth in Maine for a full list of resources both in Maine and nationally.

Banning So-Called “Conversion Therapy” in ME

Update May 29, 2019, Governor Janet Mills signs bill, making Maine the 17th state in the U.S. to ban the practice of conversion therapy on LGBTQ youth.

April 10, 2019, the Maine Joint Standing Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance, and Financial Services held a public hearing on LD 1025, An Act To Prohibit the Provision of Conversion Therapy to Minors by Certain Licensed Professionals. Dr. Judith Glassgold, of the New Jersey Psychological Association, submitted testimony in support of this bill. 在这里阅读。

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GLAD is engaged in advocacy work across New England to help create safe and affirming communities for LGBTQ young people, and that includes the juvenile justice system. Together with our local partners, we are working hard to reform a system that disproportionately harms LGBTQ youth.

LGBTQ youth, particularly LGBTQ youth of color, are overrepresented in the juvenile justice system due to stereotypes, pervasive stigma, bias, and structural factors. Family rejection, unsupportive schools and discriminatory policing practices contribute to increased interactions between LGBTQ youth and the juvenile and criminal justice systems.

Recent research by the Movement Advancement Project (MAP) reveals that 20 percent of the youth in seven juvenile detention centers and correctional facilities across the U.S. identify as LGBTQ or gender non-conforming, which is almost three times their estimated number in the general population. And LGBTQ youth of color are disproportionately more likely to be targeted by the juvenile justice system, with Black youth four times as likely as white youth to be incarcerated, and Latinx youth nearly twice as likely as white youth to be incarcerated.

MAP’s research on the experience of LGBTQ youth once they are in the system found that many are placed in prisons without respect for their gender identity or expression. Additionally, youth prisons are often ill equipped to meet the needs of LGBTQ youth and ensure their safety. This puts LGBTQ youth at increased risk for harassment, violence, and sexual assault by other youth and staff.

GLAD is seeing these nationwide trends in focus at Long Creek, a juvenile detention center and prison in Maine, and is deeply engaged in a critical intervention there to support the youth inside. We became involved with Long Creek when we learned that a detained transgender youth died by suicide last November by demanding a thorough and transparent investigation of the youth’s tragic death.

Through our work, we have uncovered that the facility’s conditions do not comply with federal standards. And we have learned that 30 percent of youth in its custody identify as LGBTQ and are at increased risk of harm, facing daily harassment and abuse by staff and other inmates due to their perceived or actual sexual orientation.

GLAD Civil Rights Project Director Mary L. Bonauto and GLAD Senior Staff Attorney Patience Crozier have been deeply involved with the youth in Long Creek and are now representing two young people who are LGBTQ or perceived to be, advocating alongside them for their safety and ultimately their release from Long Creek. Bonauto has been personally visiting Long Creek virtually every week since last November, checking on the facility’s conditions and on our clients.

Two of our clients have become courageous advocates for themselves and other LGBTQ youth in Long Creek. Speaking honestly about the realities of living in a place like Long Creek is part of their advocacy. For example, it is important to them to be referred to as inmates, not residents, an unambiguous message for us all that Long Creek is a prison, cell blocks and all.

Our clients and their peers are remarkably resilient in spite of Long Creek’s harmful environment, thanks in notable part to the support of local organization Portland Outright and Executive Director Osgood.

Operating in Portland since the 1990s, 波特兰直接 is a youth-driven program that supports underserved LGBTQ+ youth through ongoing mentorship, social events and trainings, as well as intentional support to youth navigating systems, such as the foster care system, homelessness, mental health services, and the juvenile justice system, including Long Creek.

“At the core of Portland Outright has always been young people mobilizing other young people to be at the table about decisions being made in their own lives, supported by a network of adult mentors,” says Osgood.

About five years ago, the organization started focusing on mobilizing low-income LGBTQ young people around gender and racial and economic justice, which drove their work in homeless shelters, residential treatment centers, and eventually Long Creek.

“We’d been working a lot with low-income folks and folks experiencing homelessness,” Osgood says. “One of the things we were hearing was that a lot of them were coming into contact with the juvenile justice system, either going in and out of Long Creek or leaving Long Creek and going straight into homelessness or into residential treatment that was creating further harm.”

To support the LGBTQ youth incarcerated in Long Creek, Portland Outright created Sexuality and Gender Awareness For Everyone (SAFE) Group, a space inside Long Creek where “young people can talk to each other and organize or create the kinds of connections that help them survive the day-to-day while also creating a vision for a more just system for community-based alternatives to incarceration,” Osgood says. “They talk about the conditions of incarceration but also the systems that are funneling LGBTQ young people into incarceration –  the school to prison pipeline, the mental health system, lack of healthcare, homelessness.”

Portland Outright has also collaborated with Maine Inside Out, an organization that uses original theater inside and outside correctional facilities to initiate dialogue and build community across boundaries. A new collaboration between the two organizations involves opportunities to create visual art pieces made by incarcerated LGBTQ youth. An installation of that visual work is part of “Love Is: Alternatives to Incarceration,” a showcase of theater, film, and visual art. The body of work is a catalyst for young people and the outside community “to have conversations about their vision of justice and of the communities they want to live in,” says Osgood.

We are proud to collaborate with Portland Outright and Maine Inside Out to empower and advocate for and with youth and to find solutions for systemic change.

“Getting to know our youth clients over the past year has been a privilege,” says Crozier. “Their strength and resilience in the face of inhumane conditions is inspiring. And, witnessing how community organizations like Portland Outright and Maine Inside Out have supported their voices and empowerment reminds me of how important it is to fight to keep hope and that we can change the systems that care for our youth.”

“Partnering with GLAD has been like coming home to our community in lots of ways,” says Osgood. “To have folks with a legal lens, who show up consistently for our members and are willing to do the community building, as well as the advocacy work, has really been a gift for the movement that we’re building.”

And we are making progress. Earlier this year, one of our clients was released early to after-care. Another of our clients still inside has become a resident leader and has a treatment program that better meets his needs. Our clients contributed their stories and voices in a federal audit process that led to the facility failing to meet federal standards and having to undergo policy and training changes. Maine’s Department of Corrections is in the process of updating their transgender and intersex policy based on our recommendations and continued advocacy.

And just last month, an expert assessment on Long Creek authorized by the Maine Juvenile Justice Advisory Group was released, highlighting problems at Long Creek and providing a roadmap of recommendations for addressing concerns GLAD has raised over the past year. We are working with Portland Outright, Maine Inside Out, and others on the ground in Long Creek, to push for immediate and dramatic changes at Long Creek, such as:

  • Releasing the 25-50% of youth currently at Long Creek who, according to the assessment, should not be there.
  • Correcting the serious safety concerns of the youth in Long Creek.
  • Developing policy and training about LGBTQ youth.
  • Increasing resources and accountability from the State for funding community-based alternatives to incarceration, such as residential facilities and family and community support services.

“This report confirms what we already know: prisons do not work for youth,” says Bonauto. “We expect the committed leadership of Long Creek and staff and supervisors to seize this opportunity to take a hard and urgent look at rebuilding the medical and mental health services youth need based on research and experiences that work well elsewhere.”

There is much work to be done, in and outside of Long Creek. But the courageous youth determined to change their futures give us hope. GLAD will keep fighting for them, will keep supporting their self-advocacy to send the message that LGBTQ youth, like all youth, deserve to be safe, welcomed, and loved for who they are.

Portland Approves Inclusive Trans Student Policy


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GLAD Applauds Portland’s New Policy on Affirmation and Full Inclusion of Transgender and Gender Expansive Students

(PORTLAND, ME, November 28, 2017) – GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) applauds the comprehensive policy on fair treatment of transgender and gender expansive students adopted by the Portland School Committee tonight by unanimous vote.

Aiming to “foster a learning environment that is safe, affirming, and free from discrimination, harassment and bullying for all students,” the policy resulted from a collaborative process involving Portland students, families, teachers, administrators, and community members.

“Students are better able to learn when they are respected and supported for who they are. With inclusive and affirming educational environments, all students benefit,” said Patience Crozier, Senior Staff Attorney at GLAD. “GLAD is proud to support the work of the Portland community, which came together to create this excellent policy to ensure all students are respected and can focus on the work of learning, growing, and realizing their full potential.”

The new Portland policy embraces best practices for addressing important considerations including name and pronoun use, school facilities, gender-segregated programs and practices, dress codes and privacy and confidentiality. The policy also includes provisions for supportive annual training for school staff, teachers, and administrators. “When transgender and gender expansive youth are respected, they can focus and learn,” said Crozier. “That’s what this is all about – ensuring that all students are able to thrive in school.”

The policy is consistent with Maine law. The Maine Human Rights Act of 2005 requires nondiscrimination in schools, which are public accommodations. GLAD litigated the case of Orono middle school student Nicole Maines in 2014, resulting in a ground-breaking Maine Supreme Court ruling that denying a transgender girl the use of the girls’ room violated her rights. GLAD provided research, review and comment on the Portland policy language and structure, benefitting from insights gained in the Maines case.

通过战略诉讼、公共政策倡导和教育,GLBTQ 法律倡导者和辩护人致力于在新英格兰和全国范围内创建一个没有基于性别认同和表达、艾滋病毒状况和性取向的歧视的公正社会。

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接触:
Amanda Johnston, Director of Public Affairs & Education, ajohnston@glad.org / (617) 417-7769

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