The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention republished a "self-assessment tool" urging teachers, administrators, school health staff, and others to become an "awesome ally" by advocating for LGBT causes in school. The document cites multiple LGBT activist groups, including a division of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
The tool includes four assessments, one each for all users, administrators, educators, and school health services staff.
- "Commit to Change," "Beginning to Break Through," and "Awesome Ally"
- The general self-assessment encourages education leaders to adopt certain mindsets, such as "I cannot assume a student's gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation," and urges them to adopt "inclusive" terminology
- Administrators are encouraged to alter their school health policies to include explicit anti-bullying and nondiscrimination policies for LGBTQ students
- Health services staff are urged to set up "visual labels" to demonstrate support for LGBT causes in the school's clinic, to offer intake forms with separate sections for "gender identity and sex at birth," to use students' chosen names and pronouns, and to offer "LGBTQ-specific health pamphlets"
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