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Board member urges support for transgender youth, cites Trevor Project findings
Summary
A board member delivered a personal statement urging support for transgender and nonbinary youth and cited research linking anti-trans laws to increases in suicide attempts; no on-record rebuttal occurred during the meeting.
During the "old business" portion of the meeting a board member offered a personal statement in support of transgender and nonbinary students and identified the Trevor Project as an organization that supports those youth.
The speaker said the Trevor Project analyzed data from about 60,000 young people across states that enacted anti-transgender laws and reported what the speaker described as a "72 percent increase" in past-year suicide attempts after the laws passed, with larger spikes two to three years after enactment among those 17 and younger. The speaker framed the remarks as a reason for the community to provide support and protection for vulnerable students and thanked the board for listening.
No district official provided a rebuttal during the meeting; the item was part of the public-board discussion prior to the board entering executive session.
