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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️

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Bridging the gaps between research, policy, and practice in support of LGBTQ students and families in K-12 schools. Sociology in action. Qualitative Research. Founded 2006. Directors: Elizabethe Payne, PhD & Melissa J. Smith, PhD.

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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️ @queeringedu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Even more important to focus on city & state protections where possible.
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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️ @queeringedu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Reframing bullying has been key in our scholarship & public policy work for over 15 yrs. These ideas anchor our new book "Queer Kids & Social Violence" @uminnpress.bsky.social. Book talk w @paisleycurrah.com and @ecpayne.bsky.social at @bgsqd.bsky.social Oct7th. Bullying is political.
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Soraya Chemaly @sorayachemaly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cornell, LSU, the Burnerverse, Clavicular…just one week. Men are putting their impunity and cruelty on display so brazenly. Humiliating/punishing women has always gone on, but now rape is networked, scalable, monetized. Our systems aren’t failing, tho, they’re doing what they are designed to do.
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33. A Long Read About Living in a World Where Men Publicly Bond over Women’s Humiliation and Pain
From the Burnerverse to Cornell to Clavicular, our society is all too happy to shift the cost and burden of sexual violence and male onto victims to protect men
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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️ @queeringedu.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
20 years of QuERI.
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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️ @queeringedu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We circulated these years ago. They were quotes from publications, or things we frequently said in talks, pasted over artwork kids in our QuERI in-schools arts programs had done. For our 20th anniversary, we are resurrecting them, adding a few more, and posting one a week.
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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️ @queeringedu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Join us for a Book Talk in conversation with Paisley Currah. The work of anti-bullying is not exclusive to educational contexts but is part of the broader address of social inequalities experienced by gender & sexual minority people. @paisleycurrah.com @uminnpress.bsky.social @ecpayne.bsky.social
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Queer Kids and Social Violence with Elizabethe Payne and Paisley Currah
Join us for a reading and conversation with Elizabethe Payne, editor of the new book Queer Kids and Social Violence: The Limits of Bullying.
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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️ @queeringedu.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
20 years of QuERI
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it reached an “agreement” with Mount Sinai Health System in which it will “cease providing” gender-affirming medical care to minors and dedicate $2 million to providing care to those “suffering harmful consequences” of such care.
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Justice Department Secures Agreement with Mount Sinai to End Pediatric "Gender-Affirming Care"
Another result of the Department's nationwide investigation into hospitals performing sex-rejecting procedures on minors
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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️ @queeringedu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Trans, nonbinary students miss school over safety concerns, report says
More than half of these students experienced one negative event, such as verbal harassment, in the last year, Glisten and Trevor Project find.
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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️ @queeringedu.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
QuERI was founded September 2006. Shockingly, this is our 20th anniversary. We are grateful to all the graduate student researchers, fellows, interns, PD trainers, artists, educators, funders, board members, legislators, & kids who have been a part of these 20 years.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Once again, let me toast Matty Y, who tweeted once that K-12 schools could avoid the culture wars if they taught only math and reading.
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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️ @queeringedu.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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US tells schools not to alter discipline policies to reduce racial disparities
The U.S. Education Department ​has issued guidance urging schools to stop what it calls "racial balancing" ‌in student discipline policies, prompting concerns that the Trump administration is making i...
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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
www.reuters.com/legal/govern... US District Judge Lynn Winmill in Boise said ‌in an 81-page ruling issued late on Thursday that the right to a health-preserving abortion is protected by the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. #Abortion
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Idaho must allow abortions to preserve women's health, US judge rules
A U.S. judge has ruled that Idaho's near-total abortion ban is unconstitutional because it provides exceptions when abortions are ​life-saving and not for broader risks to pregnant women's health.
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Wendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The erasures continue unabated. 19thnews.org/2026/08/nati... 🗃️ 🏳️‍🌈
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National park signs on women and LGBTQ+ history are disappearing. Librarians are preserving the record
The revisions have scrubbed or softened accounts of violence, slavery, activism and lived experiences, raising questions about whose stories the government considers worth telling.
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The Advocate @advocate.com · 04/08/2026
Advocates for both cis and trans girls call foul on a new right-wing proposal that would force school-age female athletes to undergo invasive physical exams to "prove" their gender.
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The Advocate @advocate.com · 05/08/2026
The lawsuit says King George County officials allowed students to skin squirrels in another group and told LGBTQ+ students to disguise their gay-straight alliance as a “Kindness Club,” before blocking it altogether.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
The Campaign to Force Genital Exams on Girl Athletes Soon Washington State could require sex-verification tests for those playing sports in schools.
Portrait of Andrea González-Ramírez
By Andrea González-Ramírez, a senior writer for The Cut who covers systems of power. Those physicals, Maria explains, are usually perfunctory: “Like, Are you walking normally? Are you lightheaded? I have never had to take any clothes off. I’ve never felt uncomfortable or violated.” If IL26-638 were to pass and Maria were still in school, she says she would likely drop out of her team. (We’re withholding Maria’s real name to protect her privacy.) “I honestly don’t know if I would be able to do these tests,” she adds. “It would also make me question, If I do it, are all my teammates going to too? Or would I just play with the three or four girls who are willing to or have access to do it?”
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Suzanne Bonamici @repbonamici.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The Trump administration is limiting access to graduate education in fields like nursing, teaching, and social work and calling them “unprofessional.” 🧵
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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️ @queeringedu.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Education Matters.
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Suzanne Bonamici @repbonamici.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Once again Republicans used committee time to attack and make life miserable for trans kids and young adults. 🧵
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 13/07/2026
This is huge! The Trump administration is abandoning its plan to withhold Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide gender affirming care to trans youth under 19. www.npr.org/2026/07/13/n...
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Trump's HHS abandons threat to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding over trans care
NPR has learned that the Department of Health and Human Services will not be finalizing its most aggressive attempt to end gender-affirming care for youth nationally.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/07/2026
The thing is, doing sports like Norway (focused on fun, companionship, team spirit) rather than the US (focused on intensity, suffering, competition, which individual is "best") isn't just healthier & more pro-social, it produces *better athletes*.
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A Recent Supreme Court Opinion Completely Misunderstands the Point of Sports. One World Cup Superstar Is the Corrective.
We’re fundamentally misunderstanding the point of sports.
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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️ @queeringedu.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
As rights new and old are under threat, let's educate youth and each other about what we've gained and commit to standing together for everyone's civil rights. @250to250.bsky.social
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/07/2026
In a 6-5 en banc decision on partisan lines, the 7th Circuit dissolved the injunction against the Florida Attorney General who brought a baseless lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics over their clinical guidelines on gender affirming care. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Florida can pursue lawsuit against group over trans youth care, US court rules
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday cleared the way for Florida's Republican attorney general to pursue claims that the American Academy of Pediatrics misled the public ​about the safety and effectivene...
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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Trump administration threatens Kansas school district over trans student protections ➡️ bit.ly/4ws4RwF 📷 Getty
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Elizabethe Payne Ph.D. @ecpayne.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
@jamellebouie.net on the Supreme Court anti-trans ruling.
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Jamelle Bouie on Instagram: "On the Supreme Court’s anti-trans ruling in West Virginia v. BPJ and its overall pro-cruelty jurisprudence."
332 likes, 7 comments - jbouie on July 3, 2026: "On the Supreme Court’s anti-trans ruling in West Virginia v. BPJ and its overall pro-cruelty jurisprudence.".
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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Trans people continue to be second-class citizens, the Supreme Court rules. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
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States can ban transgender women and girls from sports, according to U.S. Supreme Court
The decision hands Republican-led states a major victory in their campaign to restrict transgender students’ participation in school sports.
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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️ @queeringedu.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Supreme Court Rules Title IX Means "Biological Sex" In Devastating Anti-Trans Ruling open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
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Supreme Court Rules Title IX Means "Biological Sex" In Devastating Anti-Trans Ruling
The ruling will likely give the Trump administration more ammunition to go after colleges and schools across the country.
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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️ @queeringedu.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Includes our new book on Queer Bullying.
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Congressional Equality Caucus @equality.house.gov · 25/06/2026
🚨BAD AMENDMENT 🚨 Once again, the GOP is trying to add anti-trans language to a bipartisan bill that was originally not focused on the LGBTQI+ community. This time, it's to H.R. 2555, a bill relating to fraternities & sororities. We urge the Committee to REJECT this amendment.
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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️ @queeringedu.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️ @queeringedu.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Includes our new book on Queer Bullying.
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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️ @queeringedu.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
@uminnpress.bsky.social is offering 30% their Pride Collection for Pride month. This includes our new book Queer Kids and Social Violence: The Limits of Bullying. www.upress.umn.edu/collection-p...
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The Advocate @advocate.com · 20/06/2026
Shepard Scalf said in an EEOC filing that a parent complained to the district that he was transgender.
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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️ @queeringedu.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
A colorful bulletin board made by the student GSA is categorized as "grooming" by a parent in a Massachusetts school district. The hostilities are nation-wide, not only in the south and midwest.
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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️ @queeringedu.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Gender policing is on the rise. Bullying can be understood as gender policing.
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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Nonfiction and fiction, stories and histories so crucial to why we honor and celebrate Pride. Browse the Pride Month collection, now 30% off: www.upress.umn.edu/collection-p...
Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet book covers displayed against drippy rainbow background with text below: Collection: Pride Month. Covers featured for Ungendering Menstruation; Skating Away from the Binary; Trans Care; Making Love with the Land; Beyond Personhood; Nonbinary Jane Austen.
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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️ @queeringedu.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
@uminnpress.bsky.social is offering 30% their Pride Collection for Pride month. This includes our new book Queer Kids and Social Violence: The Limits of Bullying. www.upress.umn.edu/collection-p...
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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️ @queeringedu.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
NWLC: Ed Dept has “Absolutely No Basis” for Terminating Civil Agreements Protecting Trans Students
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NWLC: Ed Dept has “Absolutely No Basis” for Terminating Civil Agreements Protecting Trans Students - National Women's Law Center
Washington D.C. — The Department of Education announced today it would rescind Title IX resolution agreements that protect students from harassment, discrimination, and hostile school environments. Th...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/06/2026
An intersex teacher has been fired in Florida, allegedly, after parents falsely believed he was transgender. Florida has some of the most oppressive laws targeting LGBTQ+ educators in the country. The ACLU has filed a complaint. The latest from our staff journalist, S. Baum.
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Intersex Teacher Fired in Florida After Parent Falsely Claims He Is Trans, ACLU Says
“It became clear to me that being fired had nothing to do with my qualifications or teaching—it was about who I am.”
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/06/2026
It's so heartbreaking to see a 14 year old child have to write a piece detailing how abusive adults have been to them over being themselves. They got horrifying threats. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I’m a 14-year-old trans athlete. No one should face the vicious attacks I have faced | Lina Haaga
People understand gender differently, and I was taught to respect all ideas. But the vitriol I recently experienced was not a healthy debate
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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️ @queeringedu.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Reminder: Only one-twentieth of 1% of all US youth are accessing gender affirming care. Among youth with a trans-related diagnosis, only 5% are on puberty blockers, and 11% on hormone therapy. The money and energy spent on these attacks is about much more than 1/20th of 1% of youth.
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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️ @queeringedu.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This is a resource for teacher's to learn about LGBTQ history, and then decide what they can include as the school year ends during Pride month.
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Podcast Brings LGBTQ+ Living History Into the Classroom | NEA
When students hear the voices of people who lived through history, something shifts.
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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
SCOOP: A year ago, the Trump administration ended the "press 3" option to direct suicidal LGBTQ+ young people to specialized counselors when they call 988. Now HHS is trying to reverse course, but Trump’s anti-trans executive order is getting in the way. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
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Trump administration considers restoring LGBTQ+ youth crisis line it eliminated last year
They are trying to figure out how to reconnect LGBTQ+ youth with specialized suicide counselors while complying with policies that deny recognition of trans people.
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Elizabethe Payne Ph.D. @ecpayne.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
As the school year ends, it’s important we assess the facts. What is, and is not, being done in support of LGBTQ students. The answer is far less than rhetoric, from both sides, would lead you to believe.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 08/06/2026
I'm working on a story on this as well, but the takeaway out of this is that Mamdani's direct-care clinic will apparently ban trans youth from getting care, will only provide it to adults. This is because of fear of loss of federal funding. This is DIRECTLY the capitulation reason NYU/Sinai gave.
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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️ @queeringedu.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Our best chance of improving education policy for all students for the foreseeable future is at the state level.
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‘You Are Not Alone’: Minnesota mandates mental health education for all students
Minnesota students will soon see new mental health lessons in their classrooms.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/06/2026
The Cleveland Clinic has caved to the extortion by DOJ and settled with them over their provision of gender affirming care for trans youth. They're paying a fine of $308k. Following Texas Children's, they also agreed to create a "detransition clinic."
A screenshot of a text announcement with a bold headline stating, "Cleveland Clinic Foundation follows Texas Children’s Hospital in reaching agreement with the Department of Justice to provide detransition care and not perform sex-rejecting procedures on minors." The body paragraph details a Department of Justice resolution stating the Cleveland Clinic agreed with the DOJ and Ohio Attorney General to a decades-long commitment to stop performing these procedures—including puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones—on minors. It also notes the clinic will pay a monetary penalty and dedicate millions to provide medical care for "detransitioners."
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Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️ @queeringedu.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We are grateful for all his encouragement and support over the years. May we carry his kindness forward.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 03/06/2026
1. Governor Jared Polis has signed a new conversion therapy ban, defying the Supreme Court. It uses the same mechanism Texas used to get around Roe v. Wade: private lawsuits. The law goes into effect on July 1st. www.erininthemorning.com/p/colorado-g...
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Colorado Gov. Polis Signs New Conversion Therapy Ban, Defying Supreme Court
The law uses a private right of action to bypass a recent SCOTUS ruling allowing conversion therapy.
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