Youth advocates share model policies with Pa. schools on LGBT identity; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 5/23/16

Michael A. Fuoco, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Youth advocates share model policies with Pa. schools on LGBT identity:

"The Pennsylvania Youth Congress, a statewide LGBT youth advocacy organization, on Friday sent a model policy for supporting transgender and gender-expansive students to the 50 largest school districts in the commonwealth.

Additionally, the PYC launched a “Dignity for All” project as an online resource for school districts in supporting transgender students. Both the online resource and the model policy are available at http://​dignityforall.payouthcongress.org.

The release of both follows by a week a letter sent by the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education to every school district in the country offering their guidance that gender identity is a protected class under Title IX.

“A school may not require transgender students to use facilities inconsistent with their gender identity or to use individual-user facilities when other students are not required to do so,” the letter said."