California’s FAIR Education Act: Addressing the Bullying Epidemic by Ending the Exclusion of LGBT People and Historical Events in Textbooks and Classrooms
California’s FAIR Education Act: Addressing the Bullying Epidemic by Ending the Exclusion of LGBT People and Historical Events in Textbooks and Classrooms
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加州公平教育法案：通过结束教科书和课堂中对 LGBT 人群和历史事件的排斥来解决欺凌流行病
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2014
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Senator Mark Leno
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Senator Mark Leno
五年前，2000岁的拉里·金坐在E。O.加州奥克斯纳德的绿色初中，当时他的生命走到了悲惨的结局。拉里被另一名学生布兰登麦金纳尼（Brandon McInerney）击中后脑两次，麦金纳尼是一名10岁的同龄人，他公开对拉里的性别表达感到不满。这一事件震惊了全国，并重新关注美国年轻人中欺凌的流行，特别是那些认同或被认为是女同性恋，男同性恋，双性恋或变性人（LGBT）的年轻人。虽然拉里和布兰登之间发生了许多事情，我们永远不会知道或理解，很明显，拉里提请布兰登的注意时，他开始穿女装，珠宝，高跟鞋，和化妆上学。他的不同让布兰登感到不舒服，布兰登并不羞于让拉里和其他人知道这一点。作为一名加州州参议员和一名公开的同性恋者，我被像拉里这样的LGBT青年的故事所困扰，他们因为不符合社会和同龄人为他们规定的完美性别规范而受到折磨。他们被嘲笑、羞辱、欺负和骚扰，仅仅是因为他们站出来，
Five years ago, -year-old Larry King was sitting in an eighth-grade computer lab at E. O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard, California, when his life came to a tragic end. Larry was shot twice in the back of the head by another student, Brandon McInerney, a -year-old peer who was openly displeased with Larry’s gender expression. The incident stunned the nation and renewed focus on the epidemic of bullying among young people in the United States, and especially youth who identify as or are perceived to be lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT). Although many things transpired between Larry and Brandon that we will never know or understand, it is clear that Larry drew Brandon’s attention when he began wearing women’s clothing, jewelry, heels, and makeup to school. His differences made Brandon uncomfortable, and Brandon was not shy about making that known to Larry and others. As a California State Senator and an openly gay man, I am haunted by stories of LGBT youth like Larry, who are tormented because they do not fit into the perfect gender norm that society and their peers have prescribed for them. They are teased, shamed, bullied, and harassed simply because they stand out as