Dear John,

As we move into a new Presidential administration that has targeted our community with hate and division, the stakes are higher than ever for LGBTQ+ youth.

Proposed agendas like Project 2025 threaten to dismantle public education, strip civil rights protections, and undermine safe, inclusive learning environments nationwide.

Here’s what’s at stake:

1. Dismantling Public Education:
- Project 2025 outlines plans to divert public funding and resources away from public schools, exacerbating educational inequalities and reducing safe, inclusive options for marginalized students.

2. Undermining Civil Rights Protections:
- By redefining “sex” solely as biological sex assigned at birth, and moving the Office of Civil Rights under the Department of Justice, this plan dismantles complaint processes, leaving students vulnerable to unchecked discrimination.

3. Eroding Safe Learning Environments:
- Roll Back of LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Title IX
- Removal of Federal Authority to Investigate Discrimination, leaving students vulnerable to unchecked discrimination and harassment based on sex, race, ethnicity, religion, or disability.

Imposing Parental Control Over School Policies:
- It calls for allowing parents to sue schools and prioritizes parental control over evidence-based educational policies, leading to increased censorship and curriculum restrictions.

These harmful policies would have devastating effects. When students do not feel safe at school, they report lower academic performance, higher absenteeism, a reduced sense of belonging, and negative mental health outcomes.

Fill out our Action Alert to push Congress to protect LGBTQ+ students in schools.

We need to move forward with clarity and with power, into a future that includes all of us.

We are in a daunting moment – at the threshold of a time that will require of us what no other time has in our collective, living memory.

Rest assured: GLSEN understands the assignment. We will never stop supporting every single LGBTQ+ young person in US schools, specifically those most targeted by the hateful agenda outlined in Project 2025.

GLSEN is more vital now than ever before and we hope we can count on your support.

Melanie Willingham-Jaggers
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Executive Director

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