By Planned Parenthood of Arizona Education Team --- Transgender is a term that includes the many ways that people’s gender identities can be different from the sex they were assigned at birth. There are a lot of different terms transgender people use to describe themselves. For example, sometimes the word ...
By Planned Parenthood of Arizona Education Team --- If you are a middle or high school student in Arizona you are probably not getting sex education in your schools. If you are receiving sex ed, it is often abstinence-only, not fact-based, and not inclusive of all identities- specifically LGBTQ+ students. ...
By Marybeth Bock --- Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network, GLSEN (pronounced "glisten") is a national organization that was started in 1990 by a small group of teachers in Massachusetts who came together with the goal to improve an education system that too frequently allows its lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer ...
By Hannah Maine --- What does transgender mean? What it means to be transgender can be different to each person. “Transgender” can be used as an umbrella term for a group or as a term to identify an individual. Generally, the word “transgender” when referring to a person means that ...