Queering Education Research Institute (QuERI)®️

Just released!!! New book on queer bullying from @uminnpress.bsky.social. Edited by QuERI directors Payne and Smith with contributions from an amazing group of international scholars.

QuERI, 2006-2026.

The move comes after major hospital systems in the city — NYU Langone and Mount Sinai — struck deals with the Trump administration to stop providing gender-affirming care to minors: gothamist.visitlink.me/j5ZETA

This week in NYC. Discussion of our book Queer Kids & Social Violence. Join us if you're in town!

In March, SIECUS and @guttmacher.org co-authored The Fight for Facts, a policy brief detailing the anti-abortion movement's increasing focus on the classroom.

Youth gang rape in history. We have centuries of ignoring the problem.

Even more important to focus on city & state protections where possible.

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.

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.

20 years of QuERI.

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.

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

20 years of QuERI

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.

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.

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

The erasures continue unabated. 19thnews.org/2026/08/nati... 🗃️ 🏳️‍🌈

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.

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.

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 Trump administration is limiting access to graduate education in fields like nursing, teaching, and social work and calling them “unprofessional.” 🧵

Education Matters.

Once again Republicans used committee time to attack and make life miserable for trans kids and young adults. 🧵

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*.

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

Trump administration threatens Kansas school district over trans student protections ➡️ https://bit.ly/4ws4RwF 📷 Getty

@jamellebouie.net on the Supreme Court anti-trans ruling.

Trans people continue to be second-class citizens, the Supreme Court rules. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Supreme Court Rules Title IX Means "Biological Sex" In Devastating Anti-Trans Ruling open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

Includes our new book on Queer Bullying.

🚨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.

Includes our new book on Queer Bullying.

@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...

Shepard Scalf said in an EEOC filing that a parent complained to the district that he was transgender.

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.

Gender policing is on the rise. Bullying can be understood as gender policing.

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...

@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...

NWLC: Ed Dept has “Absolutely No Basis” for Terminating Civil Agreements Protecting Trans Students

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.

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.

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.