ABOUT THE RESEARCH
Data are from the 2003, 2004 and 2005 Preventing School Harassment (PSH) survey. The PSH survey was designed to study
the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning high school students and their straight allies,
and the steps schools can take to make schools safer. The PSH survey was developed by the California Safe Schools Coalition,
and administered by the Gay-Straight Alliance Network. Data from over 2,400 students were collected in schools and on the
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and transgender youth in our nation’s schools. New York: GLSEN.
Russell, S. T., Clarke, T. J., & Laub, C. (2009). Understanding School Safety and the Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, and Sexual
Orientation. (California Safe Schools Coalition Research Brief No. 10). San Francisco, CA: California Safe Schools Coalition.
orientation, and gender nonconformity.
ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression and advocate for changing
the policy if it doesn’t.
complaint about harassment even if you aren’t the target of it.
1. publicizing and enforcing anti-harassment policies,
2. providing resources, information, and support to students
3. training teachers and other staff about the multiple forms of bullying and how to
intervene in harassment,
4. measuring and monitoring bias-related harassment in their local school district, and
5. including people of color and LGBT people, and information about race, ethnicity, sexual
orientation, and gender identity in the curriculum.
opportunity to provide education and reaffirm school policy.
harassment due to race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender
related harassment and slurs are not acceptable.
identity and expression.