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The California Senate Education Committee OK’d a bill that provides crucial support for transgender students, allowing them to fully participate in all school activities, programs and facilities.

Lawyers for a transgender girl and an elementary school that required the fifth-grader to use a staff bathroom instead of the girls restroom clashed before Maine’s highest court Wednesday.

An 18-year-old high school student has been slapped with felony charges for having a relationship with a 15-year-old female fellow student.

A transgender teen running for prom king is upset that his school principal will only allow him to run for prom queen. Fellow students in York, Pa., are siding with him in the dispute.

Members of a frat from Emerson College have launched an online campaign in order to raise money for a transgender pledging member’s surgery.

A southern Missouri school district has rescinded a policy that prohibited same-sex couples from attending prom, a day after a national anti-discrimination group threatened to sue.

The University of Iowa has become the nation’s first public university to include optional questions about sexual orientation and gender identity on its application, a move hailed by advocates hoping to improve the college experience for LGBT youth.

The parents of a gay Michigan teenager said he took his own life last month because he suffered frequent bullying inside and outside of school. The high school’s superintendent, however, says staff was not informed of the bullying.

Students from a high school in CelinOhio weren’t allowed to wear pro-gay rights t-shirts. Officials said they were too political. The students claim that classmates have worn Tees with pro-life and Mitt Romney messages.

The family of a Chicago teenager is calling his murder a hate crime but as of now local police are investigating the incident only as a robbery.