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The Safe Schools Improvement Act and the Student Nondiscrimination Act will help make the lives of LGBT youth better
The recent tragedies of several LGBT students taking their own lives across the country have highlighted the fact that anti-LGBT bullying and harassment in schools can have a dramatic and heart-breaking effect on LGBT students, their families, and school communities. Studies over the last decade provide firm evidence of higher rates of suicide attempts in LGBT youth compared to heterosexual adolescents and young adults.
Schools can play a key role in helping to reduce the tragic consequences of bullying by having policies in place to prevent bullying and harassment, and by responding to these incidents by enforcing those rules. Such actions will help to protect all students from bullying, harassment and discrimination.
The Safe Schools Improvement Act (H.R. 2262/S. 3739) and the Student Nondiscrimination Act (H.R. 4530/S. 3390) have been introduced in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate to address these issues. In order to pass these important bills, we need as many Representatives and Senators as possible to agree to cosponsor them.
We need your help to make this happen! CALL YOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TODAY!
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