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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Nation's fourth-largest school district adds gender identity protections

Steve Rothaus' Gay South Florida

Equality Florida: Nation's fourth-largest school district adds gender identity protections

From Equality Florida Blog:

Miami-Dade School District, the fourth largest in the nation, has added gender identity to their harassment and anti-bullying policy.

Equality Florida along with and members of our Miami-Dade Safe Schools Coalition have worked for more than a decade to expand these vital protections and Miami remained one of the few large Florida cities without such a policy, until now.

With this latest victory, 1.55 million students representing



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