A BILL OF RIGHTS FOR LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENDER STUDENTS
  1. The right to attend schools free of verbal and physical harassment; where education, not survival, is the priority.

  2. The right to attend schools where respect and dignity for all is a standard set by the board's of education and enforced by every school administrator.

  3. The right to have access to accurate information about themselves, free of negative judgment and delivered by adults who not only inform them, but affirm them.

  4. The right to positive role models, both in person and in the curriculum.

  5. The right to be included in all support programs that exist to help teenagers deal with the difficulties of adolescence.

  6. The right to legislators who guarantee and fight for their constitutional freedoms, rather than ones who reinforce hate and prejudice.

  7. The right to a heritage free of crippling self-hate and unchallenged discrimination.

First published in the Friends of Project 10, Inc. Summer Update, 1990. Author, Dr. Virginia Uribe

©2002 Friends of Project 10, Inc.