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Convergent Reasoning

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Divergent Reasoning

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LGBTQ+ educators are given the same opportunities and provided a safe and inclusive environment.

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Educators have begun the attempt to include LGBTQ+ content that is found in young adult literature to begin the slow-drip method of exposing students to homosexual themes.

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Although stakeholders may be in the way of allowing LGBTQ+ educators to feel seen and heard, school administrators are paving the way to provide an inclusive environment for all of their educators on their campus.

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LGBTQ+ educators do not feel that there is enough support in them feeling they have a safe and inclusive environment equivalent to their heterosexual peers.

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LGBTQ+ educators may be worried about stakeholders such as administrators, parents, and community members, but they are also worried about how students in their classroom and on their campus will react to knowing the sexual identity of their teachers.

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In some school districts, sexual orientation is not protected from discrimination leading to a concern for educators who are openly or even “closeted” about their sexual orientation.

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LGBTQ+ students are finding internal changes as well as changes in behaviors due to the environment they are in. This has led to students either being supported or not supported by educators in educational settings.

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School culture and school climate play a big role in how LGBTQ+ students feel on campus.

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Sexuality and gender are socially and culturally constructed concepts that organize and represent how humans are seen in the world. LGBTQ+ educators find themselves tied to not being able to discuss or talk about LGBTQ+ curriculum as it is not the social normative.

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The stressor may be alleviated by resources provided to the LGBTQ+ minority member, or it may be heightened by being an “added burden” to the social status of feeling lower than a heterosexual.

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The stress of the LGBTQ+ minority member is based upon a heterosexism environment that begins to heighten the stressors and stress of the person.

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K-12 institutions strive for providing a positive and inclusive environment for all students, but is that happening for our educators who are part of the LGBTQ+ community? LGBTQ+ educators are still being overlooked and do not feel that their workplace environment, schools, district, etc., is conducive to being an inclusive workplace for them to feel welcomed and be who they are.