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Don’T Ignore My Voice: A Call To Action By And For Gender-Expansive Youth, Sam Hoyo
Don’T Ignore My Voice: A Call To Action By And For Gender-Expansive Youth, Sam Hoyo
Graduate Doctoral Dissertations
Gender-expansive youth are regularly discriminated against because they do not fit into the socially constructed gender binaries of the schools they attend. Nor, typically, do they have a general sense of personal safety, often feeling socially and academically excluded from their dominant heteronormative school culture. This youth participatory action research mixed method study advocates for the academic success of gender-expansive youth by documenting how gender expansive young people embody damaging educational experiences and to what extent these experiences can also lead to solidarity, resilience, and perseverance. The research findings include that gender expansive youth feel tolerated but not supported by …