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School hate crimes targeting LGBTQ people have sharply risen in recent years, climbing fastest in states that have passed laws restricting LGBTQ student rights and education, a Washington Post analysis of FBI data finds.

As school districts in conservative parts of California enact these policies, young people speak out.

Many students consider them "forced outing" policies. And they are already creating fallout.

New policies requiring schools to notify parents if a student is gender-nonconforming are seeping into campus culture in ways some students find dangerous.

New policies requiring schools to notify parents if a student is gender-nonconforming are seeping into campus culture in ways some students find dangerous.

From fights over LGBT rights to prayer at school board meetings, Chino Valley public schools have become ground zero for the culture wars.

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyOutside the California State Capitol last month, a fitness trainer turned school board president fired up the crowd at a parental rights rally, telling them they were all fighters in “a spiritual battle” for their kids and must answer the call from God.Sonja Shaw, who was elected to the Chino Valley Unified School District board of education last November with an assist from a local megachurch and its Christian nationalist ...

Rather than spend the year planning for prom, graduation and college, LGBTQ students across Southern California are worrying about their local school boards.

Rather than spend the year planning for prom, graduation and college, LGBTQ students across Southern California are worrying about their local school boards.

Rather than spend the year planning for prom, graduation and college, LGBTQ students across Southern California are worrying about their local school boards.