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After making history as the first openly transgender woman to join a Wyoming sorority, Langford watched as right-wing media misrepresented her. Now, she’s telling her story.
For University of Wyoming students, the past six months have had their campus grounds for free speech debates that have plagued many educational institutions nationwide.
A bill working its way through the Wyoming Legislature would forbid teachers from covering certain topics in kindergarten to third grade classes. The bill is touted by its supporters as a necessary check to keep classroom conversations age-appropriate, but opponents fear it will stigmatize queer youth.
In the fall of 2017, then Hot Springs High School senior Stormy Cox wrote of her home state: “In my heart I would love to stay in Wyoming … The majority of my family lives in Wyoming. It’s hard to leave all of them behind and be on my own. If I could stay in Wyoming and still pursue my dreams I would.” Her sentiments were collected as part of a project that I and Felicity Barringer, Writer In Residence at the Bill Lane Center for the American West, undertook. The goal was to understand young people’s attitudes about a future in their hometowns and in the state. We asked Cox and a...
‘Love it and leave’: The choices facing Wyoming’s youth Wyoming has long contended with a large outmigration of young people. (Illustration by Eda Uzunlar) In the fall of 2017, then Hot Springs High School senior Stormy Cox wrote of her home state: “In my heart I would love to stay in Wyoming … The majority of my family lives in Wyoming. It’s hard to leave all of them behind and be on my own. If I could stay in Wyoming and still pursue my dreams I would.” Her sentiments were collected as part of a project that I and Felicity Barringer, Writer In Residence at the Bill Lane Cen...