This June, the Human Rights Campaign declared a state of emergency for LGBTQ+ people for the first time in the organization’s 40-year history. And unfortunately, students are not immune to the dangerous anti-queer assaults, legislatively or physically.

Because of the seriousness of these attacks, we've published a Know Your Rights guide on LGBTQ+ students' rights on gender, dress codes, self-expression and more.

On this episode you'll hear from Carlos Childs, Regional Community Organizer at the ACLU of Maryland on our updated LGBTQ+ Know Your Rights materials so students are fully aware of their right to be themselves in school.

A full transcript of this episode is available at: aclu-md.org/en/publications/lgbtq-students-have-right-be-themselves-maryland-public-schools#Transcript

Learn more and download your guide here: aclu-md.org/en/know-your-rights/lgbtq-students-rights

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