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Laurie Frankel. Laurie Frankel is an American novelist, essayist, and public speaker. She has written several novels including This is How it Always Is, which received generally positive reviews, despite stirring controversy of its subject matter of a child's gender transition.
A national survey conducted by GLSEN found that 75% of transgender youth feel unsafe at school, and those who are able to persevere have significantly lower GPAs and are more likely to miss school out of concern for their safety. [73] These students also reported being less likely to plan on continuing their education. [74]
Normative school transitions refer to the transitions of students from elementary school to middle school and from middle school to high school. As each transition occurs, the student generally undergoes many different changes. These changes can be anything from an increase in the size of the school, to the change in friends that one meets.
Children with persistent gender dysphoria are characterized by more extreme gender dysphoria in childhood than children with desisting gender dysphoria. [1] Some (but not all) gender variant youth will want or need to transition, which may involve social transition (changing dress, name, pronoun), and, for older youth and adolescents, medical transition (hormone therapy or surgery).
The theory is centered around changes often experienced during the transition from adolescence to adulthood. This time period takes place usually between the ages of 18 and 29. [ 18 ] The concept of emerging adulthood is new, and likely developed due to growing numbers of college attendance and other social, economic, and cultural changes that ...
IN FOCUS: The ending scarred readers, and so did the Anne Hathaway film adaptation. Now it’s back for a Netflix series. Katie Rosseinsky explores how David Nicholls’s bestselling novel ...
The goal of transitional bilingual education is to help transition a student into an English-only classroom as quickly as possible. A bilingual teacher teaches children in subjects such as math, science, and social studies in their native language so that once the transition is made to an English-only classroom, the student has the knowledge ...
Pat Sajak's daughter Maggie was on Wheel of Fortune when Pat was hospitalized in 2020. Maggie served as a guest letter-turner while Vanna White took on hosting duties in Pat's stead.