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Emerson College Informs Students and Staff About Skoliosexual, Heteroflexible, and Sapiosexual With ‘Glossary of LGBTQIA+ Terms’

Do you know what skoliosexual means? Emerson College provides its students and staff with a resource to teach them what the terms skoliosexual, heteroflexible, panromantic, queerplatonic, and sapiosexual mean, among others.

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Old Rochester Using Genderbread Person To Teach Students There Are Infinite Genders

Gender exists on a spectrum and there are more than two genders, a curriculum at Old Rochester Regional High School says. The 10th-grade health curriculum at Old Rochester uses the genderbread person in its curriculum to teach this claim as fact, as opposed to the common understanding that there are

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Poll: Voters Think Schools Should Inform Parents About Pronoun and Gender Identity Changes

By Casey Harper The Center Square

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Healey Administration Recommends Public Colleges In Massachusetts Join Abortion Provider Trade Association

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health is recommending public colleges and universities join a national trade association for abortion providers. It's one of the suggestions the state agency made in a 47-page blueprint made public Wednesday that is designed to help public schools of higher learning "to

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Boys Playing Girls’ Field Hockey Have More Than Doubled In Massachusetts Since 2016

Boys playing on girls' high school field hockey is becoming more common in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. From fall 2016 to fall 2022, the number of boys playing on these teams in the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association more than doubled, data provided to NewBostonPost from the MIAA late last

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Boy Helps Somerset-Berkley Girls’ Field Hockey Team To Undefeated Regular Season

A boy helped the Somerset-Berkley High School girls' field hockey team to an undefeated regular season this year. Somerset-Berkeley capped off its regular season at 17-0-1 last week, and freshman Ryan Crook played a role in the team's success.

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Springfield College Tells Students To Avoid Terms Like ‘Mother’, ‘Father’, ‘Son’, and ‘Daughter’

Springfield College in Massachusetts is telling students not to use words like "mother" and "father" in order to be more inclusive. The college put these suggestions on its "Gender Pronouns" web landing page. It tells students that using such language supports s"gender-inclusive

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Maine Transgender Cross Country Runner Wins Girls’ Class C Regional Meet

One of the best high girls' cross country runners in Maine is a male. Soren Stark-Chessa, a sophomore at Maine Coast Waldorf School, recently won the Southern Maine Class C Regional meet. Stark-Chessa came in first place out of 83 competitors at the October 20 meet, according to Athletic.