@article{ref1,
title="Safe and supportive schools for LGBT youth: addressing educational inequities through inclusive policies and practices",
journal="Journal of school psychology",
year="2019",
author="Day, Jack K. and Ioverno, Salvatore and Russell, Stephen T.",
volume="74",
number="",
pages="29-43",
abstract="Inclusive policies that attend to sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) are associated with more supportive school environments for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth. We use the 2013-2015 California Healthy Kids Survey (n = 113,148) matched with principal reports of school policies from the 2014 California School Health Profiles to examine differential effects of SOGI-focused policies for LGB and transgender youth. SOGI-focused policies had a direct association with less truancy, and moderated the association between sexual orientation/gender identity and other school outcomes. SOGI-focused policies were associated with more positive experiences and perceptions of school climate for LGB youth and, to a lesser extent, transgender youth. <br><br>FINDINGS underscore the importance of inclusive policies, especially those that address the unique needs of transgender students.<br><br>Copyright © 2019. Published by Elsevier Ltd.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-4405",
doi="10.1016/j.jsp.2019.05.007",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsp.2019.05.007"
}