2019 Denver School Climate and Culture Symposium

LGBTQ youth are victimized and ostracized for a multitude of reasons.  When educators aren't prepared for questions related to LGBTQ youth their response of silence furthers isolation of these students.  The taboo reinforces misconceptions of biology and prejudices against our LGBTQ students.   We have the ability to help these students learn they are biologically natural.  During the workshop we will discuss inheritance patterns of orientation and gender.  You will learn more engaging ways to teach inheritance concepts including crossing over, non-disjuncture, trisomy, polygenic traits, and gene expression.  It is time to shatter the gender binary created by Mendel's model of gender.  We are more interesting than pea plants.