The forum comes as school districts across Pennsylvania look at policies that advocates believe will harm LGBTQ+ youth.
HANOVER, Pa. — On Saturday, people came to the Guthrie Memorial Library in Hanover for a forum on LGBTQ+ discrimination.
The event, hosted by the Hanover Area Diversity Alliance, featured a broad discussion about the people in the LGBTQ+ community and the struggles they face.
“This is an important thing that the community needs to understand,” said Amanda Bonnett, the executive director of the Hanover Area Diversity Alliance. “LGBTQ people do exist in this community, but there’s a lot of stigmatisms against them.”
Across the Commonwealth, school districts have weighed in on policies that advocates believe would target LGBTQ+ youth.
In York County, the Red Lion and Southwestern school districts recently looked at bathroom restrictions for transgender students and pronoun policies.
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