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Transgender Youth Health and Joy: A Model of Evidence-Based School District Policy Change to Support Transgender and
Sonja Mackenzie1, Neha Mann1, October Hertenstein1
1Sonja Mackenzie is with the Department of Public Health at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA. Neha Mann was a student in the Department of Public Health at Santa Clara University at the time of this project. October Hertenstein was a high school student and student activist in Northern California at the time of this project.
Abstract:
There are 1000 antitransgender bills across the United States, more than one quarter of which target educational settings. School districts are an increasingly critical policy domain through which transgender and nonbinary youth health is harmed and can be protected. Trans-led resistance, including activism and advocacy, has been found to lead to improved health. This case study describes one California school district's policy advocacy process as a model for building transgender youth health through a participatory process that, in itself, has supported transgender joy. (Am J Public Health. 2026;116(2):210-213. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308264).
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