An op-ed in today's edition of my local newspaper,
The Boston Globe, offers a small glimmer of hope for at least a bit of change here in Massachusetts. Here's a link to the piece, which discusses the problem of bullying of school-age kids who identify as transgendered and how the suicides of some have spurred efforts to pass legislation in the state to force schools to deal with anti-LGBT bullying.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ed...ound_bullying/
My local high school (from which all three of my kids graduated) is somewhat notorious among the national anti-gay activists not only for having a principal who is openly lesbian but for its annual "ToBeGLAD Day" an all-day event (it stands for "Transgender Bisexual Gay Lesbian Awareness Day"). Parents are kept out of the school so that the homophobes cannot disrupt the event. The result has been one of the most tolerant high school environments in the country, one where my youngest daughter reports that on several occasions she witnessed BMOC jocks come to the defense of gay kids who were being harrassed by other students!