Gender & Sexuality Resource

All Are Welcome!

Walpole Public Schools is proud to provide this Gender & Sexuality Resource to our LGBTQ+ students, their families/friends, staff, and community. The Gender & Sexuality Resource is designed to connect people in our community with reliable and meaningful LGBTQ+ resources and organizations, both locally and nationally. We hope you will find the information in here useful as you explore and seek answers to questions about the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning (LGBTQ+)* student community.

We are fortunate to live in a commonwealth and community which have secured a wide range of civil rights and social justice initiatives for the Massachusetts LGBTQ+ community; however, the process of identifying as LGBTQ+ is often a complex – and personal - challenge for students, their families and friends. These challenges can range from understanding information about gender and sexuality, to expressing concerns about safety and support, and/or to developing healthy and happy LGBTQ+ relationships.

To those who are on this journey, this resource will offer evidence that you are not alone. Many courageous individuals and families have answered these questions and met these challenges over the decades since “Stonewall,” the birth of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. Together, they have helped create laws, agencies, organizations and social groups to vigorously support LGBTQ+ students during their school years.

To that end, this resource is meant to provide knowledge, support and connection for all. This resource does not constitute WPS policies but provides online links to local and national programs and organizations available to all LGBTQ+ students, their families, allies, and teachers. It also strives to give educators the resources and tools necessary to create a warm, inclusive learning environment. We hope that this resource will enrich and strengthen the journey of Walpole’s LGBTQ+ students as they become healthy, happy and productive members of the adult LGBTQ+ community - as well as informed and active citizens of Walpole and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Again, welcome!