{"id":63444,"date":"2022-06-16T00:48:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T04:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=63444"},"modified":"2022-06-16T00:48:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T04:48:03","slug":"legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal fights persist over policies that require teachers to refer to trans students by their chosen pronouns"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

In Tennessee, a\u00a0proposed law<\/a>\u00a0would let public school teachers refuse to call transgender students by the pronouns they use for themselves.<\/p>\n

At Shawnee State University \u2013 a public university in Ohio \u2013 a professor\u00a0got paid US$400,000<\/a>\u00a0to settle a lawsuit that he filed against the school after being disciplined for refusing to refer to a trans woman student as \u201cshe\u201d or \u201cher.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Loudoun County, Virginia, a public school teacher was suspended for objecting to the use of trans students\u2019 pronouns, but the state\u2019s Supreme Court\u00a0ordered his reinstatement<\/a>\u00a0while the case was pending. As in the Shawnee State professor case, the school district\u00a0chose to settle<\/a>. It also agreed to remove the disciplinary action from the teacher\u2019s file.<\/p>\n

As a researcher who focuses on\u00a0the experiences of trans college students<\/a>, I see all three cases as part of a disquieting trend: The right of trans students to be free from discrimination is tenuous at best and under\u00a0constant legal attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In many ways, the legal attacks are coordinated. The Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal group, is\u00a0behind much of the anti-trans legislation in the U.S.<\/a>\u00a0The organization represented the Shawnee State professor and the Virginia schoolteacher in their lawsuits. It is also\u00a0backing other teachers in similar lawsuits<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At greater risk<\/strong><\/h4>\n

For people on the sidelines, legal fights over the rights of trans students may seem like just one of several contemporary cultural battles or polarizing political debates. But for trans students, the right to be respected and recognized the way they see themselves is a matter of quality of life and \u2013 in some cases \u2013 a matter of life and death.<\/p>\n

Research has\u00a0consistently shown<\/a>\u00a0that trans youths have higher rates of mental health challenges \u2013 including depression, anxiety and risk of suicide \u2013 than their nontrans peers. This is because of the stress they experience as a result of prejudice and discrimination.<\/p>\n

A 2021 survey by the\u00a0Trevor Project<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 a nonprofit organization that conducts suicide prevention and crisis intervention for LGBTQ young people \u2013 provides additional insight. It found that if trans and nonbinary youths had been discriminated against in the past year because of their gender identity, they were\u00a0twice as likely to attempt suicide<\/a>\u00a0as those who did not report discrimination.<\/p>\n

The survey also indicated that the more a young person\u2019s pronouns were not respected, the greater the suicide risk.<\/p>\n

Thus, regardless of what state or federal law or the courts may say about whether educators must refer to students by the pronouns they use for themselves, there is strong evidence that doing so \u2013 or not \u2013 can drastically affect students\u2019 mental health.<\/p>\n

Recognition and rights<\/strong><\/h4>\n

At the same time, many K-12 school districts, colleges and universities, states and the federal government do enable trans students to be recognized the way they see themselves.<\/p>\n

For example, at the college level, I have found that more than 200 colleges and universities\u00a0enable students to indicate their pronouns<\/a>\u00a0in the schools\u2019 student information systems. This includes the state university systems in Minnesota, New York and Wisconsin. Students\u2019 pronouns then appear on course rosters and sometimes on other administrative records. At the University of Minnesota, the\u00a0policy states<\/a>\u00a0that university members are \u201cexpected to use the names, gender identities, and pronouns specified to them by other University members, except as legally required.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the state level,\u00a019 states<\/a>\u00a0have guidelines for trans inclusion in K-12 public schools. These policies call for trans students to be referred to by the pronouns they use for themselves. For example, the\u00a0Massachusetts policy<\/a>\u00a0states that \u201cschool personnel should use the student\u2019s chosen name and pronouns appropriate to a student\u2019s gender identity, regardless of the student\u2019s assigned birth sex.\u201d However, none of the policies I have seen actually spells out what will happen if a teacher or professor refuses to respect a trans person\u2019s pronouns.<\/p>\n

Political shifts<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The status of trans student rights is subject to change based on which party is in the White House, controls state legislatures and appoints judges to state and federal courts.<\/p>\n

The Alliance Defending Freedom, for instance, is seeking to challenge a\u00a0Virginia law<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 passed after Democrats gained control of the Virginia General Assembly in 2020 \u2013 that requires state school boards to protect the rights of trans students, including allowing students to \u201cassert a name and gender pronouns that reflect their gender identity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The legal status of rights for trans students is constantly changing at the federal level, as shown by how the current and previous two administrations have interpreted\u00a0Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972<\/a>. This is the federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in any education program or activity that receives federal funding.<\/p>\n

The Obama administration considered anti-trans discrimination to fall under the definition of \u201csex\u201d in Title IX. For that reason, the Obama administration\u00a0issued guidance<\/a>\u00a0in 2016 for schools to protect the rights of trans students. A central provision of this guidance was that \u201ca school must treat students consistent with their gender identity.\u201d This included using the pronouns that students indicate for their identity.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration, however,\u00a0rescinded the guidance<\/a>\u00a0soon after taking office in 2017. The Trump administration argued that the law\u2019s use of \u201csex discrimination\u201d was limited to discrimination based on \u201cbiological sex,\u201d not gender identity.<\/p>\n

Then, at the start of his administration in 2021, President Joe Biden restored the previous understanding of Title IX through an\u00a0executive order<\/a>. It stated that trans people were covered under the prohibition of sex discrimination in Title IX and other federal laws.<\/p>\n

A matter of equal protection<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The Biden administration rooted its argument on the\u00a0equal protection<\/a>\u00a0clause of the Constitution. It also based its position on a\u00a02020 Supreme Court decision<\/a>\u00a0that involved anti-LGBT job discrimination.<\/p>\n

That Supreme Court ruling is\u00a0Bostock v. Clayton County<\/a>. It held that the ban on \u201csex discrimination\u201d in federal employment law \u2013 known as\u00a0Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 applied to discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation.<\/p>\n

The Biden administration contends that if \u201csex discrimination\u201d in one federal law includes anti-LGBT discrimination, then all federal laws with similar language must be interpreted the same way. From this standpoint, discrimination against trans students, which includes not respecting how they identify their gender, is a violation of Title IX. Violations of Title IX could\u00a0lead to a loss of federal funding<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Based on all the political shifts, proposed laws and lawsuits about whether educators must refer to trans students by the pronouns of their choice, it is clear the issue will be a matter of legal controversy for the foreseeable future. A key question is how much harm trans students must endure while society debates whether they have the legal right to be recognized by the pronouns they use for themselves.<\/p>\n

Author Bio:<\/strong> Genny Beemyn is Director, Stonewall Center at UMass Amherst<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Tennessee, a\u00a0proposed law\u00a0would let public school teachers refuse to call transgender students by the pronouns they use for themselves. At Shawnee State University \u2013 a public university in Ohio \u2013 a professor\u00a0got paid US$400,000\u00a0to settle a lawsuit that he filed against the school after being disciplined for refusing to refer to a trans woman […]\n… learn more→<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[429086],"coauthors":[11733],"class_list":["post-63444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higher-education","tag-transgender-students"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nLegal fights persist over policies that require teachers to refer to trans students by their chosen pronouns - World leading higher education information and services<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\/\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Legal fights persist over policies that require teachers to refer to trans students by their chosen pronouns - World leading higher education information and services\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In Tennessee, a\u00a0proposed law\u00a0would let public school teachers refuse to call transgender students by the pronouns they use for themselves. At Shawnee State University \u2013 a public university in Ohio \u2013 a professor\u00a0got paid US$400,000\u00a0to settle a lawsuit that he filed against the school after being disciplined for refusing to refer to a trans woman […]\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\/\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"World leading higher education information and services\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-06-16T04:48:03+00:00\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/transbathroom.jpg\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kevin\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kevin\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Kevin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/42c1c1d5ff7ffbdf0bd50ed94c6ae6ee\"},\"headline\":\"Legal fights persist over policies that require teachers to refer to trans students by their chosen pronouns\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-16T04:48:03+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":1157,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/06\\\/transbathroom.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"transgender students\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Higher Education\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\\\/\",\"name\":\"Legal fights persist over policies that require teachers to refer to trans students by their chosen pronouns - World leading higher education information and services\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/06\\\/transbathroom.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-16T04:48:03+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/42c1c1d5ff7ffbdf0bd50ed94c6ae6ee\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/06\\\/transbathroom.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2022\\\/06\\\/transbathroom.jpg\",\"width\":680,\"height\":382},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Legal fights persist over policies that require teachers to refer to trans students by their chosen pronouns\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/\",\"name\":\"World leading higher education information and services\",\"description\":\"Global Higher Education Jobs, University jobs, Lecturer & tenure jobs.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/42c1c1d5ff7ffbdf0bd50ed94c6ae6ee\",\"name\":\"Kevin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/1e8d491a5f9b9bf3db67c9e46abbba7bb06b26b458bd5025c55e0a4b9b60ea8a?s=96&d=mm&r=g8ba4c352a279c450aa9435d770c1ebf4\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/1e8d491a5f9b9bf3db67c9e46abbba7bb06b26b458bd5025c55e0a4b9b60ea8a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/1e8d491a5f9b9bf3db67c9e46abbba7bb06b26b458bd5025c55e0a4b9b60ea8a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Kevin\"},\"description\":\"Kevin is founder of the world.edu project. The past 28 years have been involved in publishing to the education sector in print and the internet. Kevin has a degree in Education and has a many years experience in developing companies and projects.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/world.edu\\\/author\\\/kevin\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Legal fights persist over policies that require teachers to refer to trans students by their chosen pronouns - World leading higher education information and services","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/world.edu\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Legal fights persist over policies that require teachers to refer to trans students by their chosen pronouns - World leading higher education information and services","og_description":"In Tennessee, a\u00a0proposed law\u00a0would let public school teachers refuse to call transgender students by the pronouns they use for themselves. At Shawnee State University \u2013 a public university in Ohio \u2013 a professor\u00a0got paid US$400,000\u00a0to settle a lawsuit that he filed against the school after being disciplined for refusing to refer to a trans woman […]","og_url":"https:\/\/world.edu\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\/","og_site_name":"World leading higher education information and services","article_published_time":"2022-06-16T04:48:03+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/transbathroom.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Kevin","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Kevin","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\/"},"author":{"name":"Kevin","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/#\/schema\/person\/42c1c1d5ff7ffbdf0bd50ed94c6ae6ee"},"headline":"Legal fights persist over policies that require teachers to refer to trans students by their chosen pronouns","datePublished":"2022-06-16T04:48:03+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\/"},"wordCount":1157,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/transbathroom.jpg","keywords":["transgender students"],"articleSection":["Higher Education"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\/","url":"https:\/\/world.edu\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\/","name":"Legal fights persist over policies that require teachers to refer to trans students by their chosen pronouns - World leading higher education information and services","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/transbathroom.jpg","datePublished":"2022-06-16T04:48:03+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/#\/schema\/person\/42c1c1d5ff7ffbdf0bd50ed94c6ae6ee"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/world.edu\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/transbathroom.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/transbathroom.jpg","width":680,"height":382},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/legal-fights-persist-over-policies-that-require-teachers-to-refer-to-trans-students-by-their-chosen-pronouns\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/world.edu\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Legal fights persist over policies that require teachers to refer to trans students by their chosen pronouns"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/#website","url":"https:\/\/world.edu\/","name":"World leading higher education information and services","description":"Global Higher Education Jobs, University jobs, Lecturer & tenure jobs.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/world.edu\/#\/schema\/person\/42c1c1d5ff7ffbdf0bd50ed94c6ae6ee","name":"Kevin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e8d491a5f9b9bf3db67c9e46abbba7bb06b26b458bd5025c55e0a4b9b60ea8a?s=96&d=mm&r=g8ba4c352a279c450aa9435d770c1ebf4","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e8d491a5f9b9bf3db67c9e46abbba7bb06b26b458bd5025c55e0a4b9b60ea8a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e8d491a5f9b9bf3db67c9e46abbba7bb06b26b458bd5025c55e0a4b9b60ea8a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Kevin"},"description":"Kevin is founder of the world.edu project. The past 28 years have been involved in publishing to the education sector in print and the internet. Kevin has a degree in Education and has a many years experience in developing companies and projects.","sameAs":["https:\/\/world.edu"],"url":"https:\/\/world.edu\/author\/kevin\/"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63446,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63444\/revisions\/63446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63444"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=63444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}