Of the roughly 90,000 school board members in the U.S., 90 are openly LGBTQ+, according to a report published Wednesday by the LGBTQ Victory Institute, a partner organization of the LGBTQ Victory Fund, a political action committee working to elect more openly LGBTQ+ people to public office. LGBTQ+ people are acutely underrepresented on school boards, new research shows, accounting for less than 1 percent of board members nationwide. Nearly 50 percent of respondents in a survey distributed to all 90 known LGBTQ+ school board members said they faced verbal attacks while running for the position, and 51 percent said they were subjected to similar attacks after they were elected to the board.There are just two transgender women, two transgender men and two nonbinary people serving on school boards. Most openly LGBTQ+ school board members are cisgender, gay men and about a third are cisgender women.Openly LGBTQ+ people account for just 0.1 percent of all school board members in the U.S., despite accounting for more than 7 percent of the adult population, according to a new report from the LGBTQ Victory Institute.
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