The employment of “queer” had been a particular sticking point for administrators, whom managed it as a slur as opposed to recognizing so it may be a term reclaimed by LGBT communities. Piper N., a 15-year-old student that is pansexual another senior high school in Southern Dakota, said:

We wished to phone it a Queer directly Alliance because we desired to exceed ‘gay, ’ but they stated we couldn’t say ‘queer’ because they stated it had been a slur and individuals will be offended. 201

Whenever pupils expressed fascination with developing a GSA, and even persisted and satisfied the necessary needs, some college administrators stonewalled pupils, delaying conversations or approval until interested pupils threw in the towel or finished through the college. Jayden N., a 16-year-old boy that is gay Texas, described exactly exactly how their principal seemed to stall approving a GSA before an area LGBT activist and a supportive adult into the college system aided push the problem on their behalf: