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Vanita Gupta

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Head of Civil Rights Division, Justice Department

Helping Schools Ensure the Civil Rights of Transgender Students

Jun 29, 2016 By: Catherine E. Lahmon, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education and Vanita Gupta, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Head of Civil Rights Division, Justice Department
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When Landon - a high school student in Massachusetts - entered his freshman year, he had already been in and out of the hospital for multiple suicide attemp