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data-activy-map="le-byle-article-top">By <span class="byle-name"><a href=">Jo Yurba</a></span></div></sectn><div class="article-body__ntent article-body-font--loadg"><p class="">An LGBTQ nonprof on Monday released<a href="> s annual Worst List</a> namg 180 lleg and universi as “the absolute worst, most unsafe mp for LGBTQ youth.” </p><p class="">Camp Pri, which advot for LGBTQ clivy and safety at U.S. lleg and universi, add 50 universi to the list sce last year — the most extensive update sce the list started 2015, acrdg to the anizatn.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><div id="taboolaReadMoreBelow"></div><p class="">The list clus lleg and universi that have eher received or applied for a relig exemptn to Tle IX, a feral law that protects stunts om discrimatn ferally fund schools, or have a “monstrated history of anti-LGBTQ polici, programs and practic,” acrdg to a news release.</p><p class="">At 180 schools, the list is the longt has been s six-year history. The list clus Brigham Young Universy Utah; Seattle Pacific Universy; Malone Universy Oh; and Baylor Universy Texas.</p><p class="">“The aren’t jt bad mp or the worst mp — the mp fundamentally are unsafe for LGBTQ stunts, and, as a rult, they’re fundamentally unsafe for all stunts to go to,” Shane Wdmeyer, founr and executive director of Camp Pri, said. “They promote an environment of hostily, of discrimatn, harassment, toward a group of people, and who wants — when you’re tryg to be ted — to have that type of negative learng environment?”</p><figure class="styl_leImage__yAWZ0 styl_medium__OMa6x"><picture class="styl_image__1qciH"><source media="(m-width: 1000px)" srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="Seattle Pacific Universy" height="1667" width="2500"/></picture><figptn class="ptn styl_ptn__Pe5JC"><span class="ptn__ntaer">Seattle Pacific Universy ma the list of worst lleg for gay stunts for the first time.</span><span class="ptn__source">Mat Hayward / Getty Imag file</span></figptn></figure><p class="">Wdmeyer said that part of the reason this year’s update to the list was signifint is bee of chang the Tmp admistratn ma to the Tle IX relig exemptn procs. Unr Print Barack Obama, relig schools had to subm a letter outlg why they need an exemptn to Tle IX. The Tmp admistratn changed that le so that relig schools<a href="> were tomatilly exempt</a> om Tle IX, which allowed them to ntue receivg feral funds while, for example, enforcg a le that prohibs stunts om engagg gay sex or same-sex relatnships.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">The Tmp admistratn also stopped publishg an onle list of schools that have requted an exemptn om Tle IX. Camp Pri referred to that list while creatg s Worst List.</p><p class="">Wdmeyer said the Bin admistratn has republished prev lists of schools that applied for tle IX relig exemptns, but hasn’t clarified or changed the Tmp admistratn policy undog the applitn requirement. </p><p class="">Before Bin took office, Camp Pri relied on stunt reports and news articl, Wdmeyer said. This year, the group ed the list of schools that requted exemptns to Tle IX and urt documents.</p><p class="">In 2019,<a href="> 41 mp filed an amic brief</a> Bostock v. Clayton County support of employers who argued that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 didn’t protect LGBTQ employe om discrimatn. The Supreme Court sid wh the employe.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">Wdmeyer said Camp Pri also clud the 29 relig lleg and universi<a href="> named a class actn lawsu</a> agast the Department of Edutn allegg that the relig exemptn is unnstutnal and that allows relig schools that receive feral funds to discrimate agast LGBTQ stunts.</p><p class="">“Relig anizatns and lleg were embolned durg the Tmp admistratn,” Wdmeyer, who noted that all 180 schools on the list this year are religly affiliated, said. “Bin has still yet to clarify if Tle IX exemptns are mandatory or if he has an executive orr that is gog to make them mandatory, which I feel that if a mp is gog to openly discrimate, then should be mandated that they tell stunts and that they have a Tle IX exemptn on file wh the feral ernment.”</p><p class="">The Worst List is alphabetil orr rather than rank, but some schools have appeared on more often than others.</p><p class="">David Shill, a 22-year-old junr at Brigham Young Universy Provo, Utah, said he isn’t surprised that his school is on the list aga bee “thgs haven’t changed.”</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">BYU, which is owned by the Church of J Christ of Latter-day Sats, also known as the Mormon Church, forbids same-sex datg. Though don’t specifilly mentn transgenr stunts the stunt handbook, the church unsels agast medil transn for trans people; otherwise they<a href="> face rtricted participatn</a> the church or<a href="> even exmunitn</a>.</p><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend"></div><p class="">Shill, the print of BYU Pri, which is not officially supported by or regnized by the universy, said that homophobia is “ually assumed” on mp. He mentned a vio taken Augt which a stunt fac pro-LGBTQ chalk art on BYU’s mp and<a href="> an anti-gay slur</a>. In March, when about 40 stunts l up the inic 380-foot-tall “Y” on the mounta east of mp wh rabow lights, Shill said LGBTQ stunts faced cyberbullyg.</p><p class="">“My first week back on mp I really felt like, wow I will never belong here,” Shill said. “And jt seeg straight upl beg upl on mp and like holdg hands or huggg ... that upled wh the attus of some of my profsors and classmat, jt the whole day, was hard to be here.”</p><div class="remend-tersectn-ref" data-activy-map="remend-article-body-remend"></div><p class="">A reprentative for BYU did not immediately rpond to a requt for ment.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">A number of schools are on the list for the first time, cludg Seattle Pacific Universy, a private Christian universy named the class actn lawsu agast the Department of Edutn. Affirm, a group of SPU stunts, alumni, faculty and staff dited to endg anti-LGBTQ polici and culture at the universy, began anizg the sprg rponse to the universy’s volvement two lawsus — the class actn and a su brought by a teacher April who<a href="> says he was nied a full-time job</a> bee he is gay.</p><p class="">In a statement emailed to NBC News, Affirm’s members said they are “sadned but not surprised” by SPU’s addn to the 2021 Worst List.</p><p class="">“For an stutn that advertis our muny as a place promotg diversy, equy, and cln the name of Christ’s love, this soberg ll om Camp Pri tells no uncerta terms how we have failed,” Affirm’s members said. “We mt rebuild our existg mp stctur, remove discrimatory universy polici, and foster novel spac where LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and AAPI folk are weled and celebrated for the pricels gifts they brg our muny.”</p><p class="">A reprentative for SPU cled to ment.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">Malone Universy, Canton, Oh, is also on the list for the first time.</p><p class="">This month, Karyn Collie, an associate blogy profsor at Malone, announced that she would be leavg the universy bee she’s marryg a woman next summer. She<a href="> told</a> The Canton Reposory that she was hopg she and the school uld fd a way for her to stay employed, but that she was stead asked to rign. When she was hired, she signed a set of prcipl lled the Communy Rponsibili, which prohib homosexual activy, acrdg to the Reposory.</p><p class="">Collie was a popular profsor, and the news led to backlash om stunts, cludg a s- durg a weekly worship service, the Reposory reported. </p><p class="">A reprentative for Malone has not returned a requt for ment, but Malone Print David Kg told the Reposory that Collie isn’t the first profsor to leave due to a nflict wh the universy’s Communy Rponsibili. He also said that only employe are expected to adhere to them, and that stunts are not.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">“All stunts are wele here, no matter what their story is, whether they have a fah journey or not,” Kg said.</p><p class="">But Camp Pri pots out on s Worst List that the school’s<a href="> Communy Agreement for Sexual Conduct</a>, which all members of the Malone muny m themselv to, stat that “Sex should be exclively rerved for the marriage relatnship, unrstood as a legal, lifelong mment between a hband and wife.”</p><p class="">Wdmeyer said that he hop the Bin admistratn will mandate that all mp have to apply for the Tle IX relig exemptn. “I thk that’s the bare mimum our feral ernment n do to protect the LGBTQ young people,” Wdmeyer said. “The Print says, ‘trans people, queer people,<a href="> LGBTQ people, we’ve got your back</a>.’ Well, you need to start here wh our LGBTQ young people.”</p><p class="">Many stunts, like Shill at BYU, don’t want to leave and thk their schools n bee better. He said BYU Pri is workg wh the universy to change the Honor Co so that queer stunts n date, and the group is enuragg the universy to velop a discrimatn office that stunts and faculty n go to when they experience discrimatn.</p><div class="ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer boxleAd dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxle" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[]],[[758,1],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[728,90],[360,360]]],[[0,0],[[300,250],[700,50],[5,5],[360,360]]]]" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te" data-offset-viewport="100"></div></div><p class="">The group would also like to be able to have queer activi on mp, or put rabow lights on the “Y” whout approval. “Those kd of thgs like where BYU no longer is silencg , and phg off mp,” he said. “Let e on mp and be as gay as we want to be whout havg to hi all.”</p><p class="endmark"><strong><em>Follow </em></strong><a href="><strong><em>NBC Out</em></strong></a><strong><em> on </em></strong><a href="><strong><em>Twter</em></strong></a><strong><em>, </em></strong><a href="><strong><em>Facebook</em></strong></a><strong><em> & </em></strong><a href="><strong><em>Instagram</em></strong></a></p></div><div class="expand-byle-ntributors articleByleContaer"><div class="expand-byle article-expand-byle" data-activy-map="expand-byle-article-bottom"><div class="byle-thumbnail byle-thumbnail--has-image expand-byle__thumbnail"><a href="><picture><source srcSet=" 2x, 1x"/><img loadg="lazy" src=" alt="" height="48" width="48"/></picture></a></div><span class="byle-name expand-byle__name"><a href=">Jo Yurba</a></span><span class="byle-social expand-byle__social"><a href="" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="byle-social--lk"><span class="in in-email"></span></a></span><div class="expand-byle__b-wrapper"><p class="byle-b expand-byle__b">Jo Yurba is a reporter for NBC Out.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="article-body--right-rail-ntaer"><div class="article-body__right-rail layout-grid-em grid-l-4_5-l grid-l-3_5-xl grid-l-ph-half-xl"><div class="ad article-body__right-rail--ad ad--text-alignment ad-ntaer dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="boxrail" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[[300,250],[360,360]]],[[758,1],[]],[[0,0],[]]]" data-offset="10" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="body-bottom-remend"><div class="ad ad--midrponsive ad-ntaer dn-prt"><div data-mps="te" data-slot="midrponsive" data-siz="[[[1000,1],[[700,1],[5,5]]],[[758,1],[]],[[0,0],[]]]" data-offset="300" data-reh-terval="0" data-renr-on-view="te" data-targetg="{}" data-active-tab="te"></div></div></div></div></div></article></div></div><div id="hfs-footer" class="dn-prt" data-activy-map="hfs-footer"><footer class="hfsf" ><div class="ner"><div class="logo"><a href="><svg class="peack" viewBox="578 62 67 39" xmlns=" fill="currentColor"><g fill-le="evenodd"><path d="M579.074 90.58c1.717-4.494 6.472-6.08 10.697-3.37l18.29 12.754h-22.18c-4.62 0-8.252-4.23-6.8-9.385"></path><path class="feather" d="M579.074 90.58c1.717-4.494 6.472-6.08 10.697-3.37l18.29 12.754h-22.18c-4.62 0-8.252-4.23-6.8-9.385"></path><path class="feather" d="M597.563 75.863l9.442 21.613-19.478-13.35c-4.887-3.24-3.896-8.79-1.19-11.237 3.83-3.24 9.245-2.12 11.226 2.97"></path><path class="feather" d="M610.57 70.93l-3.433 24.19-9.772-23c-2.113-5.75 2.64-9.516 5.81-9.583 3.632-.396 8.188 2.38 7.396 8.394"></path><path class="feather" d="M625.494 72.103l-9.707 23.067-3.102-20.82c-.265-3.17 1.716-3.237 2.443-3.832-.133-.463-1.124-.463-1.124-.463h-1.848c-.198-5.42 4.028-7.8 7.462-7.535 3.697.132 7.856 4.428 5.876 9.583"></path><path class="feather" d="M635.338 84.167L615.86 97.584l9.177-21.348c2.775-6.742 9.245-5.42 11.556-2.842 2.51 2.51 3.235 7.6-1.255 10.773"></path><path class="feather" d="M637.448 99.9h-22.515l18.29-12.756c4.49-2.975 9.244-.266 10.498 3.635 1.327 4.36-1.65 9.12-6.27 9.12"></path></g></svg></a></div><nav class="lks"><ul class="lks__wrap" data-l-2="14" data-l-3=15><li><a href=" target="_self">About</a></li><li><a href=" target="_self">Contact</a></li><li><a href=">Help</a></li><li><a href=">Careers</a></li><li><a href=" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ad Choic</a></li><li><a href=" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Privacy Policy</a></li><li><a href=" target="_blank" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Do Not Sell My Personal Informatn</a></li><li><a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CA Notice</a></li><li><a href=">New Terms of Service (Updated JULY 7, 2023)</a></li><li><a href=">NBC News Semap</a></li><li><a href=">Advertise</a></li><li><a href=" target="_self">Select Shoppg</a></li><li><a href=" target="_self">Select Personal Fance</a></li></ul></nav><div class="py"><p>© 2023 NBC UNIVERSAL</p><div class="brands"><a href="><svg viewBox="0 0 120 20" fill="none" xmlns=" aria-labelledby="nbc_news_logo"><tle class="nbc_news_logo">NBC News Logo