Whereas young people, teachers, school staff, families, and communities must be free of transphobia, homophobia, racism, sexism, and ableism in elementary and secondary schools; Whereas elementary and secondary schools must be safe and inclusive learning environments that affirm LGBTQI+ young people, especially those who are transgender, nonbinary, intersex, Black, Indigenous, people of color, people with disabilities, and from all communities that experience marginalization; Whereas for over two decades, Congress has supported a resolution for a National Day of Silence , and for a decade, Congress has supported a resolution for No Name-Calling Week ; Whereas advocates have designated 2023–2024 as a time for communities to carry out the Rise Up for LGBTQI+ Youth in Schools Initiative in support of LGBTQI+ young people in schools, by building on the goals of the National Day of Silence and the No Name-Calling Week to create a sustained call to action to demand equal educational opportunity, basic civil rights protections, and freedom from erasure for all students; Whereas LGBTQI+ young people frequently experience bias-based bullying and harassment, discrimination, and punitive discipline that increases the likelihood they will enter the school-to-prison pipeline; Whereas over 200 anti-LGBTQI+ education bills are introduced each year in State legislatures across the country, the majority of which specifically target transgender and nonbinary young people, including— (1) in Idaho, on March 30, 2020, where Governor Brad Little signed the first bill into law barring transgender students from playing on the school sports teams that correspond with their gender identity 17 days after the COVID–19 pandemic was declared a national emergency; (2) between 2021 and 2022, when 17 additional States enacted laws prohibiting transgender students from playing alongside their peers on school sports teams