ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the extent to which students felt agentive regarding their ability to address gender identity and sexuality in schools, and their plans for doing so in the face of constraints. It examines Jill's experience in the class again for Jill, more than any other student, had experienced first-hand the difficulties of enacting this work in schools. Teachers such as Jill may be unable to perceive or imagine the impact of their actions, and thus perceive them to lack the agency to cause effect. In Jill's stories below, then, her agency emerged out of the combination of her own ability to act and the constraints that she faced for example, her position as a student teacher, relatively low in authority. Jill, meanwhile, wanted to organize a panel featuring both lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans gender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) and ally students but also described her worries that she would not be able to address the issue so directly.
