Turlock Unified School District prohibits discrimination, harassment, intimidation and bullying in educational programs, activities, or employment or on the basis of actual or perceived ancestry, age, color, disability, gender, immigration status, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, parental, pregnancy, family or marital status, or association with a person or a group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. TUSD requires that school personnel take immediate steps to intervene when it is safe to do so and when he or she witnesses an act of discrimination, harassment, intimidation, or bullying.