Senate Bill Would Require Sex Ed to be LGBTQ-Inclusive, Medically Accurate

[wrestlingdog]

A bill pending in the Senate could drastically improve the sad state of sex education in this country. On Thursday, Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, introduced the Real Education for Healthy Youth Act, which would provide funding for sex-ed teacher training and grants for education programs that address the needs of LGBTQ young people.The bill has

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[tabaqui]

Excellent. Let's see what kind of hysterical, pearl-clutching reasons the right comes up with to deny this is needed.....

[natyanayaki]

Yeah, like sex-ed should be taught by people who are trained to teach sex-ed. Not by English teachers, or Math teachers, or Biology teachers (example).

[snarkbite]

Yes, Yes, YES to your comment. Sex ed classes should be spread out throughout the year and grades (as obviously there are different issues to talk about for 5th graders than for 10th graders), so that the school district's trained sex ed teacher(s) can have a full-time position and availability to students.

[moonshaz]

This could use a couple more tags:

1. sex ed
2. somebody please think of the children!

It would be SO awesome if something like this could pass. *sigh* We know the Republicans aren't going to let that happen, but it's nice to dream....

[wrestlingdog]

Fixed. I was sure that there was a sex ed tag, but when I was writing up the post I couldn't find it because the formatting was weird for some reason.

[wrestlingdog]

It's one of my favorites. I wish there was more use for it.

[redheadedfemme]

This would be great, but unfortunately, it has a snowball's chance in hell of passing.

[lightframes]

It took me a long time to realize not everybody got the same sex education I did in school. It's really sad how little some people know, even as adults. I know the system failed a lot of people.