admin The stats on the failures of U.S. sex ed are alarming, and should incite urgency in our government to prioritize sufficient education for young people. But instead, they’re doing the opposite. The overturning of Roe v. Wade was a major setback for reproductive health and created an even more urgent need for proper sex ed in schools, and since then even more backwards legislation has been introduced. Two notably harmful bills out of Florida are H.B. 1557, also known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which bans schools from “encouraging classroom instruction about sexual orientation or gender identity in primary grade levels” and H.B. 1069, also known as the “Don’t Say Period” bill, which bans schools from teaching about subjects such as menstruation and sexuality before the sixth grade (meaning that The Care and Keeping of You would, effectively, be a banned book.) The Texas GOP’s 2022 platform also stated that they would ban “teaching of sex education, sexual health, or sexual choice or identity in any public school.”
2023 Sex Ed Compared To The American Girl Puberty Book
