I’m gonna find that survey MS. Davis if it’s out there but I did find this with article with 1st search. Might be relevant in some way But hard to tell until we see those ?’s I definitely want to see them . My little granddaughter that lives with me is eleven. She started her period around three months ago just before she entered 5th grade. Before school started she asked me if she was going to see
that film
. I told her yes and she said “why?You’ve already taught me about that stuff” So sweet and innocent, she does have so much to learn as time goes on. She opened up and told me all her girlfriends. They were talking about sex in their own young way. I have two adult daughters that I didn’t explicitly much to them about sex until they were around 7th. Older and bolder, I started trying to educate my oldest granddaughter (now 18) early on once I would over hear her friends curious about sex. Full blown old now, I started earlier with her because the world is outrageously insane. Knowledge is power. But she’s on a need to know basis only. It begins at home. I want to see those questions! Anyway, rant over and here is article:
Sex education in American public schools is routinely criticized by health experts as lacking in
comprehensive information, using stigmatizing language, and increasing risks to students through
abstinence-based programs. But for LGBTQ students, the stigma and risks associated with public school sex ed is even greater, because most schools simply ignore the topic of gender identity and LGBTQ sex ed in the curriculum, leaving many students physically and emotionally vulnerable.
Heidi Beedle, an 11th grade English teacher in Colorado Springs, Colorado sees the exclusion of LGBTQ sex ed as a contributing factor to her LGBTQ students’ daily experiences of discomfort. “Broadly speaking, the LGBTQ students in my school generally just feel unheard, unacknowledged, and in many cases unwelcome,” she said.
In May of this year,
Fremont Unified School District in California completely eliminated their sex education for 4th-6th grade because of “controversial content,” which included lessons about LGBTQ and gender. The district has since voted to re-introduce sex ed under a new curriculum. A school district in
Allendale, Michigan also pulled their section on gender identity this past spring because that section had been added without approval from sex education advisory board. Allendale Public Schools outsources their sexual education through an organization called, Willing to Wait, an abstinence-based curriculum that is run by a crisis pregnancy center. Both the gender identity section and outsourced teaching are planned to be reviewed by the board when the board re-convenes in the fall.
LGBTQ students suffer when schools leave gender out of sex education
