Pride Week: The Importance Of Inclusion In Sex Education

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🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Sex can be a nerve-racking experience no matter what. That's especially true if you have no clue what to do, and since LGBTQ+ topics are often left out of the conversation in school sex ed classes, many queer people know this feeling well. Life Kit spoke with sexuality educators to understand what sex education could look like for queer students and the importance of including everybody in the discussions.

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0:00.0	You're listening to shortwave from NPR.
0:04.6	Hey Emily.
0:11.1	Hey, Separin.
0:12.1	So do you all remember getting taught sex ed in high school?
0:15.7	Uh, kind of.
0:17.0	Though, to be honest, I did a lot of my own research.
0:20.4	Like my mom got me some books and then when that got to be like on bitmuch, I got my own
0:24.8	books and taught myself.
0:27.0	Yes, yes.
0:28.0	To sympathize, I actually with it sneak into the little local bookstore and find our
0:32.7	bodies ourselves in like the human development section and serapticiously read it in the
0:38.2	corner and hope that nobody I knew walked in and asked what I was reading.
0:42.2	Little Aaron.
0:43.2	Little, little awkward questioning Aaron.
0:46.6	And what is maybe not surprising about this given we had to do our own research is that
0:50.9	there is actually no national mandate for sex ed in the US.
0:55.2	Really?
0:56.2	Kind of surprises me like none.
0:58.8	Yeah, and not only that, but most sex ed that does exist leaves out LGBTQ topics or just
1:05.8	barely touches on it.
1:07.7	And then there are states where they even require educators to portray topics like homosexuality
1:12.7	in a negative way.
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