Gender Justice Means Freedom to Learn: How School Censorship Promotes Sex Discrimination

This promotes bias against vulnerable students and threatens to normalize and entrench discrimination against people of color, women and girls, and LGBTQIA+ people for a generation of young people. [...] Topics commonly censored through book and curriculum bans include: LGBTQIA+ identities, gender, and sexuality; race, racism, and the history of racism, segregation, and colonization; reproductive rights and sexual health; and consent, sexual harassment, violence, and abuse. [...] Several states in the last three years Schools have a duty to teach all students how to recognize, have banned teaching topics like the understand, and reject the history of racism that continues history of racism (like Texas in 2021), the to impact the daily lives of Black, brown, and Indigenous existence of racism today (like Georgia people and other people of color. [...] And teaching about race and racism is Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s critical to helping educators become aware of their own Fight for Desegregation, which is based biases and disrupt racist systems in their schools, including on a true story of a Mexican and Puerto racist policies and excessive discipline of Black and brown Rican family’s fight to end segregation in girls. [...] This culture lessons on reproductive health, of shame and secrecy about topics related to sex and thereby banning the recognition pregnancy also stigmatizes pregnant and parenting of the existence of transgender students, imposing additional barriers to finishing their people in sexual relationships and education.