Sex Education Is a Reproductive Justice Issue What is Sex Education Anyway?

Sex Education Is a Reproductive Justice Issue _____________________________________________________________________________________ What is Sex Education Anyway? Sex health education (“sex ed”), is teaching and learning about a broad range of topics related to sex and sexuality, exploring values and beliefs about those topics, and gaining necessary skills to make decisions about one’s own health,. [...] What Should Sex Ed Include? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), high-quality sexual health education should provide students with the skills and knowledge needed to be healthy and that covers topics such as sexually transmitted infections (STIs), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and unintended pregnancies.ii Quality sex ed should be medically accurate and developm. [...] In fact, communities of color and LGBTQ+ folks have always had to live under these systems of oppression and have always had to push back against policies that aim to deny necessary information, resources, and that actively perpetuate violence and harm against us. [...] We can work to ensure that practitioners of color are centered, critically analyze and update sex education curriculum and more! We can work to ensure that sex ed curriculum is not only responsive to individual needs and identities, but also ensure that it acknowledges our past and how it impacts young people now. [...] What Actions Can I Take? It's going to take a lot of work and time to achieve the sex ed of our dreams that lives up to the values of Reproductive Justice and racial justice.