The fight for comprehensive and inclusive sexuality education gathered unprecedented momentum in the past decade.
As campus sexual assault gained greater visibility, colleges and universities began implementing consent education programs to teach incoming freshmen about the importance of affirmative consent.
At the K-12 level, Texas’ board of education agreed to revamp sex ed textbooks to go beyond teaching abstinence-only. In Washington state, voters passed Referendum 90, which requires all public schools to teach age-appropriate, inclusive, comprehensive sexual health education to students K-12.
But these conversations about inclusive sex ed in schools are not happening everywhere…