Is sex education in a state of crisis? Many parents, students and educators have complained about different aspects of sex education in the U.S. Fortunately, a new sex education bill pending in the Senate addresses these concerns.
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The sex education bill, introduced in the Senate by Sen. Cory Booker, is called Real Education for Healthy Youth Act, which focuses on making sex education more LGBT-inclusive and medically correct and accurate, Slate reports. This sex education Senate bill also promotes more funding to provide teachers adequate sex-ed training.
"Sexual health education that includes information beyond abstinence has been found to delay sexual intercourse, increase condom or contraceptive use, reduce the number of partners among young people, and decrease physical aggression with intimate partners," Booker's office said in a press release. Topics such as relationship violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment and STD and pregnancy prevention are also emphasized in the pending sex education Senate bill.
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This sex-ed bill is very important for many people because only 13 states are requiring schools to teach medically accurate sex education lessons. For this reason, many untrained and religious sex education teachers have taught medically inaccurate lessons to students, Slate explains.
Most sex education classes are also not covering topics about the sexual concerns of the LGBT community. "Truly L.G.B.T.-inclusive sex ed weaves the issues of L.G.B.T. people throughout the curriculum without judgment or stigma and creates space for honest discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity," the New York Times reports.
