Sex Education

Thousands of students walked out of school to protest sex ed classes that don’t include gays

Approximately 38,000 students participated in a planned walkout calling for "modernized" sex education, including same-sex ed.

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The GOP wants to make it hard for schools to acknowledge LGBTQ people exist

If Republicans have their way, parents will even have to sign a permission slip that says their kids can learn queer kids are bullied.

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The right wing is on a tear about sex ed for all the obvious reasons

It's spring, and the religious right's thoughts turn to how to stop kids from learning about sex.

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Conservative Christians are fighting the ‘satanic sexualization of our children’

Christian conservatives are shifting focus to 'educational obscenity exemptions' to stop anti-bullying and sex ed programs.

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Conservatives are shocked — shocked! — that a college has sex education

The University of Tennessee's "Sex Week" is drawing rightwing outrage... again.

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‘Activist Mommy’ claims schools are forcing kids to learn how to have anal sex

She's asking parents to pull their kids out of public school for the day, but she homeschools her own so she won't be participating, thank you very much.

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Indiana senate passes bill requiring permission slip for students to learn about LGBT people

"I think people pretty well know what's good, and what's proper, and what's moral and what's not moral," the sponsor says.

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Bi and lesbian teens don’t know enough about STI risks

A study found that some bi and lesbian teens don't even know what a dental dam is.

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Do parents really need a two week notice about a school sex ed course?

Detractors of a proposed New Hampshire law say it would create hurdles to providing important sex education or even teaching classic literature.

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Conservatives send out fake email saying Tammy Baldwin wants kids taught gay sex

Conservative group Restore American Freedom and Liberty also called out gay Sen. Baldwin "disgusting."

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