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May 10, 2019

Calif. OKs New Sex Ed Framework, Nixes Book Describing Anal Sex

The California Department of Education on Wednesday approved what it called a new “framework” for health education in the state’s public schools, and as would be expected, the sections of the framework dealing with sex education drew protests and controversy, as the state decided that kids should be taught about “gender identity” starting in kindergarten, and in grades four through six should start learning about “sexual feelings including masturbation,” according to a Washington Post report on the board’s public hearing held May 8.  The new educational framework also includes guidelines on teaching children about nutrition, exercise, smoking, drinking, and skin care. But it was the sex education guidelines that drew a crowd of about 200 protesters to the state Capitol in Sacramento on Wednesday, The Los Angeles Times reported.  "It's just scary what they are going to be teaching. It's pornography," The Times quoted Anaheim Hills resident Patricia Reyes as saying. "If this continues, I'm not sending them to school." The protesters were not mollified by the board’s decision to drop five books from its list of recommended learning materials, due to their explicit approach to sexual subject matter. The book S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-to-Know Sexuality Guide to Get You Through Your Teens and Twenties was dropped due to its frank discussions of anal sex, and the use of bondage in sexual activities.  The board also recommended dropping the book Changing You, for its artistic renderings of the human penis and vagina, as well as its description of “what having sex is.” "It's important to know the board is not trying to ban books. We're not saying that the books are bad," board member Feliza I. Ortiz-Licon told The Times. "But the removal will help avoid the misunderstanding that California is mandating the use of these books." Conservative groups had labeled the books “offensive, reckless and immoral,” according to a Fox News report.  But the new framework, while leaving specifics of the sex ed curriculum up to individual school districts, mandates that schools must “recognize different sexual orientations and be inclusive of same-sex relationships in discussions; teach about gender, gender expression, gender identity and the harm of negative gender stereotypes; and teach the value of committed relationships such as marriage”—much of which is anathema to conservative religious teachings. Parents remain free to hold their children out of sex education classes, however. Photo via Sacramento Bee Video Screen Capture 

 
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