'Why not make them prepared and safe so that they can live full lives and not be shamed to be who they are and engage in practices that they want to with consent with other people?'
comprehensive sex ed. “I grew up [in Texas], and I know there's different personal convictions in the way that people feel, and a lot of that comes from religion,” he says. “But the fact of the matter is that this isn't a conversation about religion. This isn't a conversation about culture. We're not telling kids, 'Hey, go out, have sex.' We're telling kids, 'Hey, go out, and have the information that you need. If you choose to make that decision.
Ayanna frames the issues surrounding sex ed as a “concoction of terrible decision-making” centering [on] adult hang-ups with sex. According to her, sex ed needs to match up with the reality adolescents are facing today. “We know that high schoolers and even some middle schoolers are out here making pretty adult decisions because of the circumstances that they're in,” says Ayanna. “So instead of trying to shelter them and coddle them and to give them, like, this sweet sugarcoated birds and the bees, we have to be real and honest because we know what young people are doing. So why not? And they're gonna do it anyway.
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