I certainly think there is a need for sex education (although not earlier than 7th or 8th grade). IMO, the real issue is whether the sex ed is of the Christian/Darwinian based variety, or the BLTG-Q&A abomination variety.
It took me decades to learn how to have a proper relationship with my wife. I feel like my wife and I would have had an even better marriage if someone had explained things to me when I was a teenager rather than making me figure things out on my own. If the sex ed was all about how a good sex life strengthens a long term monogamous relationship, then I think sex education would be a good thing.
I tend to agree with j.earl, that kids at the 7th-8th grade level —IOW, puberty— do need factual sex education. But it should be FACTUAL, biology-based education, about how male and female bodies work, for the propagation of the species. Sperm, egg, pregnancy, gestation, childbirth.
I am certainly sympathetic to the view that it’s the parents’ job, not the school’s, to teach their kids the birds & bees. But what if the parents are as misinformed as mine were? I was taught a bunch of superstitious “old wives tales” that were just plain wrong, because my mother had been taught the same; she had no answers for my questions beyond “that’s enough, don’t be nasty.”
Many parents don’t do “the talk” at all. So there needs to be matter-of-fact basic education on the subject, included in biology class.
The LGBT agenda OTOH is pushing “expressing your sexuality” to children, and encouraging sodomy and homosexuality, as well as the notion of “adult allies for LGBT children. Different ways to achieve orgasm, while avoiding pregnancy; abortion and how to get treatment for the inevitable STDs. As if abortion and disease is just normal.
It is nothing less than a pedophile agenda.
The LGBT sex-ed guidebooks actually say that “sexuality” must focus on “expression” and be completely “nonbinary” (not male and female, but “gender-fluid”) and avoid discussing ANY connection between the sex act’s function pertaining to reproduction and childbirth!
Menstrual cycle, ovulation, sperm and ovum? Stages of gestation, baby in the womb, miracle of life? Nope! Not allowed.
Let’s talk about oral and anal! And trans expression! And bullies using the wrong pronouns!
This crap being foisted on our children must be fought with every ounce of fight we have. If we lose on this, we are done.