Posted on 06/16/2018 5:32:41 PM PDT by EdnaMode
The Fairfax County School Board voted unanimously on Thursday to approve updated language in its sex education curriculum that is more inclusive to LGBTQ and transgender people.
The board brought in a special panel that recommended changing the term “biological sex” to “sex assigned at birth,” which the panel said aligns with recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychological Association and the American College of Physicians.
The board also changed sex education policies to provide more information to female students regarding contraception, as well as education on pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, for male students.
However, the new changes haven’t been without opposition. Some argued that the new curriculum does not go far enough in explaining the health risks of being transgender or using contraceptives. Fox 5 also reported that opponents said that talking to high school students about PrEP will promote unprotected sex.
The Diocese of Arlington tweeted that it was “sad” to see the board trying to make the sex ed curriculum more inclusive.
“It is sad to see the Fairfax County Public Schools board vote to change the Family Life Education Curriculum,” the Diocese wrote in a tweet.
In a late-night vote that was delayed by the board members due to heated speeches and unruliness from both sides, the measure ultimately passed 10-0 with two board members abstaining.
The board also voted to remove language from the dress code that many spoke about as potentially body-shaming and unfairly targeting female students.
The new language will be made gender neutral, with references to blouses, mid-drifts and cleavage being removed, as well as the term “otherwise sexually provocative.” The current dress code will still ban clothing that exposes “an excessive amount of bare skin.”
Didn’t matter. The self-styled sexual sophisticates always get their way. Always. Too bad for the kids.
“Friendly”
“Mid-drifts”? This was published? Ne zot, we’re doomed.
Ph. D. Recommendations! American board of whatever. Almost any four year old knows better!
Just call it "chromasomal sex"...can't argue with (or change) xx or xy.
Full blown insanity brought on by the mental disease known as “liberalism” on public display. The queers should NOT be allowed to indoctrinate kids...that’s the real travesty.
“...which the panel said aligns with recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychological Association and the American College of Physicians.”
They have no idea how much these associations have been hijacked by pro-pervs.
These school boards members must be voted out.
JoMa
Which city in Fairfax County did this occur in?
Sodom or Gomorrah?
So in other words, literally anti-science.
That's quite an "education" they are providing in Fairfax County.
Fairfax County was once a traditionally conservative county, even for Democrats who weren’t totally insane like those today.
Today it is a liberal/hardcore leftist county for the rich and lazy Democrats. I have no idea where the poor Hispanic workers live - perhaps Prince William County or parts of Arlington or Alexandria. Doubt that they would live in rich white-liberaland, Falls Church.
Oh, by the way, the MS-13 and other Hispanic gangs have been in Fairfax County for decades and used to cross over into Falls Church, Arlington, and Alexandria in their operations.
Oh crap. They still do that. Nothing has changed with the Democrats in charge.
There are reportedly illegals in Herndon and Sterling. I think in parts of Springfield and Woodbridge too.
Drifting snow can be provocative during the winter months.
The farther they go from the word of God, the more insane things become.
This is just out there...
Good point, although rarely relevant in the South.
This should improve the US’s standing on the world list
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