sesfw
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Post by sesfw on Dec 1, 2019 20:28:38 GMT -5
Hopefully it will get laughed out of committee
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thyme4change
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Post by thyme4change on Dec 1, 2019 23:25:11 GMT -5
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weltschmerz
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Post by weltschmerz on Dec 3, 2019 13:26:08 GMT -5
Oh, good grief! Speaking of ignorance....... Today, 39 states and the District of Columbia require some form of sex or HIV education. But only 17 require it to be medically accurate — meaning educators can teach that condoms don’t work or that innate gender differences govern everything from how people look at their fingernails to how they carry their books. And abstinence-based education (now sometimes described as “sexual risk avoidance education”) has become more common, not less, since I was in high school, thanks to support from Republican administrations. By 2014, half of middle schools and a three-quarters of high schools focused on abstinence. The Trump administration has also been a strong backer of the abstinence-only approach — in 2018, it issued new funding rules favoring abstinence-based programs.www.vox.com/identities/2019/12/3/20877238/sex-education-california-lgbtq-gender-schools-health
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justme
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Post by justme on Dec 3, 2019 13:35:57 GMT -5
Oh, good grief! Speaking of ignorance....... Today, 39 states and the District of Columbia require some form of sex or HIV education. But only 17 require it to be medically accurate — meaning educators can teach that condoms don’t work or that innate gender differences govern everything from how people look at their fingernails to how they carry their books. And abstinence-based education (now sometimes described as “sexual risk avoidance education”) has become more common, not less, since I was in high school, thanks to support from Republican administrations. By 2014, half of middle schools and a three-quarters of high schools focused on abstinence. The Trump administration has also been a strong backer of the abstinence-only approach — in 2018, it issued new funding rules favoring abstinence-based programs.www.vox.com/identities/2019/12/3/20877238/sex-education-california-lgbtq-gender-schools-healthOn a similar vein I just saw today www.businessinsider.com/facebook-rejected-ads-promoting-hiv-prevention-prep-politics-2019-11 Facebook has decided that any ads the promote HIV prevention pills are "political" and cannot be posted. Yet political candidates can post demonstrably false political ads on Facebook. Are people seriously wanting a resurgence of HIV?
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