Sex Education Needs to Be Less Straight
What does an inclusive version of ‘the talk’ look like?
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9 min readDec 6, 2019
When Alex Clavel was in eighth grade, in 2015, his health teacher started the class’s “sex unit” with a familiar activity. Posting signs around the room with the names of reproductive organs — uterus, cervix, testes — she called them out, one by one. The students were supposed to run toward the sides of…
