The Effects of Forcing a State Sex Education Framework on REAL Students, Parents, and Grandparents
IMAGINE:
A nine-year-old child comes home and tells his grandmother that she is a liar because she told him only women could have babies. His teacher said men could.
A five-year-old comes home and tells her Mom and Dad that she is a boy because she likes playing with trucks and that she doesn’t want to be a girl anymore. Her teacher said that she should be a boy.
A twelve-year-old going through puberty sits in a class with his teacher who is describing solo, vaginal, oral and anal sex. He is expected to talk about these acts with his classmates. He then goes home and tells his parents that these sex acts are “okay and everyone does them” without consequence. “It’s just sex,” he says.
A sixteen-year-old decides she doesn’t want to be a girl anymore so tells everyone to stop calling her by her given name but by a male name. She doesn’t discuss this with her parents who don’t find out until a teacher lets it slip. The sixteen-year-old alienates herself from her parents. A school counselor told the girl she might be a boy because she doesn’t want to have menstrual periods.
Do these situations sound outrageous to you? They are not. These are actual, real-life situations happening to real people. These are not politically powerful or famous people; just normal people just trying to live their lives and raise their children.
These are not organically created situations. Some of them might have been precipitated by social media. But most of them will originate with HB 119/SB 199 in Maryland, Primary and Secondary Education – Health Education Framework – Established. This bill would require all counties in Maryland to create an “age-appropriate” curriculum that is consistent with the Comprehensive Health Education Framework.
The phrase “age appropriate” in the title is laughable. Here is what the bill sponsor, Delegate Atterbury from Howard County, Maryland, considers “age appropriate.”