In Florida, Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has moved to protect children from being indoctrinated with topics about sexual orientation and gender identity at such a young age. While Democrats and liberals labeled the now law the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, it would ultimately pass. Now, in Rhode Island, Democrats are eagerly pushing the Senate Bill 2285, which would allow students to be taught “pleasure based sexual relations” in school.
According to the bill, “Teachings would recognize pleasure based sexual relations, different sexual orientations and be inclusive of same-sex relationship. The act would also provide that instruction include gender, gender expression, gender identity, and the harm of negative gender stereotypes.”
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While the Democrats are pushing forward, Kimberly Quagan, a mother, stated, “Any child under 18, we should not be talking about sexual pleasure. We shouldn’t be talking about some of these topics that they’re looking to roll into sexual education. I think it should be basically from a clinical standpoint that’s one thing, and I actually think anything they want to teach regarding this matter, the curriculum should be approved by parents.”
Democrat Rhode Island State Sen. Tiara Mack, defended the bill, saying, “There was no conversation about what it meant to be gay, of what a healthy relationship looked like. Sex education is about learning about gender and gender roles, about what it’s like to grow up in a single-parent family. It’s about all the things I wish I had gotten. It’s about knowing I wasn’t alone.”
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On the other side of the debate, American Principles Project President Terry Schilling warned, “Parents in Rhode Island should be extremely concerned about this legislation. If passed, public schools in the state would be injected with the most radical ideological propaganda. Kids as young as 11 would be taught — and likely encouraged — to pursue sex changes if they feel even remotely uncomfortable in their own bodies. Schools would also indoctrinate students into a relativist moral view about sex, explicitly infringing on the rights of parents to form their children in these matters.”
The bill is also supported by Planned Parenthood in the state. They tweeted, “Rhode Island students deserve sex ed that’s accurate, affirming, and honest — but at many schools, they’re not getting it.”
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The only sex ed that needs to be taught at school is that females menstruate and can get pregnant and that males have sperm and can make a baby. The rest should be left up to the parent on when they feel the child is mature enough to have these conversations and what those conversations will detail. What a parent chooses to tell a child and what they decide is not in the best interest of the child should be solely at their discretion and not for STRANGERS to decide. They need to tend their own business and to their own children.
In the Netherlands sex ed is being taught at 4 years old…..they have the lowest teen pregnancy rate in Europe
You should learn from this