"If you have sex, you will get X and die!"

[omorka]

All those who read this who are in Texas:

The Texas State Board of Education (henceforth SBOE) is in the process of adopting new health textbooks. Due to political pressures from the abstinence-only and anti-birth-control crowds, several of the textbooks under consideration have no information on birth control and/or condom use, or mention these only in terms of their failure rates. In addition to being bad policy in a state that has the nation's highest teen birth rate, this is technically a violation of the Health TEKS, which are abstinence-focused but do require at least discussing "barrier protection and other contraceptive methods." Hmm . . . maybe we should consider adding a Health section to the TAKS?

Please help by contacting the SBOE (the nice people at ProtectOurKids.com have a link to find your SBOE representative) and letting them know that Texans support comprehensive sex ed! It doesn't matter whether you have kids in the education system or not - you pay taxes here, you're entitled to your say. In fact, those of you who are former Texans and do have kids might want to write, too - "I'm not coming back if my kid isn't going to be educated," etc.

Thanks. This means a lot to me.

Comments

[memeslayer.livejournal.com]

Hey look, here's an article blaming gay men who sleep with women for the spread of AIDS:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/features/2670945 (http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/headline/features/2670945)

It makes it sound like that's the only thing women have to worry about. *sigh*

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Well, at least the article admitted that bisexuals exist, in a parenthetical way. I suppose we're an easy group to blame . . .

And I'm sure the folks who share needles are relieved to know that they're not to blame for the recent outbreaks of HIV. :rolleyes: