SEX EDUCATION

Texas Senate OKs bill that aims to keep sexually explicit material out of school libraries

If the bill becomes law, book vendors would have to assign ratings to books based on depictions or references to sex.

Fort Worth ISD drops sex ed despite $2.6 million purchase of instruction materials in April

The decision to drop the course followed a Jan. 24 school board meeting that saw dozens of residents and parents speak out against the curriculum, which has been in place since 2014.

For teens in Deep East Texas, accessing sex education and contraception is next to impossible

In conservative Sabine County, it’s hard for teens to access contraception or sex education beyond lessons on abstinence. The Deep East Texas region has one of the highest teen birth rates in the state.

Texas GOP platform calls for ban on teaching “sexual matters,” while requiring students to learn about “dignity of the preborn human”

The party planks specify what the Texas GOP believes students should and should not be taught in the classroom about gender and sex, signaling further shifts to the right. Critics say such policies would be harmful and discriminatory.

5 things you didn’t know about actor Ncuti Gatwa

On Sunday, the BBC announced that Gatwa will star as the 14th all-time doctor in the legendary series “Doctor Who.”

In defiance of Attorney General Ken Paxton, Austin ISD’s Pride Week marches on

Paxton equated the week of LGBTQ-inclusive activities with sex education in a letter to the district. Austin ISD says it’s about acceptance.

How early is too early to start talking openly with kids about sex? This advice is so smart

If you’re a parent or caregiver, you might have wondered -- or you might be wondering: How early is too early to start talking openly about sex? And when we say “sex” -- you don’t have to start with the entire conversation. A good place place to begin is with body parts; as in, call them what they are, without the nicknames. If you have the self-correction talk when they’re older, your kids might wonder: What else were we told, that wasn’t true? He’s not so much interested in platitudes and truisms, but instead, looking for the specific, odd, uplifting, effective, real advice from you about how you make it through your days.