Join us next week for a conversation breaking down the "success sequence" and more
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This #SexualAssaultAwarenessMonth, we're ringing the alarm on how victim blaming is coming to classrooms through a remix of abstinence-only 🚨

Marketed as a pathway out of poverty, meet the "success sequence" in our latest policy brief👇
siecus.org/resource/sam...

The authors of Project 2025 are back at it 😒

Join Executive Director, Callie Simon, and @jessicavalenti.bsky.social for Know Means Know. Hosted by @educateusaction.bsky.social, we'll be breaking down what's happening and how we can stop them... before it's too late.
www.mobilize.us/educateus/ev...

Read more and find out how you can take action 💡
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The authors of Project 2025 are coming after sex ed🚨

In Backward to the Future, SIECUS dissects the Heritage Foundation’s sweeping new policy report, Saving America by Saving the Family, exposing how it serves as a roadmap for dismantling sex education and replacing it with ideological conformity.

What if I'm not into it? That's normal and healthy! Whether you're asexual, still figuring it out, or don't identify with any label, honest sex ed supports you're ability to communicate what you want and what's right for you 🖤🩶🤍💜

#SexEd #SexEducation #IAD #Education #Inclusive

Quote attributed to Callie Simon, Executive Director of SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change, reads: "I think it's not hyperbolic to say that sex ed is currently a battleground for the future of our country." It sits on a photograph, taken by Giulia Squillace, of a classroom with green chairs and a blue wall.

"I think it's not hyperbolic to say that sex ed is currently a battleground for the future of our country."

Have you tuned in to our recent #podcast episode with @siecus.bsky.social's Callie Simon on comprehensive sex education? Listen here: www.reprosfightback....

In honor of Sexual Assault Action Month, come hear from Jessica Valenti (Abortion Every Day) and Callie Simon (SIECUS) about what the Heritage Foundation is planning, what we're already seeing, and how we can stop them while there's still time. Register here: buff.ly/2uMEdxW

Are you a parent, advocate, policymaker, or just someone who cares about justice for LGBTQIA+ people? Check out our If/Then Series: LGBTQIA+ Rights👇
siecus.org/resource/if-then-series-lgbtqia-rights/

Trans joy can't be erased 🏳️‍⚧️

So while legislators try to block visibility by erasing trans students from classrooms, they cannot erase an entire community and the bravery of trans people continuing to live as their authentic selves, even if it's only in the moments when it's safe to do so.

The Coordinated Attack Against Comprehensive Sex Education in the U.S. — rePROs Fight Back Comprehensive sex education can help young people navigate relationships, traverse sexual and reproductive decision-making, and learn more about their own minds and bodies. Yet, sex education often va...

Comprehensive sex education (CSE) helps young people navigate relationships, traverse sexual & reproductive decision-making, & learn more about their own minds and bodies. Callie Simon, ED @siecus.bsky.social, discusses why CSE is essential & the coordinated opposition of the anti-rights minority:

Where does your state stand on sex ed?
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At the top of the image, a bold deep blue heading reads “It’s paperwork." Below it, a paragraph in smaller blue text reads "Sex education is overwhelmingly supported by parents, yet a growing number of states are adopting an opt-in model, which assumes no student will participate in sex education by." The background is a light tan.

Our latest policy brief, “Sex Ed and Parental Consent”, breaks down why opt-in policies are harmful and where they're popping up 💡
siecus.org/resource/sex...

At the top of the image, a bold cool orange heading reads “The Shocking Reason Many Miss Out on Sex Ed." Below it is a multi-color map of the United States with a legend. The eight states with opt-in policies are highlighted in red (Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nevada, Texas, and Utah). The four states with both opt-in and opt-out policies are highlighted in blue (Montana, Ohio, Tennessee, and Wyoming). 32 states have opt-out policies and are highlighted in green. The background is a light tan.

Honest sex ed is popular and effective! Despite this, more states are pushing for opt-in policies that would reduce participation. No student should be denied vital sexual health and abuse-prevention information because of paperwork.

Check out the 2025 State of the Period for more info💡
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Teens turn to AI before dads for answers about their period 🩸 As we support visibility this #EndoAwarenessMonth, we must address how the lack of menstrual education leaves parents and youth unequipped to talk to each other about questions, worries, and pain.

🚨 New Episode 🚨

This week on @reprosfightback.bsky.social I talk to the fabulous Callie Simon at @siecus.bsky.social about why comprehensive sex education is important and the many, many ways comprehensive sex education is under attack. #podcast

Download The Fight for Facts to explore our recommendations and resources 🔎
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At the upper left of the image, bold off-white text reads "17 states" with smaller off-white text below reading "in the U.S. prohibit instruction on abortion or require it to be stigmatized." The background is a deep cool blue with three yellow school chairs across from each other and a table between them.

At the center of the image, a bold off-white heading "The fight for honest sex ed." Below it in smaller off-white text reads "We can champion the kind of sex ed we deserve by guaranteeing honest, evidence-based info in policy and access to the best experts and resources in practice." The background is a deep cool blue.

It's not enough call out censorship and disinfo, we need to champion honest sex ed ✊

SIECUS and Guttmacher teamed up to break down anti-abortion instruction in classrooms and pinpoint exactly how we can fight for the kind of sex education we deserve 🎯

The Bi+ community represents the largest part of the LGBTQ+ community, including bi, pan, fluid, and queer people 💖💜💙

This #BiHealthMonth, we’re claiming the right to care.

Looking for support? Check out the Bisexual Resource Center 🌈
biresource.org

Honest sex ed empowers patients and providers by breaking down assumptions, building awareness of health risks for different populations, and demonstrating the importance of care for all.

This week, SIECUS celebrated International Women’s Day and National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. We support the “inconvenient” women and parts of womanhood that continue to be pushed out of public view by advancing honest sex education that embraces our full selves.

A Mississippi mother couldn’t find accurate sex ed for her kids. So she started a class at church As states scale back requirements for comprehensive sex ed, some parents and faith communities are stepping in to teach what schools won’t

A Mississippi mother couldn’t find accurate sex ed for her kids. So she started a class at church www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

📢 NEW: We are pleased to contribute with our partners to the call for input issued by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on “Accelerating Progress Towards Preventing Adolescent Girls’ Pregnancy”

➡️ Read here: bit.ly/OHCHRsubmission

At the top of the image, a bold deep blue heading reads “Colonization & conformity." Below it, a paragraph in smaller blue text reads "Abstinence-only functions as a one-size-fits-all system. Built on the legacy of colonization, it's designed to reproduce specific cultural attitudes about sex, rather than nurture healthy behaviors and outcomes." The background is a light tan.

At the top of the image, a bold deep blue heading reads “A model for better sex ed." Below it, a paragraph in smaller blue text reads "Indigenous sex education offers an alternative rooted in community and identity. This approach has been shown to improve family communication, condom use, and conversations about sexual health with friends." The background is a light tan.

Indigenous sex education offers an alternative for better sex ed, weaving generations of wisdom to meet the needs of today.

Follow the link in our bio and check out the full blog 🔗
siecus.org/culture-is-p...

In the upper-right left of the image, a bold cool orange heading reads “A Model For Better Sex Ed That's Been Around For Generations." Above it, in smaller orange text reads "Indigenous sex education." The background is a light tan. Below the text is a weeded coast along a large body of water and elevated land or mountains in the distance.

Sex ed should grow up with us 🪴 Abstinence-only is stuck in the past.

Not much has changed in decades🕸️, abstinence-only is still built on fear and shame, purity and impurity, because that's all it knows.

Looking for more resources? Download our policy brief with @guttmacher.org, The Fight for Facts 👇
siecus.org/resource/the...

Are you a parent, advocate, policymaker, or just someone who cares about access to reproductive healthcare? Check out our If/Then Series: Abortion Access👇
siecus.org/resource/if-...

If you care about abortion access, then you should care about sex education 📣

Abortion is not a bad word. Treating it like one put patients and providers at risk.

#CelebrateAbortionProviders

Equity Cannot Wait: Confronting the Unequal Burden of HIV and AIDS on Women of Color National Women Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: Black, Latina and transgender women bear a disproportionate share of the epidemic

Today marks National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.

Black, Latina and trans women continue to bear a disproportionate burden of the HIV epidemic—driven by systemic inequities that shape access to prevention, testing, care and survival.