NY Lawmaker Wants Sex Ed for Kindergartners (ft. Anthony Lee)

I think introducing the concept of boys who like boys and girls who like girls and boys who feel like girls inside and vice versa is absolutely fine for 5 year olds to learn along with the very basic and toned down reproductive lessons. That way the kids can identify their own feelings and genders as they grow. The point is that they do not learn that a specific way is the "right" way but that people are different and love in different ways. Then when they hit puberty they can be taught the importance of safe sex in different combinations of couples and also taught how to deal with issues of consent among their peers.

ProgressiveRoxx

I think people forget that there's the internet. In some cases you need to educate before they learn factually incorrect things on their own and become misinformed. I think it depends on the child though. Industrialised sex ed... Doesn't sound good to me

what if they are thaught wrong...

Bart was awkwardly quiet this episode lol

Whoa, that's really an in-depth introduction to sex ed for really young kids. I don't think they'll grasp all of that full impact info. There's so much of it. I was thinking like they were, simple sex education - the introduction of the human anatomy and maybe a little explanation on gender; ya know that kind of thing. This will be hard for the kids, cause they're gonna ask their parents. And if the parents don't know, it could possibly get icky. So many things have to come into consideration when it comes to this. Damn this is one hard law to pass and convince parents.

They lost me at the pronoun bs

Allen Xavier Silva

I think 11 is the perfect age tbh, when I was 11 a lot of people I knew were already having sex. Plus during that time if you were on basically any social media you would get exposed to sex, especially on twitter and Tumblr so I can only imagine what its like for kids that are 11 now where every kid is on every social media app. Also fan fictions were pretty big during that time too and those always contained loads of extremely detailed smut. Stan culture is huge these days and fan fiction is a big part of that culture so chances are they already know all that shit now

I read a few comments on the recent Big Mood podcast that said, "Jess shouldn't have broken up with Joe" and "Steve caused the breakup. He thought he had a chance lol. He uses woman tactics to passively try to get his way." I don't even know what the last one means but I love fan theories.

2oV

I first learned about sex in third grade. I had a friend who mentioned it so I asked. She responded with, "you know...." and gave a knowing look. I somehow connected the dots. I'm pretty sure I vaguely knew of the activity (mostly from scenes in movies), but didn't know it had a name up until that point.

2oV

Right, 11ish is great age because that's puberty. That's when its relevant.

I think 11 is the perfect age honestly that’s when all these feelings start happening. Some kids are having sex by 15 then it’s too late. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. I remember being super curious about sexual things at 11 doesn’t mean that I did anything about it but the info would of been nice. My son is 8 and he’s already had a lot of questions about sex, being gay, transgender all all kinds of stuff. I love keeping communication open with him it’s kind of hard to decide where to draw the line with schooling versus letting parents parent and educate.

I think the only thing that they should be taught at that young age is the correct names of their private parts and that no one should be touching them there and if someone does it’s not their fault and to tell their parents or a teacher. Knowing the correct names is important because if something happens the case might be thrown out of court because they don’t know the correct name or sometimes the kid might tell their parents or teacher and they think it’s nothing because the kid says “he touch my cookie”. So I do think it’s important to teach them the correct names

ShyGabby

This is a very dangerous thing. Children that young don’t have the capacity to understand concepts like sexuality. If you tell a little boy that being gay means liking other boys, he’ll think, “Well, I like Jimmy because he’s my best friend. I must be gay”. Because they don’t understand sexual attraction. Also teaching them about being transgender and hormone blockers and things of that nature is extremely dangerous. The transgender suicide rate after surgery is over 40%. That is higher than the rates of both slavery and the prisoners of Auschwitz. It isn’t because they are marginalized or “oppressed”, It’s because an overwhelming majority of transgender people grow out of it and then they realize that they’ve done something permanent and irreversible to their bodies.

This dumb ass hell. It's basic psychology. You tell the kids don't touch red button, there gonna touch the fuckin red button. You bring the idea of sex to there mind, there gonna want to explore it. Way to young 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

I was definitely viewing this from the point wishing the sex-Ed they were going to talk about to be more about consent and educating on assault/harassment because sadly, a lot of it comes from these kids own homes. If it focused more on educating these kids on that, I definitely would not be opposed to teaching kids that young!