Sexuality Education

August 26, 2025

The Trump administration is threatening to pull federal funding from 40 states for a sex education program aimed at vulnerable teens unless those states remove references in their curriculum to gender identity and transgender people.

In a Tuesday press release, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said the action reflected the Trump administration’s “ongoing commitment to protecting children from attempts to indoctrinate them with delusional ideology.”

The threat comes after California refused to change its curriculum last week and HHS terminated the state’s nearly $6 million-a-year grant.  Read More

April 12, 2025

Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is critical for young people. The World Health Organization states CSE should cover relationships, autonomy, anatomy, puberty, contraception, sexually transmitted infections, and how to care for one’s health.

The Walla Walla Public School (WWPS) website states that its curriculum was “highly recommended, [and] is state-reviewed and endorsed.” Unfortunately, many middle and high schoolers feel they do not have sufficient knowledge on how to access medical resources or care for themselves.  Read More

January 17, 2025

Research shows that comprehensive sex education reduces teen birth rates and sexually transmitted infections, improving outcomes for young people. However, the implementation of sex education is left to the states, causing vast differences in what adolescents learn (and don’t learn) about sex.

Hims set out to find the states providing the most comprehensive curriculum and services inside schools, using the following data sets to rank each state.  Read More