IT DEPENDS.  Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) records requests by Capitol Resource Institute revealed several Tennessee counties, including Shelby County (Memphis) and Montgomery County (Clarksville) have been operating under “SB 646/HB 1506,” a failed CSE bill that never survived committee hearings in the 2021 legislative session.  Additionally, the TN Department of Education has promulgated standards for Family Life Education that are in direct opposition to TN Law on this topic.  While TN Law on this subject is very good, some counties appear to be skirting it while the TN DOE standards for middle school and high school appear to mimic those of Michigan, renowned for its far left CSE curriculums.  Parents, be vigilant and stay engaged.   

Furthermore, you can opt out of this curriculum here.

FALSE.  When you examine the handful of organizations pushing this agenda, their actual footprint is very small.  Per the usual modus operandi of the Left, and the elite global organizations backing them “behind the curtain,” they are very skilled at making themselves appear larger and their supporters more widespread than either actually are.  You, the commonsense parent, are the majority.  Keep this in mind as you find likeminded commonsense parents, both Republican and Democrat.

FALSE.  Mary Calderone, medical director for Planned Parenthood from 1953 to 1964 and Alfred Kinsey devotee, founded SIECUS in 1964 as its first president.  She once told a group of physicians that making the public aware of the “vital importance of infant and childhood sexuality” was the primary goal of SIECUS.  Her other passions were abortion and birth control, and she was a formidable force for the acceptance and legalization of both.

Another SIECUS founding member, Wardell Pomeroy, Kinsey devotee and coauthor of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, stated “In father-daughter incest, the daughter’s age makes all the difference in the world.  The older she is, the likelier it is that the experience will be a positive one.  The best sort of incest of all, surprisingly enough, is that between a son and a mother who is really educating him sexually, and who encourages him to go out with girls.”  Time magazine even referred to Pomeroy as being part of the “pro-incest lobby.”

Hugh Hefner and/or Playboy provided the seed money for its founding, likely fueled by the goal of reshaping sexual norms in society and thus ensuring a future business model over philanthropy.  SIECUS continues to receive money from the sex industry.  For example, this September 2020 SIECUS webinar on “Consent, Sex Positivity, and Pleasure: Filling the gaps in sex education” was proudly sponsored by sex-toy maker, b-Vibe.  

Yes, a fine, upstanding organization… that is responsible for the sex education of your child in school.  No joke.

FALSE.  In 2019, SIECUS abandoned this title and without changing their acronym (SIECUS), officially rebranded to “Sex Ed for Social Change.”  From their press release, dated 12 November 2019:

“Today, SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change, formerly known as the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States, launched an [sic] rebrand to highlight the group’s new and evolving direction. The effort follows a multitude of organizational initiatives that highlight sex education as a vehicle for social change.”  

That’s right, not sex ed for health, education, or information, but to change society.

FALSE.  CSE focuses on how to “give consent.”  CSE instructors will often have students role play situations in front of other students, mimicking awkward or erotic sexual situations and instructing students on how to give consent, rather than how to say no.  This reinforces a culture of “giving permission” and ignores the fact these minors are not at the actual age of consent (which is 18).  If you want a preview of where this is going, California just passed SB145, a bill that reduces penalties for adults who have oral and anal sex with “willing” children, thus lowering the age of consent.  Sick.

UNLIKELY.  MRI and fMRI technology has revealed that the adolescent brain undergoes a massive restructuring at the onset of puberty, the magnitude of which is difficult to fathom.  The prefrontal cortex, responsible for judgment, reason and decision making, is the last to develop, possibly not complete until the mid-twenties.  While our minor teens are certainly growing and maturing, we cannot rationally expect them to exercise the decision making capability of adults.  CSE tells students “Only you know when you’re ready for sex (amongst other things)” but the fact is there’s a pretty good reason that car rental agencies jack up the prices for anyone under the age of 26.  That’s why parents must continue to parent well into the teenage years; their teens need fail-safes in place in the event of stupid decisions.  Do not entrust Planned Parenthood as your teen’s failsafe. 

“The normal adolescent brain is far from mature or operating at full adult capacity.  The physiological structure of the adolescent brain is similar therefore to the manifestation of mental disability within an adult brain.” -Daniel Weinberger, MD, NIMH. 

FALSE.  Children in some states are given access to contraceptives and birth control pills without parent knowledge.  Planned Parenthood even distributed leaflets to California high school students, encouraging them to “access our confidential services” at their clinic in exchange for a “free gift card.”  Students over age 12 are encouraged to seek their own health care providers separate from their parents and to have sex-related discussions with that provider when parents are out of the room.  In California, parental rights have been so marginalized that a parent must seek permission from their minor child (age 12 and over) to access their child’s medical records.  Furthermore, most parents would never guess their child is being given resources on anal sex, sex toys, sexual experimentation, eroticism, and pornography.

FALSE.  CSE educators would like to teach your kindergartener or even preschooler about their sexuality.  The earlier the better, because as stated by an FoSE spokesperson in this video excerpt from CSE 102:

“…the early grades may in fact be the best time to introduce topics related to sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, gender equality, and social justice related to the LGBTQ+ community before hetero-normative and CIS normative values and assumptions become more deeply ingrained and less mutable.” 

In other words, they want to access your child’s mind while they are more malleable and before you as the parent can shape their worldview. 

FALSE.  Data shows that the advent of sex ed only increased the incidence of teenage sex through the early 1990s.  From AEI.org:

“Teenagers were not only more likely to become sexually active in the 1970s and 1980s, but they were experiencing sex at younger ages. As mentioned above, the percentage of 18-year-old females who had had sex increased about 75 percent between 1970 and 1988. The percentage of sexually experienced 15-year-old females, however, multiplied more than fivefold during the same period, from less than 5 percent to 26 percent.” 

As of 2009, 62% of graduating seniors have had sexual intercourse.  Supposedly, the numbers have been leveling off in recent years.  It turns out when you suggest certain activities to teenagers, they are more likely to try it.  (Well, duh.  Remember the Tide pod challenge?)

FALSE.  The Left would be thrilled if this were true, but it simply isn’t.  Check out this graphic that might surprise you: hands down, the most powerful influence on teenage sexual decision making is PARENTS.

This is what fuels the Left’s at-all-costs battle against parental rights.  Parents, your kid wants to hear from you, and their listening, even if they don’t want you to know they are.  By the way, not one of these organizations is putting the well-being of your child first.  That’s your domain.

FALSE.  CSE perpetuates the idea that men and women are the same, apart from some “minor physical differences” that could be covered by a bikini.  They teach our girls that gender is a “social construct,” to not adhere to “gender stereotypes,” and thus that sex is to be enjoyed by men and women in the same way.  We adults, especially married ones, know this to be patently false.  Science backs us up.  Enter pheromones and hormones.

Let’s start with pheromones, defined as “chemicals produced by one individual and perceived by the second individual of the same species, triggering a specific reaction or behavior.”  Unlike hormones, pheromones travel outside the body (i.e. the scent of a man) and are used in this way throughout the animal kingdom.  The University of Pennsylvania conducted a fascinating study on this, placing male perspiration on the upper lip of female test subjects, who did not know what the substance was.  The results:  male pheromones sped up female ovulation, altered female hormones, and reduced tension.  To put it another way, the mere proximity of a male sends signals to the female brain:  relax and prepare for reproduction. 

Hormones:  women, who neuroscience says are far more hormonal beings (did you need me to tell you that?), are very much affected by Oxytocin, also known as “the cuddle hormone.”  This neurochemical in the female brain is active (even dominant) during courtship, sex, childbirth, and breastfeeding.  It activates the brain’s reward center and deactivates critical assessment (think “love is blind”).  Oxytocin is activated by kissing or even a long embrace, fueling female attachment to whomever is on the other end of those activities.

Needless to say, teenage males are NOT wired this way.  Telling teenage girls that sex is experienced the same way for both men and women is a reckless lie unsupported by science.  And then these girls wonder what’s wrong with them when they form attachments that are not returned by their male partner.  The girl is left feeling dejected, defective and depressed, driving further risky behavior. 

 This does not sound like female empowerment.

FALSE.  The Father of CSE is Dr. Alfred Kinsey, a zoologist trained in the classification of wasps.  He was also a sexual deviant who sought to normalize his tastes and activities by founding the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research at the University of Indiana and authoring two books:  “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male” (1948) and “Sexual Behavior of the Human Female” (1953).  His books were widely acclaimed and put a saintly countenance of him amidst some lovely roses on the 1953 cover of Time magazine.  There’s no doubt his books shocked the nation, alleging far more sexual activities outside the norms than anyone would have suspected.  He also alleged that children are sexual from birth, an idea that SIECUS and PP continue to cling to today.

But who was Alfred Kinsey, and how did he get this research?  The following information was pulled from Dr. Miriam Grossman’s book, “You’re Teaching My Child What,” which provides multiple citations for this information.

Alfred Kinsey was a sexual deviant, obsessed with sadomasochism and abhorrent of sexual abstinence.  He not only approved of, but also sanctioned pedophilia, incest, bestiality, and pansexuality.  He experienced pleasure by inserting foreign objects – straws, pipe cleaners, pencils, and toothbrushes – into his penis.  He climbed in to a bathtub and removed his own foreskin with a pocketknife, and even suspended himself in the air by a rope tied around his scrotum.  Near the end of his life, he landed himself in the hospital after traumatizing his genitals, requiring months to recover.  There are some rumors that this type of injury is what lead to his death at age 62.

Additional facts about Alfred Kinsey:

• He set up a recording studio in his attic to film sexual encounters with his wife and among members of his “inner circle” – staff members, graduate students, and their wives.
• His primary interest was sadomasochistic behavior for which outsiders were invited to star in his attic performances.
• He was a sexual exhibitionist: “Kinsey seldom passed up an opportunity to show off his genitals and demonstrate masturbatory techniques to staff members.”
• Kinsey favored adult-child sexual contact (what we might call pedophilia) and considered adults who engaged in it “much maligned.” Consider today’s trend towards rebranding pedophiles to “Minor Attracted Persons.”
• For his “research,” he interviewed jailed pedophiles and sex offenders and trolled the seedier parts of Chicago and NYC for male prostitutes, transvestites, sadists, and masochists.

As for his research, just how did he get data for the now infamous Table 34, which documents the orgasms of children aged 5 months to 14 years old?

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According to Kinsey, these conclusions were based on statistics gathered from mysterious sources such as “Mr. X” and other “trained observers” who sent him reports about their sexual activities with children. These “trained observers” were later discovered to be pedophiles. “Mr. X” turned out to be Rex King, a man known to have been responsible for the rapes of hundreds of children. [source]

“Another consort was the notorious former Nazi and pedophile Dr. Fritz Von Balluseck. Von Balluseck contributed data about his child abuse to Kinsey’s research database during the twenty-year period of 1936-1956. Von Balluseck was on trial in Germany for the rape and murder of a ten-year-old girl when correspondence from Kinsey was found in his possession. Kinsey’s letters encouraged Von Balluseck to continue sending the results of his “research” on children and even warned him to ‘be careful.’”  [source]

This correspondence and others suggest that Kinsey and his “researchers” likely knew their “experiments” on children were criminal.  It was not until Dr. Judith Reisman blew the whistle on Table 34 in the 1980s were Kinsey’s methods and conclusions questioned and debunked.  Still, that did not stop the CSE movement continuing forward on the sexual premises advanced by Alfred Kinsey. 

You can find out more about the children to Table 34 here or read a survivor letter here.

FALSE, FALSE, DEBATABLE. 

1. False. The pushers of CSE love to use the words “age appropriate” when selling their curriculum.It sounds responsible, but there is no objective classification or legal definition of “age appropriate.”  And so they use it at will to describe curriculums that encourage anal sex, kink, sex toys, and pornography in the classroom.
2. False. While one can technically say they give “medically accurate” information, this accuracy often entails lies of omission, and is .How so?
   • Well, they present anal sex as a great alternative to vaginal sex with less risk of pregnancy or STI/STDs, but they fail to address the risk factors associated with this act. Former US Surgeon General C. Everett Koop stated “Condoms provide some protection, but anal intercourse is simply too dangerous to practice,” and the NIH stated, “HIV/AIDS can be sexually transmitted by anal, penile-vaginal and oral intercourse.  The highest rate of transmission is through anal exposure,” but CSE mentions none of this. 
   • A 2005 video called “Protect Yourself” stated that condoms provide 98 percent protection against pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, and implied this near perfect level of protection was effective during anal, oral and vaginal sex. This information was skewed at best, false at worst.  The tireless work of infectious disease expert Dr. Ruth Jacobs forced the schools in Montgomery County, MD, to discontinue the use of the video.  How many teens are misled about their true risk factors due to faulty presentations such as these?
   • Or they may tell girls that should they contract syphilis, all they have to do is take an antibiotic and be done with it. They fail to mention that if not treated within days/weeks of contraction, syphilis can lead to sterility.  They lead students to believe that condom use protects them from all STIs/STDs, yet the data shows this to be clearly false. 
   • They may mention the HPV vaccine but omit that it only addresses 9 out of the 14 high-risk strains (of the 100+ total strains) of the virus, which can lead to cervical, anal, vulvar, vaginal, and oropharyngeal (throat) cancer.
   • They do not mention the “T Zone” of an adolescent girl’s cervix which is not fully matured until adulthood and makes her far more vulnerable to STI/STD.
   • They promote the use of pornography as an example of sexual activity to emulate, but they do not mention the brain-altering effects that it has, the rampant addiction to pornography amongst teens, or that it leads to an epidemic of teen boys with erectile dysfunction.
3. Debatable. While some of what they do present may be technically accurate, if incomplete, they also teach that “gender” is a social construct and gender fluidity is perfectly normal.They instruct students that their true gender identity may be different than their “gender assigned at birth” via such debunked graphics as “The Genderbread Person,” “The Gender Bear,” and “The Gender Unicorn.”  They tell students that “gender is a spectrum” and then roll their eyes at “CIS heteronormativity.”  This is not only medically inaccurate, but ludicrous, and in some cases, irreversibly damages the students receiving this “instruction.”

FALSE.  In 2008, the CDC published press release that shocked the nation:

“Chicago (March 11, 2008) – A CDC study released today estimates that one in four (26 percent) young women between the ages of 14 and 19 in the United States – or 3.2 million teenage girls – is infected with at least one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases (human papillomavirus (HPV), chlamydia, herpes simplex virus, and trichomoniasis). The study…is the first to examine the combined national prevalence of common STDs among adolescent women in the United States, and provides the clearest picture to date of the overall STD burden in adolescent women.”

There was enough shock and horror over this statistic to prompt a statement from SIECUS, however instead of self-reflection on their own promotion of risky behaviors to children, they doubled down, saying: (emphasis added)

“These results should motivate policymakers, both on the state and federal levels, to redouble their efforts to bring responsible, comprehensive sexuality education to young people.  Rather than continuing to pour more resources into failed abstinence-only-until-marriage programs, our leaders in government must deal with the hard truth that young people have sex, and yet are woefully ignorant of how to protect themselves from disease.  Only when we have armed young people with knowledge about pregnancy- and disease- prevention methods will we begin to see declines in these staggering figures.”

Additionally, HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) appears to be the silent epidemic amongst teenagers. While the AIDS virus is no longer a risk factor, HIV is still a devastating and life-altering diagnosis, especially for a teenager who “thought they were doing everything right,” per their CSE instructor.  In 2018, the CDC reported that youth 13 to 24 years of age accounted for 21% of all new HIV diagnoses in the United States and dependent areas.  Most adolescents aren’t even aware they’ve been infected, and so they spread the disease readily as CSE encourages them to “experiment” with partners, positions, genders, and toys. Does CSE instruct young girls that they will pass this virus on to their unborn children?

HPV (Human Papillomavirus) is so prevalent now that Johns Hopkins Director of the Center for Cervical Dysplasia, Connie Trimble, M.D., says rather dismissively “Anyone who’s ever had sex may have been exposed to HPV” and an estimated 4 out of 5 will get the virus.  So girls are just supposed to accept that they will contract HPV, which is permanent, incurable, can cause genital warts and carries risk factors for cervical, vaginal, anal, vulvar, and oropharnygeal (throat) cancer. 

 CSE does not seem to be doing much  “good” for American youth.

FALSE.  The top of the CSE food chain is a myriad of international organizations, including the United Nations, the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Economic Forum (WEF), the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), and the World Association for Sexual Health (WAS).  Their goal is CSE in every country of the world, pushing “sex equity”, “sexual justice” and “sexual rights” towards an end goal of global “sexual citizenship.”  Whatever that means.

FALSE.  Just like every left ideology, CSE continues to evolve and may be presented under a myriad of innocuous titles:  Sex Ed, Sex Education, Family Life Education, Sexual Health Education, and Health Education.

FALSE.  They are not even called the same thing anymore.  Notice the subtle word change (it’s always subtle with the Left, isn’t it?) to Comprehensive SEXUALITY Education.  According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) states “Sexuality is a central aspect of being human throughout life and encompasses sex, gender identities and roles, sexual orientation, eroticism, pleasure, intimacy and reproduction.” (WHO, 2006) and as covered in Williamson County, TN’s previous CSE102.  This opens the door for these organizations to teach children any number of sex-related topics, including kink and porn, under the banner of “eroticism and pleasure.”  In fact, “sexual pleasure shall be integrated into education” as a fundamental part of “sexual rights.”  Sexual pleasure is further defined as “the physical and/or psychological satisfaction and enjoyment derived from solitary or shared erotic experiences, including thoughts, dreams and autoeroticism.”(per the Global Advisory Board for Sexual Health and Well Being, 2016).  It’s not just about “the birds and the bees and staying safe from STD’s” anymore.