SEX EDUCATION

PLANNED PARENTHOOD SUES HHS OVER TEEN PREGNANCY ABSTINENCE-ONLY REQUIREMENTS. A coalition of local governments and organizations filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration’s funding changes to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention program, objecting to the incorporation of abstinence-only education and the reported lack of focus on LGBT-identifying individuals. Read more here.

COMPREHENSIVE SEX EDUCATION COMING SOON TO INDIA’S SCHOOLS, GOVERNMENT TELLS SUPREME COURT. The long-standing taboo around sex education is finally set to end in India, with the subject poised to become a formal part of school curriculum. Read more here.

SEXUALITY AND GENDER TEACHING IN WELSH SCHOOLS IS INCONSISTENT, WATCHDOG SAYS. A report on relationships and sexuality education found that many teachers lacked confidence in covering some of the more “complex or sensitive” themes and need more specialist training. Read more here.

TRUMP WILL END $67 MILLION IN GRANTS THAT FUND ‘SEXUALLY EXPLICIT’ SEX ED. President Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services plans to terminate $67 million of teenage pregnancy prevention grants to defund “sexually explicit” curricula. Read more here.

UK: MAKE SEX EDUCATION MANDATORY, SAYS LABOUR MP. Relationships and sex education for 16-18-year-olds could be made mandatory in a bid to prevent violence against women and girls. Read more here.

THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS’ SEX ED CURRICULUM CALLS MALES ‘PERSON WITH A PENIS.’ The “Sexual Health Education and Sexual Safety Lessons” curriculum used by DC public schools teaches elementary students to refer to the male and female reproductive systems as “Person with a Penis” or “Uterus,” advocates for abortion as a choice when discussing pregnancy, and promotes the websites of Planned Parenthood and the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance. Read more here.

STANFORD STUDENT LEADERS MIFFED MANDATORY ‘NARRATIVE-BASED’ SEX ED PROGRAM FOR NEW STUDENTS NOW OPTIONAL. Student leaders at Stanford University are upset that a decade-old, student-developed program intended to help freshmen “intentionally develop their sexual citizenship” is no longer a requirement at New Student Orientation. Read more here.

ITALY MAKES PARENTAL CONSENT COMPULSORY FOR SEX EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS. Italy’s senate on Thursday gave final approval to a law requiring schools to obtain written parental consent before delivering any sex or relationship education to pupils, in a vote that passed with 78 votes in favour and 38 against. Read more here.

UNIVERSITY TOSSES SEXUALITY TEXTBOOK AFTER STUDENT COMPLAINS OF PORNOGRAPHIC CONTENT. The University of Nebraska at Kearney is dropping a widely used sexuality textbook from its curriculum after an investigation corroborated a student’s complaint that it contained pornographic images. Read more here.

‘INAPPROPRIATE’ SEX EDUCATION REMAINS PERVASIVE ACROSS THE WEST’S CLASSROOMS. Legal advocacy group ADF International has warned that inappropriate and potentially harmful sex education is being pushed on children by worldwide bodies such as the United Nations. Read more here.

GERMAN CHILDREN GIVEN ‘INCLUSIVE BROTHEL’ ASSIGNMENT AS PART OF ‘SEXUAL EDUCATION OF DIVERSITY’ CLASS. Children in a sex education class in Germany were instructed to design a brothel “for everyone” as part of their course, sparking backlash from parents and even other students at the school. Read more here.

A NATION DECEIVED: COMPREHENSIVE SEX ED USES GROOMING AND PROPAGANDA TO SHAPE MINDS. Comprehensive sex education utilizes sexual attitude reassessment or exposing children and adults to sexualized and pornographic material, which grooms them sexually and creates “trauma bonding.” Read more here.

RESTRICTING EXTREME PORN COULD AID SEX EDUCATION, PROFESSOR SAYS. Restricting the availability of extreme pornography could improve sex education and understanding around consent, Durham University law professor Clare McGlynn warns, saying widely available extreme content normalizes sexual violence. Read more here.

STATE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA ADMITS WRONGDOING TOWARD CHILD OVER ‘DISTURBING’ SEX-ED CONTENT. The Australian Department of Education has admitted in legal proceedings that it breached its duty of care toward a 14-year-old girl after she was exposed to highly inappropriate and explicit sexual content at school, without parental knowledge or consent. Read more here.

‘I ACTED TO PROTECT MY CHILD’: AUSTRIAN MOM FINED FOR KEEPING SON FROM EXPLICIT SEX ED WORKSHOP. Michaela Vamos-Karandish was fined 110 euros ($128) for keeping her young son out of school for four days in March 2025 after an external sex education workshop was to take place. Read more here.

MP CALLS FOR LIFELONG SEX EDUCATION TO COMBAT ABUSE. MP Samantha Niblett, Labour MP for South Derbyshire, has issued a call for “lifelong sex education” in a bid to improve public health and safety, saying the ‘’Yes Sex Please, We’re British!’’ campaign focuses on education in understanding consent, respect and healthy relationships, with the aim of preventing abuse and violence. Read more here.

POLAND MAKES CONTROVERSIAL SEX ED PROGRAM MANDATORY DESPITE BOYCOTT. Poland’s government has made a controversial school “health education” program compulsory, despite widespread parental boycotts and criticism that it smuggles in explicit sex education. Read more here.

ILLINOIS CONGRESSWOMAN AIMS TO DEFUND EXPLICIT CONTENT IN SCHOOLS. Rep. Mary Miller, Rep-Ill., has introduced a bill, titled “Stop Sexualization of Children Act,” to prohibit federal dollars from funding sexually explicit content and conduct or themes of transgenderism and gender dysphoria in schools. Read more here.

SPANISH FAR LEFT PUSHES FORCED SEXUALIZATION OF MINORS. The Plenary of the Spanish Congress will debate this week a non-binding motion presented by the far-left party Podemos that seeks to implement mandatory comprehensive sex education at all stages of the education system, from Early Childhood Education—starting at the age of three— through Baccalaureate and Vocational Training. Read more here.

DOJ INVESTIGATING THREE MICHIGAN SCHOOL DISTRICTS OVER SEX ED, HEALTH COURSE CONTENT. The Detroit Public Schools Community District, Godfrey-Lee Public Schools, and the Lansing Public School District are being investigated by the DOJ to see if they are teaching any content in pre-k through 12th grade classes relating to sexual orientation and gender ideology, and, if they are, whether the schools notified parents of their right to opt their children out of these lessons. Read more here.

PRO-ABORTION SEX ED LEADER IS OBSESSIVELY TRACKING ‘BABY OLIVIA’ BILLS. Angered that public school students might learn about the natural, biological result of heterosexual sex, the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States has launched a “legislation tracker” to actively oppose “Baby Olivia” bills that require anatomy ultrasounds to be shown to students. Read more here.

GHANA’S REVISED NACCA SEXUALITY GUIDELINES WORSE THAN WITHDRAWN VERSION. Old Tafo Member of Parliament, Vincent Ekow Assafuah, has criticised the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NaCCA), saying a revised teachers’ manual on sexuality education is more problematic than the version withdrawn after public backlash. Read more here.

CALIFORNIA PARENT SOUNDS ALARM OVER SACRAMENTO AREA HIGH SCHOOL GENDER LESSONS. The curriculum from Woodland Unified School District, located in the Sacramento area, which focuses on “privilege,” oppression, and a litany of gender concepts. Read more here.

LEFTIST OUTCRY IN ITALY OVER SEX-ED BILL CRACKING DOWN ON GENDER IDEOLOGY. New legislation passed by Italy’s lower house of parliament pushing back against “gender ideology and the woke bubble” is generating a meltdown on the left. Read more here.

ADELAIDE MOTHER TO TAKE LEGAL ACTION AFTER TEEN DAUGHTER EXPOSED TO ‘DISTURBING’ SEX ED CONTENT. Following a presentation that exposed Year 9 girls – including her daughter, aged 14 – to highly inappropriate and explicit sexual content without parental knowledge or consent, Nicki Gaylard has withdrawn her children from school in Adelaide, Australia and is ready to take legal action against the Department for Education. Read more here.

WIN FOR CHILDREN: GOVERNMENTS VOTE TO REMOVE ‘SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH’ LANGUAGE. In the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly, 48 governments voted in favor of removing “sexual and reproductive health” language from a resolution on children. Read more here.

GENOA SEX EDUCATION INITIATIVE TO BE IMPOSED ON CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS THREE. Genoa’s leftist administration has announced the first sexual and emotional education program in municipal preschools, which begins in January 2026 with 300 children aged three to five in four municipal nurseries: Santa Sofia, Firpo and Mazzini in Sampierdarena, and Monticelli in Lagaccio. Read more here.

MICHIGAN’S NEW EDUCATION STANDARDS WILL TEACH GENDER IDEOLOGY TO 11-YEAR-OLDS. The Michigan Department of Education announced the first update to the state’s Health Education Standards Guidelines, which call for exposing children as young as 11 to discussion of sexual orientation, gender identity, and sexual activity. Read more here.

NEW DOCUMENTARY LINKS RISE IN GERMAN DAYCARE SEX ABUSE TO WHO GUIDELINES SHAPED BY PEDOPHILIA. A new film argues WHO sex ed guidelines incorporating pedophilic concepts of sexual exploration to kids correlates with a nationwide rise in child sexual assaults in daycare centers. Read more here.

JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP DIRECTIVE TO CUT ‘GENDER IDEOLOGY’ FROM SEX ED: DOJ. A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction to block White House attempts to defund certain state sexual education programs that included affirming gender ideology. Read more here.

MICHIGAN GOP LAWMAKERS PUSH TO REJECT NEW HEALTH EDUCATION STANDARDS OVER GENDER, SEX ED TERMS. Several Republican members of the state House announced the introduction of a resolution asking the Michigan Department of Education and State Board of Education to reject the proposed standards promoting gender identity and sexual orientation. Read more here.

OREGON JUDGE LIKELY TO BLOCK FEDERAL CUTS TO INCLUSIVE SEX EDUCATION FUNDING. A federal judge in Oregon said she’s leaning toward blocking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from pulling funding for sex education that includes references to diverse gender identities. Read more here.

PARENT OPT-OUT, LOCAL CONTROL, AND TRANSPARENCY WOULD REMAIN UNDER UPDATED SEX ED STANDARDS. Michigan parents would continue to have the chance to opt their children out of any sex education instruction in public schools, and local control of how or if school districts use the health/sex education standards would remain in place under proposed updates to the state’s health education standards. Read more here.

REVISED CHINESE LAW SPARKS DEBATE ON SEXUALITY EDUCATION. Minutes before Professor Liu Wenli was set to speak in a webinar on the development of sex education in China, she learned that the country’s top legislative body had passed an amendment making sex education mandatory starting next year with the amended law mandating inclusion in school syllabuses of “sex education.” Read more here.

ALABAMA SENATOR PREFILES BILL THAT WOULD CHANGE SEXUAL EDUCATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Sen. Shay Shelnutt, a Republican member of the Alabama Senate, is refiling a bill that would change some provisions to sexual education in public K-12 schools by requiring schools to “exclusively teach sexual risk avoidance and encourage abstinence from all sexual activity.” Read more here.

16 STATES SUE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION OVER THREATS TO PULL FUNDING FOR SEX ED ON GENDER DIVERSITY. Sixteen states and the District of Columbia filed suit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, alleging that its threats to pull sexual education funding over curricula mentioning diverse gender identities is a violation of federal law. Read more here.

MISSISSIPPI’S TEEN BIRTHS CUT IN HALF SINCE TEACHING ABSTINENCE BEGAN. Mississippi’s teen births have decreased from 51 per 1,000 women to 25 per 1,000 since 2011 when abstinence began, though both figures were highest in the nation. Read more here.

VERMONT TO KEEP GENDER TERMS IN SEX ED PROGRAM DESPITE TRUMP THREAT. Vermont officials plan to sidestep a Trump administration demand for states to nix “gender ideology” from a youth sex education program, opting to use state money to counter the threatened loss of over half a million federal dollars. Read more here.

MICHIGAN DEPT. OF ED PROPOSES OVERHAUL OF HEALTH AND SEX EDUCATION STANDARDS. The Michigan Department of Education is accepting public comment on a significant overhaul of the state’s health standards, which include the state’s standards for sex education, including topics on sexual health, substance abuse, mental and emotional health, personal health and community health. Read more here.

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION PUSHES STATES TO CUT LGBTQ+ TOPICS FROM SEX ED. President Donald Trump’s administration has told 40 states to eliminate gender ideology lessons that focus on LGBTQ+ issues from federally funded sexual education materials or they will lose funding. Read more here.

POLISH BISHOPS URGE PARENTS TO BOYCOTT NEW SEX ED CLASSES. Poland’s Catholic Church has appealed to parents not to allow their children to take part in a new school program that will include anti-family elements of sex education and gender ideology, which will “morally corrupt children.” Read more here.

ONE OF TOP U.S. SEX ED LEADERS IS UNHAPPY THAT STATES CAN NOW PROTECT KIDS FROM PORN. The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States, part of a coalition that favors sexually graphic sex education standards for minors, is upset about a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that allows states to limit minors’ access to online pornography. Read more here.

TRUMP ADMIN TELLS CALIFORNIA TO END GENDER IDEOLOGY IN ‘SEX-ED’ OR LOSE FEDERAL FUNDING. The Trump administration is putting the state of California on notice to remove material on “gender identity” from its sex-education curriculum or risk losing more than $12.3 million in federal education grants. Read more here.

HHS GIVES CALIFORNIA DEADLINE TO OVERHAUL FEDERALLY FUNDED SEX ED PROGRAM ‘INDOCTRINATING’ KIDS. The Trump administration is giving California’s federally funded sex education program 60 days to remove all references to gender identity or face potential termination of its funding. Read more here.

INDIANA AND IOWA GOVERNORS SIGN BILLS REQUIRING PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS. Indiana Governor Mike Braun and Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds have both signed bills requiring children in the states’ public schools who participate in sex ed classes to learn about human prenatal development. Read more here.

DEPAUL UNIVERSITY HOSTS X-RATED ‘SEX ED’ EVENT SPONSORED BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD CHAPTER. DePaul University held a “BDSM Sex Ed” event in conjunction with a campus chapter of activists for abortion giant Planned Parenthood. Read more here.

TAXPAYER-FUNDED SEX ED GROUP STARTS ‘CLUB’ TELLING TEENS TO REJECT PRO-LIFE IDEOLOGY. Planned Parenthood-backed sex ed group Advocates for Youth has launched a revamp and rebranding of its sex ed with a ‘club’ warning teens that “pro-life” individuals are “red flags” who hold unscientific views. Read more here.

PLANNED PARENTHOOD ANNUAL REPORT SHOWS MORE SPENDING ON ITS EXPLICIT ‘SEX ED.’ Planned Parenthood’s most recent annual report, which revealed a record-breaking 400k abortions for 2023-24, also shows a significant increase in spending on programs related to sex education. Read more here.

COLORADO UNIVERSITY CANCELS ‘SEX ED SUMMER CAMP’ FOR KIDS. The University of Colorado sought to partner with an abortion clinic to host a now-canceled “Sex Ed Summer Camp” for incoming 5^th– through 8^th-grade students that was going to focus on “bodies beyond the binary” and “gender and sexuality.” Read more here.

LAST-MINUTE CHANGE TO INDIANA HUMAN SEXUALITY BILL REMOVES NEED TO TEACH CONSENT. A last-minute change to an Indiana General Assembly bill on human sexuality instruction in Indiana’s K-12 schools eliminates a proposed requirement that such instruction teach the importance of consent to sexual activity. Read more here.

MASSACHUSETTS TEACHERS REFUSE TO LET MIDDLE SCHOOLERS OPT OUT OF GRAPHIC SEX CLASS. Middle school students in Burlington, Massachusetts were asked in a graphic survey if they’ve ever had sex or used vaginal sex toys and how they describe their sexual orientation, angering parents of the children. Read more here.

SEX EDUCATION REMOVALS QUADRUPLE IN THE WAKE OF SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT GENDER REFORM DEBATE. The number of children being pulled out of school sex education lessons more than quadrupled in the wake of the gender reform debate. A number of councils also received official complaints from parents for including transgender issues in lessons. Read more here.

FRENCH SCHOOLS TO TEACH SEX EDUCATION. French schools will implement mandatory sex education classes starting September 2025, bringing a significant change in the country’s educational approach. Read more here.

PERUVIAN BISHOP DENOUNCES ‘DIRECT ATTACK’ ON CHURCH’S FREEDOM OF SPEECH. The bishop of Cajamarca, Peru, has denounced a “direct attack” on the Catholic Church’s freedom of speech by the LGBTQ+ community, which accuses the Church of the “alleged crime of discrimination” for a talk warning of the consequences of “Comprehensive Sexual Education” in Peru. Read more here.

PHILIPPINE SEX EDUCATION CURRICULUM UNDER SENATE SCRUTINY AMID CONSERVATIVE PUSHBACK. The Philippine Senate Committee on Basic Education said it will conduct an inquiry into the Department of Education’s implementation of comprehensive sexual education amid concerns from conservative quarters about program’s woke approach. Read more here.