Love the updates! Thanks for keeping us in the loop MDJ!

Thanks for the update...my head was about to explode.

wow, i was dropping by this video to show a friend how expert supplemental circulum can disrespected and disreguarded in the education system. And I didn't expect such a positive update. thank you for adding this. brightened my day and big get fucked to Maggie and April

I just want to say that, as a Christian mother, I use your videos and information to educate MY kids on sex ed. Many of your videos have helped a lot to anticipate the questions they will ask or the questions they will be afraid to ask and I appreciate what you are doing. I love having this available to me, to pick and choose videos that are age appropriate to each of my three daughters. I'm able to teach my kids our own family morals/values (sex AFTER marriage is ideal, for example simply because sex does create an emotional bond and could always result in pregnancy) while giving them information for whatever decisions they make for themselves. My kids are not, and should not be completely oblivious to all other paths and lifestyles, even my youngest at age 8. I cannot believe that they completely removed all of your videos from being used. Sorry, a bit of a rant, but it's frustrating. Honestly, sex ed SHOULD start at home and these sex ed classes shouldn't be a complete Suprise to them. If you are open with them at an early age, they will already be familiar with the subject and open to asking questions. Thanks so much again @mamadoctorjones We don't all have to agree on every little thing to educate on factual information that is a necessity to a child's development.

I rise to address the Meeting and say that Friend @@lindsey4178 speaks my mind in this matter.

Or only hear religious views which are always biased.

It should be taught in the home. But I'm so glad that schools can provide other safe adults for kids to go to on these topics! For both the kids with present parents and without.

what they mean is "this shouldn't be taught at all." because they know none of the people who believe it "should be taught in the home" are actually going to teach it in the home.

Right or parents who weren't taught this themselves

I grew up in a strict religious household. I knew NOTHING and it was a serious detriment. I wish I had access to Dr. Jones. I was not taught at home or school. I was terrified.

Please email them or something this is soooo painful to watch

Signed!

Why does anatomically correct terminology and facts offend small town twits? These people are as dumb as dirt and my son and daughter have been pointed to your videos. Keep it up Mama!

Oh my goodness I can’t believe this is actually happening smh

Can you not sue these people!!? This is slander and totally undermines your credentials!!! This is shocking!!!!

I remember reading a story from a man who uses a wheelchair about how he was made to leave the room when they taught sex ed at his school. How dehumanizing can you get?

​@@sheilaross1449 an easy discrimination lawsuit btw. But I guess that man was abused this way in like 80s. Nor because I think this never happens now, just assuming from the fact that you said man and not boy.

I consider most United Statesians special ed

the rage i felt when she said that ignorant and evil shit. i wanted to slap her thru the phone soooo bad. the people most vulnerable to abuse need to be educated the most!! they deserve to know.

​@@drew8305LOL. Sad, but true.

Probably bc no one taught them about sex when they were children, or that they were explicitly taught NOT to talk about it 🙃

For sure!!!

Well most of them probably have a social security number between 1 and 30 so lol

School boards are not teachers. It's another flaw in the system.

For sure!

I can't say this enough. The alternative is adult entertainment or figuring it out yourself.. yeah, my experience is that doesn't work very well at all.

Preach Veronica! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

I had to draw a uterus and ovaries and name all the parts with arrows on my 3th grade (that's high school Freshman in the USA) biology exam. I was stressed, studied all evening 'til well into the night, under pressure, and tired. There was nothing glorious about it. I'm from Belgium btw and that exam what surprisingly difficult, detailed, and neutral.

It's when people think that learning about your body and reproductive system is " glorifying sex" then you know they have some issues and might be sexually oppressed or ashamed. Kinda sad really.

@@amberlytheharpyqueen or they are perverts. There's nothing wrong with her videos

I'm going to repeat what I said to someone else on this topic. I don't mean to add fuel to your fire, but I'm 100% on your side here: I worked for 14 years in disability services. First off, the statistics on persons with disabilities being sexually assaulted/abused is much higher than the general public. Second off, they often are left in a position where they do not know how to tell, or who to tell. and they have histories of not being believed, so often will remain quiet. Lastly, often their abuser is someone caring for them, so they are afraid to report because of retaliation and/or if their care taker is fired they may be afraid of no one to care for them. All the issues around this are so complex and too much to discuss in this comment. Oh, and I'm going to add that in the case of an individual who is non verbal or has limited verbal skills all the issues I just mentioned get compounded exponentially. HOWEVER, I want to share one experience I had with this issue in my work. I was a day habilitation manager, and one day I was supporting a woman who lived in our residential programs. She was an older woman, and she grew up on a farm. She tried to tell me(I should not say "tried" she got her message to me) about being sexually abused by a house staff member. Her descriptions all related to her child hood farm. She had little clue about human sex, at the very least what the words were. This was so long ago I can't remember the exact words to quote her, so just call this "close" to what she said. She described her attacker as "he showed me a part only the man people have." She said "he tried to do what the horses do to make a baby." It was obvious enough, yet interviewing her to get more information on the assault for my report was difficult. What pissed me off was the house manager refused to believe it, and policy(plus state law) states we have to treat all such situations as true. I had to escalate the report above her head. As it was for a different department I never did hear the outcome, and honestly now that I'm thinking back the state should have interviewed me as part of an investigation and that never happened, so I'm concerned the ball got dropped. Sadly, I watched more than one investigation on this topic in my time in the field. It was one of the most heartbreaking things.

Same ones who end up with pregnant children, and are also often the ones who end up doing the impregnating. Conservatives dont like sexual education because a lot of them know that it teaches kids how to identify if theyre being groomed, and how to tell a trustworthy adult that theyre being sexually abused.

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Ok. So I do not defend April’s perspective AT ALL as an ASD adult woman and mother of four ASD kids (all adults now) her argument is the exact opposite of what you want for kids in “vulnerable populations” which are not just disabled and neurodiverse cultures. However, in her defense I think her concern was vulnerable middle school aged children with disabilities. And given the frequently required “inclusion” programs, I can see how this would be difficult as each and every different vulnerable middle schooler would require a custom sex Ed curriculum to have the information presented to them in a way accessible to each.

@@tinacayford7549 I was a special Ed para for our middle school and our ASD kids were in the room with everyone else. They asked well thought out questions, and ones that seemed to personal, we directed them to talk to their parent or the nurse when they had time. We split them up between the male and female sex for each video. We had a problem where one child had recorded the video and shared it on a private FB group chat after school, and that caused some problems for the kids that saw it and missed school. I guess what I'm trying to say is, technology is a part of our lives and its not the 70s anymore. We want them to learn from us and responsibly, not from a possible predator online or learn whats not true. You know how many men at my college ACTUALLY thought that if a women pees after sex, that clears out the semen?? Thats a problem! My Friends and I all have variations of the ASD and we need more time and have more questions to understand better, sure, but we didn't feel abnormal when we were included in those talks and the boys and girls appreciated our 'odd' questions back then. I've been the kid, been the teacher, and been the student on the receiving end of this and I think having it like this (both parents and the shared class) are important too.

Preach. I’m physically disabled w/ many conditions including RA & fibromyalgia (& I strongly think that I am autistic although I haven’t been officially diagnosed) and the degree to which I, a 32 year old woman, am constantly infantilized is absolutely infuriating. It’s ridiculous. I am married and still hear all the time about how not only I should see myself as lucky that my husband hasn’t left me yet because I’m unable to do everything I want/need to, but I should just have a hysterectomy instead of trying to preserve my fertility (I have a huge amount of fibroids & still want to have kids, so I’d need to have them removed) because I would be a “terrible mother” because I would need assistance with certain things sometimes depending on how bad my pain was on any given day. And that’s from my own family who has been abusive & neglectful of me since I was a baby. But somehow I wouldn’t make a good mother because I have physical disabilities, although I would never treat anyone, much less my own child, the way I was treated my whole life. 🙄😒 Unsurprisingly, I was never taught anything about sex ed, not given any answers when I had my first period, not told anything about sex (other than don’t do it), nothing at all. Thank goodness my dad was a computer engineer and I had internet access & my own computer in my room well before most people my age, so I searched for answers on my own, otherwise I don’t know what would have happened. I also managed to get on birth control for excruciating periods at 16, against my fathers will, because I was missing 3-5 days of school each month. Otherwise I probably would have quickly ended up pregnant at 18 when I first started having sex, since the relationship was extremely abusive and I couldn’t say no.

We don't just also have sex, even asexual disabled and neurodivergent folks like myself with no interest in fucking still have the sex organs and need to know how to care for them. How to clean the parts, what's abnormal discharge, how to avoid infections, et cetera.

These same people voted to end mandatory masking in schools. Some of us desperately want them voted out.

This is a perfect example where a lack of common sense is blatantly obvious in the people who get to decide what and how kids are taught. Alaska isn’t a high population state and has very limited access to medical providers who are “experts” meaning adults aren’t predisposed to accepting information from people with titles that would normally imply trust. Until people learn the difference between contraception and abortion there will be no way to achieve an accurate and easily understandable sex ed curriculum.

I'm pretty sure if any of them actually watched the content, they assumed every suggested video shown by YT was part of the original channel. They clearly do not understand YT. It's like having illiterate people weigh in on the reading curriculum. "What are all these demonic symbols?" "Uh, you mean the letters?"

well it sounds like a typical 'merica to me idk why its so surprising

It is not the school place to teach kids about sex. Schools need to teach reading, writing math, physics, earth science, zoology, oceanography, computer science, critical thinking etc.

My grandparent did not believe children should learn about sex until their wedding day. They did not even let my mother know what her period was, and hygiene around it. She had to learn from a college room mate what a pad was. This all messed her up good. My mother passed when I was 15. I had already gotten sex ed in school, but her parents took over raising us, and had my sister opted out of sex ed on "religious grounds". I'm honestly surprised this didn't mess her up as bad as our mother.

😂😂😂 yea right.

@@sheenakarr5572 Yes. That's reality. Endulging in fevered fantasy only serves to ENABLE CSA. As someone who worked directly in prevention and treatment of ACTUAL survivors, I can assure you that young children who are given no education about their bodies and boundaries are left completely vulnerable to the manipulations of older children and adults. YOU are empowering abusers of children through your smug ignorance. I hope you can think of a convincing excuse for that when you meet your maker, because it will need to be answered for.

@dianemurray6550 as a SURVIVOR of child sexual abuse I can tell you: 1. It is not the ONLY thing. 2. The abuse many times starts at such a young age that unless you want to start making episodes on Sesame Street, by age 10 one on 5 girls have already been molested if not raped. My issue was not with education tho, it was with the use of the word ONLY WAY ... the only time those words are 100 % true is with salvation through Jesus Christ.

@@sheenakarr5572 Mine started when I was a toddler. And children don't need to be much beyond the diaper stage to begin to learn about bodily autonomy and that areas covered by a swim suit are private. As not only a survivor, but also degreed in Early Childhood Development and experienced in the field, I can assure you that waiting until a child is 10 to introduce self-protecting concepts is needless and irresponsible.

@@sheenakarr5572 And sadly, Jesus Christ hasn't been effective in keeping children safe, even in their churches. Empowering and educating young children is a critical aspect of preventing CSA. Abusers prey on ignorance and naivete .

Probably he saw the past video and was furious with her because the. members of the school board should not be voting about the school matters because they are not qualified (I am not saying she is incorrect, but that I don't believe they were happy about it) and the "sexist assholes" comment because they refer to her as "OB-GYN Daniel Jones" instead of. "OB-GNY Dr Daniel Jones" 😂 I believe that the comment was directed to the reporters, or maybe to both, but even if she is right it's pretty clear that this dude wasn't going to be happy about it.

I teach in this district. He does that ALOT. He did it to Dr. Zink who was the forefront of providing us on Covid info at the beginning of the pandemic.

Misogyny in action

Agreed!

@@jaimeduncan6167 she recorded these two videos at the same time, so he couldn't have been responding to that

Well, but you can teach kids that they shouldn't run around while eating, because you can choke on the food. The only way to make sure your child doesn't choke on food, is to not let him eat.. But they will anyway. So it is better to teach them that is something great, but also when it is dangerous, And sex ED in kindergarten (Switzerland) is naming the bodyparts (arms penis, legs, throat, Vulva, fingers etc.) and learning to say no if you feel uncomfortable (an often use example is that you are allowed to say no to the aunt who always plasters a wet kiss on your cheek if you don't like that). If it doesn't feel right, it is ok to say no. This augmets the chance a kid can say no if an adult gives inappropriate touches, even if the adult says that this is normal. Of course an adult is still more powerfull and can further manipulate, but he has more fear, because a kid who voiced his discomfort is more likely to tell his parents. And if anything has happens, a kid who can say "my uncle touched my vulva" is more likely to get protection than a kid saying "my uncle touched me near the legs." If the kids ask about where the babies come from, it is something along the lines "parents loving eachother, the baby grows in mamas belly". But often it goes further, because often the kids with younger siblings know a lot more, and explain it to the others, and the teacher only corrects some inaccurancies. I think this is a good way, as a kid will explain it in a childfriendly way. In upper classes, it gets more and more secific, but also then: Sex education isn't so much about sex itself, but about bodyfuntions, selfesteem, social behaviour and health. And there are topics like how your body changes and so on. And a big difference in Europe vs. America is, that nakedness or your body in general doesn't directly mean sex. The US is pretty sexed up.

Thinking of the story about the one kindergarten boy who Heimliched his buddy in the bathroom when he was choking on Doritos (apparently easy to choke on, have heard a couple other stories of kids choking on them!). You see the boys, and the lifesaver is roughly twice the size of his little choking buddy, and it all makes sense and was also so heartwarming! 🥰 But yeah, even kindergarteners need enough information to stay safe and healthy! 👍

I don't think it is a good comparison because choking on food doesn't feel good. But comparing these videos to playboy isn't a good comparison either.

Its almost like they want to groom kids so they are easy to abuse... oh wait

I was in a special ad for most of my life, and I went to a school that didn’t teach sex Ed to special ed student. I didn’t have any sex education until college. Luckily for me I didn’t really start to experience any sexual urges until I was in my 20s. But that’s not the same for everybody. I’m sure there are a lot of disabled students to do experience sexual urges when they are in their teens, and therefore should have access to sex education.

@@palesgensler3099 Something that is overlooked about sex ed is that it doesnt just cover the sex part. It talks about things like consent. The concept of consent is something extremely important that should be taught at a very young age. By baring special ed kids from having sex ed, you are also not teaching them explicitly about consent. Which I think is especially dangerous for such a vulnerable group of people

@@RemsHusbandit’s like if they are defending a specific group of people from being ousted 🤔🤔

​@@abramgd8557Its because they get paid by them or are employed by those "special p3d0 people".

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Well said! And that’s why we fight for children to be educated about their bodies, sex, and consent!

I find it interesting that the group of people who are against sex ed are also more likely to be pedophiles.

I literally clapped for you. Well said!

There are better ways of dealing with this though. Educating children on consent and sex only halves the problem - it doesn't eradicate it. And if we could find an actual solution to the issue, then there would be no need to educate kids on consent and sex.

That's exactly what my parents did, just pretended it wasn't happening

​@@capital_L283same

You get ‘em big mama. All kids need sexual health education it is very important. I am so happy to see that you are a huge advocate for your daughter getting the education she needs. Thank you. It’s refreshing.

I "LOVE" when people speak on behalf of special ed kids... like damn, i'm studying to become a specialized nurse where autism and intellectual disorders are a large part of my educational focus. We have sex ed as part of our curriculum bc WE need to learn how to talk to kids and teens with different levels of comprehension about the anatomy, sex etc bc sex ed is often too poorly structured and opposite of helpful for majority of kids - and at times downright dangerous for kids with autism and/or intellectual disorders bc it is too poorly taught. These people need to actually listen to parents of kids with different needs and physicians instead of speaking on their behalf w/o the knowledge and judgments clouded bc they are prudes. Ridiculous. Sex ed is not encouraging sex, it teaches kids SAFE sex, bodily functions, consent....

I'm pretty sure these teachers and also the parents that agree with them, think they are "protecting" teir kids by never tellingn them anything. "they will not have sex if tey don't no what it is. And yea, maybe ignorant conservative boys and girls from the same school will not, but wait until they go out to the word? meet new people? then, they will be in danger 'cause of their ignorance. is wais easy for them to be manipulated and abused if they don't know anything about life

It’s like they think that because your daughter is autistic (I am too) that she either won’t be interested in sex or won’t have the mental capacity to understand her own body. I hate when I see this. Autistic people are people, we go through puberty, relationships and reproductive issues just like the rest of society. Our education shouldn’t suffer because of that. It’s so frustrating that neurotypical people in positions of power won’t even consider the fact that we want to do normal things with our lives. Keep fighting for your child, please. I know it can be hard at times, but you’re doing well.

As I've read your post, I know now exactly why and how mainstream sex ed would benefit your child and many more like her. And I am more confident in my support.

I guarantee her children are learning poor sex education from their friends or on the bus. I learned so many things that weren't true when I was in 6th grade. I think these parents just wanna bury their head in the sand. Give them age appropriate education.

@@heathershepard3944 I for one heard countless peers talk about sex when I was in high school before I knew anything about it. I can say it would be much better to hear about it from mama doctor Jones than how I did and how most kids will. These ppl are in denial (I'm 29 with a daughter now)

Please share this video and channel with other parents in your district. It's astounding these people have any input on how children are educated

You should bring this video to a school board meeting, watch the heads roll, and let them know that things like this will be the reason you will not vote for them. Spread the word to other parents in your district. It takes more than a vote to stop this stuff from happening, sadly, although it does help. We have to do more than vote these days, in my opinion.

They do are! They waste so much money. Like a PR firm on that you know what an incident which then continue to release absolutely no information on said incident.

When the new conservative line is that teaching factual information IS moral and political "grooming", this is the result.

Teachers definitely shouldn't teach morals behind the subjects they teach, but they sometimes do. It's often unfortunate when they do, but it definitely happens. For the record, I'm a sexual health/ women's/labor and delivery nurse who has taught countless sex ed programs for mostly late teens and young adults, and cared for tons of pregnant and parenting teens, including some in middle school. I've seen the effects of no and inadequate sex ed. I'm 100% in support of sex ed, with the basics starting in very early elementary school or before. I just wanted mention that in real life, some teachers do introduce their own morals into the lessons they teach to their students.

I'm hearing a whole lot of: "how dare you suggest teaching kids about plan B. If a dirty little harlot wants to open her legs she must be punished with pregnancy. Oh the guy? Good for him, get some my dude!" "How dare you suggest teaching sex ed in school, it is up to parents to decide not to teach their kids about sex or consent to make it easier for creepy uncle Bob to abuse kids". "How dare you ask me to raise my kids to be a healthy functioning adult, what is wrong with you? They need to live their lives in fear and shame of sex, yet also I will double shame them for not having kids of their own yet at every social gathering." It is mind-blowing how much of its basic shit America still needs to get together.

All of it was them just talking out their buttholes tbh.

Preach!

Like on Mean Girls! Don't have sex x you will get pregnant and DIE!!!!

THIS.

I wish.... :( But looks like the US has pretty much done exactly that. Last I checked it was *prohibited* to teach anything other than abstinence only in Texas public school, or risk losing funding.

SAY 👏 IT 👏 AGAIN 👏 FOR 👏 THE 👏 PEOPLE 👏 IN 👏 THE 👏 BACK

Right!! the parents are doing this because they’re uncomfortable with their bodies but if parents aren’t going to have these talks the kids need to know where to get factual information. These parents should not block their kids for information

Go off, Kristina! This is exactly what I thought watching that school board meeting. So frustrating!

Unless its about covid 🤣

What a great move by your sister ❤ This information is so important to have...

As a parent in Alaska, thanks for not leaving.

As a citizen, I'm sorry we can't do much more, I'm furious at this school board. Can we start a petition to reinstate this or to have an expert gyn on the stand to advocate for the teacher and parents? Ps I'm half way though this video and still angry.

Thank you for all you do for the youth of the world. Thank you for those long nights, and busy weekends getting your weekly teaching plan together. Thank you for the missed time with family, so you could be there for others children. You are a hero!

I wish you the absolute best. You deserve so much more respect and consideration.

Wowww. See they don’t even listen to the main ones in their system,…. THE TEACHERS!!!

Definitely hints--no outright purity culture tropes--"real info on sex makes kids want to do it, etc. etc.

Which has repeatedly, throughout modern history, proven to be false. If they want their children to wait until marriage, they actually have a better chance of that with a full and proper sex Ed, as education students have proven to delay their first experiences with sex.

And purity culture is pedo culture!!!

@@Veronica-fc9td there is a disturbing level of overlap, yes.

@@hotarubinariko I sooo agree. I'm 50yos and have learned so much from MDJ. My parents believed that if you talked about sex, the child would go wild. Instead, I was raised clueless and made some bad choices in my sexual life. I was determined not to raise my child in the same way. Whenever my daughter asked I would answer her honestly and age appropriate especially the changes both physically and emotionally at puberty.

Yes!! I had the same conversation with my younger sibling at the same age for the same reason. They followed me into the restroom and were concerned about why I was "wearing a diaper" and had "blood in my butt", so I explained the whole "people with vaginas usually have a uterus, where a baby might grow, so the body practices for that-" the whole shebang. When sibling got to middle school and I occasionally got to meet their friends when driving around, I found myself answering questions for them AND their friends, because I was an adult they felt safe asking. And isn't that wild? Their classmate's oldest sister was the best person they could ask body questions about without judgement while getting good information.

@@firemoonlily I think it's awesome they trusted you that much :)

@@EvilSinx It was both humbling and scary! They trusted me!! They were certain I would give them accurate and inclusive information!!! But then oh fuck I have to live up to these expectations ah shit

@@firemoonlily I feel like I'm tearing up reading your post because I never really had anyone to ask these questions to. I wish I had that. I'm only now feeling like I'm catching up on this knowledge with internet sources (as anecdotal evidence to support Dr. Jones' point in the video regarding lack of at home education and a need for standardized public health education in this area). Everyone I had as an authority figure growing up that I would ask any curious questions to regarding anything of a sexual health nature would generally immediately dismiss me.

It was literally part of the English curriculum when I was a teacher! It should also be part of health curriculum but to heck with that I guess.

This!

SO much THIS! Finding GOOD sources of info in the garbage bin that the internet is, IS super important! So easy to step into some 'thought bubble' tar pit and getting stuck there due to 'the algorithm' (tm).

This was the most valuable info I learned in school. Especially nowadays kids are fked if they don’t hunt for accurate research

These “adults” need to go back to school

So the bs cycle continues

Yes its effin disgusting. She should NOT be a sbm.

As a survivor, when I was a child I viewed people like her as near equals to my abusers, because they are.

Thank you! I was in such a situation when I was growing up. I think that she is enabling abuse rather than preventing it!

April is OBVIOUSLY the stereotypical privileged white female and I hate to put people in stereotypes, but because of how naive she is I just feel like it's the only right thing to describe her as.

When I went to college, there was a mandatory lecture for incoming students on consent. I’m so glad they did that (back in 2009) because so many of us genuinely had no idea.

Hmmmm.......those correlations seem to be equivalent. Now if that school board could recognize that they're equally false...

Different levels of safety, period 💅🏿

Just because one could immediately kill/ruin your life doesn't mean the other is less bad. STDs can really ruin your health and having an unwanted child or even wanted but you're just not ready for it yet can ruin your life (and child's too).

@@Lenlon703 knowledge doesn't make people do more stupid things. Quite the opposite,

@@GreenGorgeousness my point was to support that.. I was talking about how people think having unprotected sex is 'less' dangerous than unsafe driving even though it could sometimes even be 'worse'

This is really nice to hear as an American. It's just so frustrating to have been put through the American public education system and see the insane effects it has on our ability to talk about these topics in any kind of educated way. The fact that we are not putting actual doctors in charge of the information that's given to children is WILD.

I wasn't even taught that in public school, I went to homeschool after 2nd grade and my online school hasn't said anything so far and I'm 16 rn and my parents never once named any body parts/sex ed, so now I have to figure it out by the internet

@@lisasmith8272 - Lisa, good on you for looking it up on your own! It is sad that you’ve had to, I’m sure you would prefer to have open and frank conversations with your mother. It was the one topic my own mother wasn’t capable of discussing - although, at least she recognised that it was something we did need to know, so there were several books on our shelves to cover the topic. Unfortunately, it was a few years late, for me. I was abused by a family member from 10 - 14 (and many years later, I discovered that he moved on to abusing my little brother, once I got too old for him) I couldn’t tell anyone about it, because I didn’t know what to say. I didn’t know the names of any body part, other than ‘down there’. When my daughter was born, I was determined to make sure that she DID know - I didn’t use any cutesy euphemisms for “vagina” or “vulva”, or any other body parts. (During that time I discovered that some of my - both female and male - classmates, at university, didn’t know that there was another hole, ‘down there’, and that girls don’t pee out out of my our vaginas. I was surprised that the boys didn’t know, but shocked that the girls didn’t.) As a result, several of my daughter’s friends started coming to me, with questions, in their mid teens. But, as I said - well done for being proactive, and researching the topic for yourself! I am a believer in the saying that knowledge is power, and by doing that, you are empowering yourself. You should be proud of yourself.

i might just have to move to Germany if I ever get pregnant.

When I grew up there was no internet but we had Bravo😉 Greetings from Austria.

Yep!!!

The hell did she say?

How should the average american parent accomplish this task? Nobody can teach something s*he has no clue about......

@@wernerviehhauser94 that’s the POINT. That schools, the place we’re supposed to learn things, should teach sex ed

@@bookbook9495 that is what I was trying to state, actually. I just failed to present the sarcasm properly.

@@wernerviehhauser94 fair enough, sarcasm is hard to telegraph in text. I’d recommend /s at the end of the post or some well placed italics when appropriate

Surely that goes along with the abstinence/ purity culture ideal… that consent isn’t necessary when a woman has submitted to her husband and obeys him? I’m not, for one second, implying or even hinting that they’re right to think that. But just giving a glimpse of their ideas. Consent extends far far far beyond sex and relationships, and kids needs to know they’re allowed to say no (or yes)

Especially in a room full of adults town crying for their right to PARENTAL CONSENT!!! Irony!?!

Everything right here in these comments was the topic of one day of my university women and gender studies class. Teenagers and young adults need proper information before they get to college and make the choice to take a class that talks about everything wrong with how sex education in public school and purity culture.

@@hannahgazeley3662 That was my thought also. Those who favor abstinence generally feel that one shouldn't be having sex outside of marriage in the first place and the idea of non-consensual sex in a marriage just doesn't occur to them at all. The frequent use of the slippery slope fallacy also leads me to believe they're opposed to any form of sex ed in general because they fear that knowledge will turn their kids into sex fiends.

This. I can understand it not being mentioned at all, but to specify it as not required is basically justifying not having to get it

"peripheal" is a word but probably not the correct one in this context. Periphery is probably what what she intended. It seems a minor error though, certainly nothing big.

I definitely agree!!

Exactly. And people seem to forget that these are kids. Younger kids especially aren’t sexualizing things the way adults do.

my mom did the same thing starting at the same age! I had a book on anatomy/biology that explained how the human body worked and there was a section that explained where babies came from and it had these clear pages that showed the gestation stages. It was really cool I loved that book. It was really helpful learning about other things too not just reproductive health. any questions I had about how the body worked if she didn't know we would go to the library and look them up (this was in the 90s lol).

Completely agree. My mom would answer all my questions in an age-appropriate way. Generally, if a kid is old enough to ask questions, they're old enough to know more.

@@blade5521 100% agree

I think banging the mother's head on the desk would be more helpful, at least for your mental health.

That mother should be in PRISON

So basically she was repeatedly victimised. Jesus..😢

With a girl that young, I'm also concerned who "he" is - is this a relative? Brother or father?

Oh, my goodness. I feel so sorry for that child.

😂💀😂💀😂💀 you may be right. People react from a personal place. It's a privilege to have a narrow view of life. I'm wondering if they had a peer on the board? Especially from the upper grades about younger, post grad about upper grades, disabled community. As part of the steering committee.

@@GrandmasBeLike omgoodness me! Are you suggesting they be *gasp* inclusive in some way?

I'm terribly terribly sorry and thank you for openly stating the problem. Showing a real life example of what their lack of education feeds, instead of what proper sex ED could prevent.

I’m so sorry this happened to you

Yeah I was opted out as well and also molested :( I didn't know what was happening to me but knew it was wrong and how uncomfortable I felt. I wasn't even allowed to wear tampons because my mother believed they would somehow affect my virginity at the time lol.

I am so sorry to hear that. Hope you are doing well now.

@@RedRoseSeptember22 So sorry to hear that. Hope you are doing well

The 'murican way

Pretty much

@@emmafrost3115 I'd call it the Bureaucratic way.

@@Asubatsu nah they got it right.

@@Asubatsu Yeah, it's true. The number of public school board members that have themselves tried to "re-teach" offensive subject, or submitting to the community outrage from the parents if not, is staggering. I live in TX, but know the fight continues in LA, VA, WV, and GA. The attacks aren't just on health either. They've (the terrifyingly loud minority of parents and teachers of said schools) and the Texas State Board of Education are now trying to eliminate or "clean up" is ecology with climate change, history (LA had a textbook that claimed Moses of the bible existed as depicted), science and the scientific method as a whole with the whole evolution fiasco, as well as sex ed. Even modern history is under attack. The TSBOE's meeting can be found online. Minority religions and POC have pointed out the inaccuracies when talking about their groups, but they were ignored. The one I remember was a Sikh correcting some mention of the religion in a TX textbook.

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I definitely understand. Hugs to both you and hubby.

I'm so sorry for everything you had to go through. I am glad you are finding a path for yourself and your son. Sending you love.

I'm so sorry that something like that happened to you.

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Seriously

#logic 🤦🏼‍♀️😂

13:00 She also then continues "students who are experiencing humiliation at home by being exposed to these kinds of things." She thinks it's humiliating to talk about sex, and that they need to protect children at least at school, because "Those parents aren't going to be opting their kids out of something that isn't going to be appropriate for them." Based on that she most certainly opts her children out of sex ed, and on top that seemingly thinks that everyone else should too. "They are vulnerable because of their marginalised situation at home." She thinks that children who are taught sex ed at home are in a marginalised situation, that it isn't normal to talk/teach about sex at home, so they need to protect those children.

As someone who survived CSA, I WISH I was taught at school what is and isn't OK. Mayne then I won't have had to go through 2 years of it, and reasoning with myself thinking what was happening was normal. Not to mention the unhealthy relationship with my mind, body, and sex due to what happened. I'm not ashamed to admit, I became addicted to sex in high school (started freshman year) because I didn't see a big deal, and because of ongoing abuse at home, I took what I could get (the feeling of being wanted and loved) even if it was for the wrong things. I didn't see anything wrong with it at the time.

As a survivor of SA in a relationship, I was never tought what SA could look like in a relationship, how to handle it (during and after) and to not put up with it. We need to to teach this somehow. Also kids/teens need an adult that give resources/talk to if something is going on.

When did you get internet capabilities?

@@BMed. Idk man, even for me, after being on the internet for 6+ years it's hard to find reliable information. Plus, sometimes you learn somethings by yourself and can kinda deal with it on a daily basis so you don't exactly go looking for information about it. I personally had an ok sex ed at school, but Dr Jones still manages to teach me new info about myself that changes my perspective on things.

@@BMed. having information given to you in a comprehensive manner is much easier than googling random questions and hoping the information given is what you are looking for. The only way I knew this channel exsisted was from randomly stumbling on it through Dr Mike, who was also a random find.

@@srtatropicalia exactly, if you don't know what you're missing out on education wise then it's unlikely that you'll search for the info.

Have you seen Carrie? Because that sounds like part of Carrie

And consent is not only about sex, consent is about respect. If you teach someone that they don't have to do something if they don't want to or if it hurts them, you loose control over them. You lose the fear system that most of these conservative families use to teach their kids.

THIS

@@azulmendez6946 exactly this!

@Rikki SAME!

Alaska has the highest numbers of intimate partner violence, and sexual assaults in our country among many other tragic statistics. Consent should be taught but in many school districts they are only allowed to teach abstinence only education. No sex and that’s the education they get. Do they have gun shows at high schools… yup. Does any of this make sense, nope.

As a woman who has a primary care physician who LISTENS to me (which can be a problem with male doctors and female patients of child bearing age), I'd strongly advise you to TRY to find a PCP you're comfortable going to with basically any health problem you have. It can be VITALLY important. I understand that's much easier said than done with the healthcare "system" in this country, but at the very least I hope you can find a gynecologist you feel comfortable with who LISTENS to you and believes you know your body best. I say that because I lost a friend to cervical cancer when she was only 28 years old, and it was all because her male gynecologist didn't listen to her when she told him something was wrong. She wanted to be screened, but he wouldn't do it and told her she was too young to have cancer. He didn't listen to her until she could feel a mass inside herself and it was bleeding. By then it was already stage IV. She left behind a three-year-old daughter and a husband who adored her. Please don't get the wrong idea that I'm trying to scare you with that story; I'm absolutely not. I just try to stress the importance to other young women of having a gyno you trust and to get your regular screenings done! And most importantly of all, to trust your intuition if you think there's something wrong.

I couldn't agree more!!! I'm 42 yrs old mother of 3 ages 23(male), 19(female) & 10(female) I didn't even get the "period" talk from my own mother so how was I supposed to approach sex? After I was sexually active & she found out I was screamed at & basically called a slutty whore. I love MDJ & she has taught me things I didn't know & answered questions I too didn't even know I had!!! Keep up the great job MDJ !!!!!!

@Leslee Lane Your daughter was who I was as a teen. I'm now MDJ's age. As someone who was that "shy"/"modest" teen: *Thank* you. You are a good mom. If your daughter is old enough, help her learn how to make her own doctor's appointments. First, it's a skill she's going to need as an adult, and second, if she isn't comfortable telling her mom "Hey, I think my vagina is sick and needs to go see a doctor," she may be more comfortable just making that appointment and telling you "Hey, I scheduled a doctor appointment for myself Thursday after school. Can I get a ride, please?" Obviously as a parent, you're going to know something's up, but that may or may not occur to her.

@@kriscynical Sincere condolences to you and your friend's loved ones.

Yess

In UK it starts at age 7/8 and happens every year until you leave education system

Heck form birth I used correct names for body parts for my kids and practice concent when hugging them... it's really not that difficult to start these concepts from birth.

And so they know they have the right to say no, and to tell anything to their parents. Fact is people who harm children like this rarely victimize well informed kids, the risk is to high, the go for kids whose parents keep them ignorant sadly

I’m disabled and my mom was a nurse. She made sure I knew the proper words for things, allowed me to ask questions, and taught me about sex. It’s one of the most helpful things she had done for me.

I remember trying to explain the abuse I had experienced. But I couldn't really properly explain, I was very young when it started with that close family friend, I had also be taught to he was someone I was "safe" with. I didn't even understand why I felt uncomfortable during the times he molested me, I didn't know what he was doing was wrong. But my stomach would get knots in it and I'd be very quiet or preoccupied with something else. Only when I saw him excuse himself to use the bathroom after one time, and the door was broken between his and his wife's bedroom and the bathroom that I saw him 'pee white stuff', and it sound painful. That day I got very confused and upset. I didn't understand. It was a few weeks afterward that my class had that lesson. They gave me a doll told me to point and explain, then they'd want to know details like how, with what, etc. I had a difficult time. I was young, and while I knew the functions that created babies, I had vague details because I was only in elementary school at the time. My dad still feels like he failed to protect my sister and I. I have lost a good chunk of my childhood memories, I can't recall summer trips my parents, my sister and I went on, even though no abuse happened during these times. I really wish there was a part of school every year that just focused on important and practical health education.

I agree!!

Before I used KZfaq I didn’t even know what a uterus was/looked like The internet has taught me more about my anatomy than my actual anatomy section in biology class

School boards are a literal meme these days and arent competant in furthering any progress in the school the system needs a serious over haul the ciriculums havent changed school should develop as techknowlgy develops

@@EmmaJohnsonShenanigans same

@@quasi8180 agreed. They're still using the same structure from 30 years ago and it doesn't work. I'm so burnt out as are many teachers. It's unsustainable and not productive.

Not only that but later in the video someone else commented that they would prefer to hear certain things from a "medical professional" to see if they're accurate. Umm....she is one?!

I suspect that's the board's bias showing. Since they didn't really go into specifics, my assumption is their biggest complaint with MDJ's videos is that she doesn't discourage sex outside of marriage and that she makes an effort to use inclusive vocabulary. They'd much rather have experts that are opposed to anything that isn't sex between a man and his wife.

@@randomstuff-qu7sh what small town school board isn't biased 😭 it's really horrible. My school board is super biased and had to be reminded of STATE AND FEDERAL LAWS while making decisions because they were going against them. It was horrible.

@@KassieR329 school boards really are horrible. When I was in high school the school board was actively working to try and ban my blind friend from the district because he "was a liability to the district". Some of the stuff these boards do in the name of "education" is messed up.

@@TheSuefriend in the USA there is a law/right that is something about “no student left behind” or something like that.

😮 your kidding! Awful awful.

@Lissy Mcfee I am so so sorry you were taught that. I can't imagine the trauma and fear of sex that would instill especially with how inaccurate it all is. I can not believe they told you that it's not rape if you are not a virgin. That's truly horrific. I was SA and R***d at 8 years old I couldn't have survived that if someone had told me that was my fault. The childhood abuse I endured caused me to become a cutter and even now over 25 years later I still have a bad habit of hurting myself either by cutting or burning my wrist to deal with emotional pain. I wish adults realized how much the things we are taught will impact us as we grow.

WOW. I have no words

I heard the "molested means you ain't a virgin" one in Texas, too. IN church, in school, you name it.

@@Sixx323 So it's not normal to scald your hands with really, really really really hot water after reliving trauma over and over in your head?

It's true when people say education is power. It gives a person the ability to make better decisions, know when something is wrong or bad, and the tools to speak up when they are. I hope you are able to heal from the trauma you experienced.

I hope you will one day overcome your trauma. Please know it was 100% not your fault. * Hugs *

I hope she sees it too in the 6th grade I was "accidentally" touched multiple times I didn't understand that they were on purpose and I didn't think I should talk to teachers about it I have been touched a lot without doing anything about it cuz I didn't understand it at the time it happened

@@FroggyFreg hope you have someone you can trust that you can talk to about what you experienced. Take care!

@@cynthiaandvern I do

I interpreted his sentence as not being able to string together "premarital" because it might have been too big of a word for him.

@@elizabethpenton2306 agreed! These troglodytes don't usually have a problem whipping out their religion as law.

Betting he was trying not to say "preteen".

@@elizabethpenton2306 I want to know why women are OK with premarital sex. How is premarital sex NOT emotional abuse?

@@stephanieellis1072 What!!!! Premarital sex just means that someone has sex before marriage that is it nothing abusive about it

The concern they have is probably nothing about the materials...it's the fact she supports gay and trans rights. Let's be honest.

In a nutshell! I think the other issue is that Mama Doctor Jones discusses abortion in neutral terms rather than emotionally loaded terms.

@@deedeeiam agree with your intent, but let's not forget about the inherently abusive purity subculture going on in a lot of religious circles in countries like America.

Wow. Your story is interesting. In 4th grade I had the same scenario with the boys and girls separated. The girls learned about periods and could ask questions at the end. It's been so long that I don't remember the details, but I did learn that periods were normal and that if you start it soon, and don't have a pad, you can wrap a ton of toilet paper around your underwear until you do. However, when the girls and boys reconvened the boys said that they just watched a movie (which I suspected was a lie, but if not, then that's bad). I do know though that the boys were not taught about girls having periods and that made me angry even as an 11 year old. And from what I've learned from many men later in life was they were only taught about womens body's in very vague terms and had to learn more from the internet or their girl friends. What I find most interesting is your experience with sex ed in 7th grade. The sex ed I got after 4th grade was sporadically throughout middle school. I was shown a penis diagram, described the act of sex with a condom to stop ejection, and taught the existence of a plan B pill. Nothing else. Better than most, but not ideal. I've been lucky where all the abstinence talk was enough for me because I thought I'd give it no chance. I'm just upset that sex ed is still so stigmatized in the United States. The next generation is living in the time of information, and you want to just tell them nothing and leave them with piles of misinformation? The public education system has always needed to be fixed, but even more so in the area of sex education.

Yep, my sex ed was Freshman year highschool, a point where that info was long past due and the info provided was extremely limited and sub par.

Yea I think my best resource for sex education was like sex nerd Sandra near the end of high-school for me...and a book my mom bought for my brother's that was basically half a picture book of how your baby sibling is born. And that one was actually pretty damn educational and accurate. Went through conception to some handwavey bits about actual birth to how the nurses clean him up and take measurements afterwards. It was from the 70s to late 80s and for kids so not like...as technical as today anyways. I didn't have sex Ed in school, I had the puberty talk in middleschool that left me with more questions than answers, we didn't get to the reproductive system in my elective science class (anatomy and physiology) but like...that was 10th grade? Not going to go over much I didn't already know then through doing my own online research. And at the very least my mom made it very clear to us that there were three holes, whether or not we could find them ourselves or not.

5th grade? 10? Hell no!

I learned what sex was pretty young, and then in 7th grade at 12 years old I had an actual sex ed class but it was pretty much just "the best way to protect yourself is to be abstinent" but at least they did tell us about other protective measures. and spoiler alert, my relationships after that talk? they were still just as scared to hold my hand. I'm pretty sure it's proven that children who receive adequate sexual education are less likely to have sex at a younger age

@@marikiemarie7622 and why not? I know you wrote this AFTER the news came out about the ten year old little CHILD in Ohio that was refused an abortion because Roe was overturned and OH had a trigger law (like half the states did) that went into effect _immediately._ Why shouldn't ten year olds learn about sex? That would definitely have helped that CHILD know she needed to take steps after being attacked to prevent pregnancy. She was raped, but she may not have even known that what happened to her was abnormal, and may have just thought that was what sex was supposed to be. And yes, that is a distinct possibility, not hyperbole. There is NO way a ten year old little girl should be forced to carry a potentially deadly pregnancy to term simply because there's a stack of far-right extremist activist SCOTUS justices that don't believe in the 9th and 14th Amendments. Nor because the Senate only has 50 Ds (48 if you don't count the turncoats) instead of 60 to pass any bills into laws, either. She should not be FORCED to go through that, for ANY reason. The fact that she had to be taken across state lines into a SANE state that doesn't _believe_ in State-owned uteruses and forced-birth, so she could have a chance at a normal life, should make ANYONE realize how important sex education really is! In short, 5th grade? 10? Hell YES!

@@marikiemarie7622 some girls get their periods in third grade. God, i hope you don’t have children.

They don't want to have the uncomfortable conversations of kids saying things about their uncle being creepy, or their parents being abusive. This is also why they don't teach people about their Human Rights. There's 30, do you know them? I don't. Why can't we both recite them easily?

As a survivor of MULTIPLE SA's...YEAH. Consent doesn't even have to be taught in conjuncture with sex either!!! UGH. I totally agree with you.

I know right ? In my province we don't have obligatory sex ed class but for a month or so we have at least 2 classes per week when a professional come to talk to us. They have to talk about protection, stds, consent, periods, erections, rape (with ressources for help), etc.

OMG! This! So much this! Fine hold dumbass ideas about ancient morality, but for heaven's sake tell minors they can't legally consent to sex, and that consensual statutory rape can still get a guy listed as a sex-offender! That's just knowing federal law. No wonder so many guys at college thought getting a girl drunk was A-OK. Consent isn't just about telling kids about the icky things we don't want to do/look/know about, it's a public safety issue. This riled me up so much because my undergrad uni had a program that covered the legal definitions and was preformed as a mock-trial for education. A P.O.S. philosophy major decided he cared more about winning (read: audience poll) than what the actually freakin' law is and changed the script of his part of the skit to make it seem like the drunk sex wasn't actually against the law.

@@chesneymigl4538 To be honest, most people aren't taught what laws there are even as a norm, nevermind the "taboo" realms of interpersonal violence. We kind of just pick a lot of it up on our own, though I was around for D.A.R.E.

Unfortunately, most school boards in the US are elected positions and if theres not enough people running then its whoever signs up to do it so they can fill seats on it.

Yeah I graduated quite a bit ago and we had very comprehensive sex ed, from 5th grade until 11th grade. My head hurts watching this.

As someone who has lived in the USA their whole life, I am not. I once had to argue with the school board that black face was not appropriate. Not even joking.

@@changingmyself unfortunately that is something that I had to deal with as well. But it was not a school thing but rather a colleague. Luckily when I addressed it with her she kind of softened. When I heard school board I felt like these people were just parents who had their kids go to that school and they were just volunteering to chip in. These people did not sound like experts of anything. In my country we don't really have issues you bring up to the school board. There is a syllabus and curriculum but all materials and lessons may be completely freely planned without anyone's approval. Of course, if something is offensive or is addressed by a parent, the high ups in the school do have a chat with you but there is no "asking for permission".

Welcome to the United States. We have this weird switch in perspective here where sexuality is scary and inappropriate for teens, but violent content and instruments of violence draw much less ire.

That's so upsetting. 😔

i love teaching children but between what you just said and the pretty much general rule that the parents are horrible, i no longer do it.

I hate that whole 'I feel' americanism trend that took over. I often call people out on it. I suspect it's a way of not having to qualify or take responsibility for thoughts

I’ve read that in business, women will often make the mistake of using “I feel” statements in emails etc with co workers and bosses and it automatically makes it so they are not taken as seriously and their opinion is not deemed as valuable as someone who just go for the whole subject verb thing.

@@215juliusgirl Which is biological discrimination imo. The female brain is literally wired to make more emotional connections than the male brain. Which is why woman can make connections to things that men just don't see. Also, that is why women are "more emotional" and the women brain holds memories based on emotional response more than anything else, while the male brain just doesn't make those connections at all and actually goes over the same thing over and over instead.

@@celianunn2070 I said I read it, not that I agreed with it. Unfortunately, the only industry in the United States (and there is only one) with more females that own/run companies than males is legal weed. Most bosses are male and already judge women differently whether they even realize it. And although I know a lot of women who would never think to say “I feel” and are much more logical than emotional, and vice versa, I do say it. I think the point of the study was to be more sure of yourself which is really their word for that American brand of arrogance so that i stead of “I feel” it’s just the statement like the difference between “I feel we cannot sustain these numbers at the current rate of i flation” or “we can not sustain these…..” The point was that women type with a lot of qualifiers and it reads as not confident enough in their words. And business can be….. Heartless capitalist bottom line shit. I don’t think they were talking about, for instance, me writing to the other social workers and PsyDs I work with. More big glass buildings filled with suits and no conscience type of places.

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Absolutely! This has made me so angry, the majority of the school board are brain dead!! Those poor students! You're so right about sexual abuse from an early age would seemingly be what they might perceive as normal, a channel like Dr MJ's is essential!!!

when they said that all i could picture is some village who sees a fight breaking out and instead of trying to stop it, the villagers quickly close shutters and bar their doors against the trouble

I'd stand up and clap this comment if it were read aloud.

It's funny because I was just watching CSI: Crime Investigation season 1 and one of the case is about a family murders.. The teen daughter and the younger daughter survive while the mother, father and 2 brothers dead.. Turns out that the teen daughter ask her boyfriend to kill her family because her dad has been sexually harassed her since she was a kid and she got pregnant at 13 with her daughter.. Her daughter is being registered as the youngest child of the family instead.. Sex Ed is important because kids doesn't know exactly what happen to them.. Young children is very vulnerable.. Being sexually assaulted by your own family members or strangers happen.. The predators didn't care how old the girl is or care if they understand it or not.. They prey on young innocent children.. It makes me mad how those school boards didn't even think for a second how sex ed could have help people know what is consents and know if something abnormal happens to you

I agree with this, however, on the other side of the scale, what about kids that have been sexually abused and know it, and have to relive trauma in the middle of class? This doesn't have anything to do with MDJ's videos so she brought it up to the wrong meeting but i do believe they should better focus on students and try to pinpoint individuals that may have a harder time mentally learning about this and have smaller sessions in order to better assist them. Again though, this is hard but would be exponentially helpful to students that have been abused in this way and don't feel ready to discuss to parents or feel they can't discuss to parents.

That!

I'd say it's pretty much a guarantee that they fall into one of three categories: 1) they are or have been an abuser. Either they knocked up someone when they were a kid, or they molest kids now. 2) they want to protect an abuser. 3) they are in a cult and have literally no idea how the real world works. Of course, many cult leaders are abusers so the difference between this and #2 is in the sincerity of the person making the argument. This is likely most of the people who make this kind of argument: they truly believe that what they are proposing will help rather than hurt, but they are just plain wrong. People are easily duped by arguments that sound somewhat coherent and appeal to the beliefs they already have. Most people in our culture, unfortunately, already have intense shame and guilt surrounding sex and sexuality long before it would be appropriate to offer sex ed classes. This is taught to literal babies. Kids are already nervous about kissing and other forms of sensual contact by the time they are six, because of how their parents and peers act. Hence, cults can easily appeal to this shame in order to convince people that children should not learn about sex/ be exposed to anything sexual.

Right? Really makes you wonder. Especially the men who don't want these kids knowing anything about their bodies.

That is a really good point

Yup. As someone who had sex ed starting from elementary school, I did not have sex until I was in college. So every time I hear arguments against it because its "innapropriate" or because it "encourages sex" I wonder the same exact thing. Its not even sexual abuse, but about control. Keeping knowledge from their kids is about controlling them.

Plus, coming from someone who graduated with special needs this school board needs to understand not all special needs children learn the same way as neurotypical students do or the same as others with special needs!!!

I lived in AK for two years. This does not make me an expert on AK then or now. However, if teen pregnancy is at about national average. According to the cdc 2% of teens 15-19 nation wide (in 2018-19) successfully deliver live babies. (The rates are determined that way, because births are tracked, many pregnancies fail before they are even recognized by the mother and many others do once she is aware, and rates of positive tests in obgyn offices would not be as easily tracked as there are billions of dr offices. Fewer hospitals. LOL. Anyway, AK’s rate is approximately 2% (in 2019) [on a positive aside, teen pregnancy is on the decline nation wide.] So, it is on par with the national average. But their population is skewed slightly higher male to female in ratio. Either way though, Alaska’s measured teen pregnancy rate is on a declining trend (on par with the National rate) over the last few years prior to Covid. I am interested to seeing what change in those rates will have happened in the last two years. That said, “”“U.S states whose residents have more conservative religious beliefs on average tend to have higher rates of teenagers giving birth.” Of the ten most conservatively religious states in the United States, eight are among the states with the highest teen birth rates.”” (Taken from worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/teen-pregnancy-rates-by-state) Of the top ten teen pregnancy states, Texas is number nine, according to that site. I didn’t research that site’s references so take this with a grain of salt. So, MDJ’s passion for factual science based sexual education is both understandable and admirable!!

And remember many of those 13 year olds that age giving birth were only 12 when they got pregnant. I was a high risk Ob/gyn Rn and we had a 12 year old deliver. She had never had her period and did not know that the "affection" she had been receiving from a male relative was sex much less abuse because no one had ever talked to her about these things.

@@clipperrn Oh my god. That's absolutely disgusting. See, situations like that just underscore the fact that we can't rely on families to provide sex ed, particularly in regards to abuse: sometimes the families are the ones sexually abusing the kids. To the one woman going on about how this shouldn't have this material in classrooms because it's inappropriate for children with bad home lives...they're the ones that need it most!

As a mom to a 13 year old daughter, I agree These people are so uneducated about reproductive health 🤦🏼‍♀️

Well that's sad for you and your father. I also raised my daughter and taught her everything probably more than any teacher could.

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That must have been scary! My mother told me the barest minimum about periods, (basically, “you’ll bleed from there, every 4 weeks or so, until your old”) I was 11, and my period started about 3 weeks later. She didn’t explain why, or that it had anything to do with how babies are made - which would have been important to know, since I was being abused at the time, and up until I was 14. It’s pure luck that I didn’t get pregnant, I still occasionally have nightmares about the “what if’s”!

I'm so sorry that happened to you. None of it was your fault! I wish you healing and peace

fair, unfortunately some teachers are engaging in unsafe teaching and some handbooks are too perverse for adults let alone teenagers, which is why some parents opt their children out of these classes, which is also fair I think

THIS, exactly

That's the kind of reasoning people use against the transgender community. It's not fact-based. It's all based on bad inferences and emotions. They just like to use the word "fact" while they flit from subject to subject, never substantiating a single thing they say. 68.7% of statistics are made up on the spot. I don't remember the exact number so I just made it up.

@@r-platt oh I'm unfortunately well aware of that. Feelings do not trump facts, no matter how "strongly" you feel them. I've literally had people cite opinion articles as their sources.

@@waffles3629 forgive me, where did feelings and facts come from?

@@r-platt huh? I wasn't saying you believed those things, just that I've come across those attitudes a lot. Transphobes citing their feelings as facts.

@@waffles3629 I see. Thank you for explaining.