Time for Republicans (and Christians) to Embrace Sex-Ed

Given social media and trans predation, we have to start teaching the realities of biological sex

When I was a kid way back in the 1980s (it really was a long time ago), one of the big culture war issues was sexual education in public schools. Parents were understandably suspicious of allowing the schools to teach their children about sex. The sexual revolution was still relatively new in the 1980s, but its results already looked pretty bad: AIDS, rampant divorce, rising teen pregnancy rates, proliferation of pornography and an increase in public sex in cities. People didn’t trust government schools to solve the problem, fearing that the liberals who ran the schools would only add to it.

As it turned out, after peaking in the early 90s, the sexual free-for-all that followed in the aftermath of the sexual revolution subsided, and today we find that sexual promiscuity among the young is lower than it has been in decades — perhaps centuries. The problem today isn’t sexual disinhibition, but rather sexual confusion. That is, children are being taught myths about sex that are distorting their view of this fundamental biological reality.

One such myth is that sex is a social construct. This is a purely non-scientific belief, but has been promoted by feminists since at least the 1970s. By the 90s, it was given enough serious consideration that, in ‘97, Steve Sailer took on the issue:

It's well known that top female runners have been catching up on their male counterparts. Some authors have even suggested that women might one day run as fast as men. For example, Ward and Whipp (1992) predicted that the men's and women's marathon world records would be equal by 1998 and that women record holders would catch up with men in shorter distances early in the 21st century. The American public agrees: a pre-Olympic poll of 1,000 adults last May found that 66 percent of Americans believe "the day is coming when top female athletes will beat top males at the highest competitive levels" (Tharp, 1996).

Eventually Steven Sailer (amusingly writing in partnership with Stephen Seiler), discovered that women had made some athletic progress relative to men by… using male hormones:

We began looking into this topic seriously after one of us (Seiler) casually informed the other (Sailer) that the steep improvement curve for women seemed to have flattened out. Unconvinced, Sailer suggested a closer look at the data. Together we analyzed the trends in elite running performance and found, to our surprise, that the women are now getting slower while the men continue to speed up. The reason? We believe that drug testing has reduced the use of anabolic steroids by both men and women. Drug testing is restoring the physiological gender gap.

So it turns out that what seemed to support physical gender equality actually provided evidence of sex-based differences in athletic potential.

Needless to say the mainstream press ignored Sailer’s findings in a pattern that continued for decades before he collected a critical mass of followers, and his indefatigable efforts to expose the truth about progressive social myths, such as gender equality, finally paid off (follow Steve here).

Unfortunately, the myth of gender equality took a far more sinister turn with the rise of trans. Following Judith Butler’s feminist jihad against biological sex, ambitious men - many with autogynephilia - began declaring themselves to be women and shoving themselves into traditionally female spaces, such as women’s bathrooms, spas and, naturally, women’s sports.

This would be scandalous enough if these intrusions were the only problem, but the trans cult has begun to engage in outright indoctrination of children both on social media and in Democrat-run public schools in blue states, resulting in a dramatic spike in “gender-reassignment” procedures carried out on children, including pre-teens. Children are groomed into believing they are the opposite sex, and then encouraged to seek “treatment” for the supposed physical disorder of being born as a boy or a girl.

This barbarous practice should be outlawed, but there is a militant faction supporting it that has gained a great deal of control over the Democrat party, largely due to the abandonment of religion by large swaths of Democrats and their consequent openness to novel ideas about reality.

At this point it’s clear that we can’t effectively shield children from harmful gender ideology, so it’s necessary to counter it openly. To do so we must create curricula for children that teach the reality of sex-based differences. Children must learn to accept the body they were born with, and to view it positively. They must be taught that male and female are real categories firmly rooted in the laws of nature, and that it is impossible for a human to change sex. Finally, they should learn about the dangers of gender reassignment surgeries, the inevitable complications and the oftentimes tragic consequences.

States that are free from trans legislative control should immediately introduce these classes into public schools, developing age appropriate versions for children starting in third grade and continuing into high school.

There will be ferocious resistance, but this only demonstrates the importance of this form of education. Indeed — the necessity of it: many children could be saved from a life of sickness and dysfunction if only they knew that there is nothing physically wrong with them.

Republican legislators should act immediately, sharing resources with other states where advantageous and recruiting experts in physiology to ensure accuracy. It shouldn’t be practically difficult, nor should it be very expensive. The good it could do far outweighs the potential cost and trouble. Protecting and guiding our children is among the highest political virtues, so it is incumbent upon our leaders to act immediately.