In this blog post, geneticist Jess McLaughlin offers six detailed strategies for trans inclusion in biology education. They also include an extensive list of resources.
Rethinking The Sex Talk: Interview with Cory Silverberg on NPR Fresh Air
Cory Silverberg is a sex educator and the author of “What Makes a Baby”, “Sex is a Funny Word”, and the new book “You Know, Sex” which is for children 10+. Cory spoke in this interview about teaching and learning about sex as it relates to not only reproduction, but also pleasure, power, and identity. These are valuable ideas for science educators looking to put their teachings about sex in context with students’ whole lives.
Resource Roundup: gender-inclusive sex education
Resource Roundup is a newly periodic attempt to capture all the links aggregated through conversations and requests, shared by many. We focus on science education materials but have encountered enough sex education-adjacent curriculum to share the collection below. Your mileage may vary. (RXS)
For a comprehensive sex ed curriculum check out Advocate for Youth's 3Rs . It's completely free unlike most curricula and they just did a big update of the lessons this year!
GIB offers a longer language guide (sex ed is the last category) and has a Healthy Teen Tipsheet linked there.
Queer Sex Ed’s Gender Expansive Puberty: An Educational Guide
Short on time? BIG rec for the → zines← on Queer Sex Ed Community Curriculum about dysphoria vs. dysmorphia, anti-fat bias, science, sex, and society, sex diversity in nature, boundaries, and gender expansive puberty, and more! [Ed. note: I made certain pages a station for discussion that they then had to record the synthesis of before they moved on.]
Gender Spectrum's Gender Inclusive Puberty & Health Education Principles and Resources
Sex Ed for Social Change (SIECUS) has this Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education (K-12) that may help with scope & sequence concordance with the National Sex Education Standards supplementing.
very accessible sex determination & non-disjunction activity by Sabrina Kayed, based on the Scientific American "Beyond XX and XY" poster, and has students trace chromosome to gonads to hormones to organs to traits development based on the sex chromosomes available
Planned Parenthoods have peer education groups who do guest lessons Teen Council
SparkEd - Planned Parenthood sex ed lessons
Planned Parenthood lessons (y en español)
LGBTQ Family + Gender Diversity Elementary Teaching Guide (SFUSD)
Gender Inclusive Language Guidance for SFUSD Educators (SFUSD)
Sex Education Collective may help you find nearby folks to collaborate with
Turner Syndrome Foundation's Guide to Your Body for people with Turner Syndrome (XO)
Oregon DoE sexuality education newsletter has a lot of links grouped by topic
#sex ed tagged articles from Teen Vogue