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All districts are now required to promote abstinence, exclude consent, and remove any pictures of reproductive organs.

The Florida Department of Education (FLDOE) has ordered local school districts to submit their sex education plans to the state for approval. The FLDOE has also said the classes must promote abstinence and cannot include discussion of contraception or pictures of reproductive health organs.

The sex-ed takeover removes local discretion when it comes to district sex education classes and materials.

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[-] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 108 points 2 months ago

Scared of the vagina. And women in general. Who are these weak men? They shouldn't have power anywhere.

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 33 points 2 months ago

I'm not sure they're scared, I think it's more about control and to make sure kids don't understand what's happening to them if they're subjected to abuse or when they reach puberty. It's all about power and control over the body of other people.

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 18 points 2 months ago

They are scared of losing power. Shitty rulers always are, because they know how bad they are, or at least they assume others would treat them just as badly if given the chance, which is almost synonymous.

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 months ago

And more teen pregnancies so there's more right coloured children and more women staying out of school.

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[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 2 months ago

Have you ever seen a vagina? Its terrifying! /s

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 10 points 2 months ago

These men need to be schooled by Nick Offerman.

[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 75 points 2 months ago

If theres no sex and no ed how is it sex ed?

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 47 points 2 months ago

It isn’t. Florida needs pregnant teenagers who can’t get abortions so that they can use their children to sit on the coastline and pedal the land up out of the water. This is also where they will get their electricity. It also needs a constant supply of these children because they’ll have to replace them after every hurricane.

Everything I just typed is probably more likely to work than abstinence based sex ed is to prevent pregnancy and is just as scientifically valid as a sex ed class with no sex and no ed.

[-] Classy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

Nice, Five Million Merits mixed with dystopia environmentalist catastrophe, I love it

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[-] pyre@lemmy.world 51 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

these guys think about sex and children too much to not be pedophiles.

and this is the number one legislation you'd want to pass if you wanted to make it easier to engage in pedophilia.

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

They just want Florida schools to make victims.

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago

These words include abuse, consent, domestic violence, fluids, gender identity and LGBTQ information, she said.

Bro what. Ok ok I understand, no matter how much I disagree with it, why they think pictures of stuff are icky but c’mon, people.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago

It's beyond apparent they want women locked into abusive marriages again. If they could get away with it they'd be rolling back their abilities to use banks, get a driver's license, or even work without the consent of their husband.

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago

They're working on no fault divorce repeal.

A few maggot congresspersons have floated the idea

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Hey, Maggots don't deserve that comparison. They're actually useful to an ecosystem. ;)

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's part of project 2025. It's more than just a few people.

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[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago

I remember sex ed class having textbooks with drawings, not photographs. It wasn't icky. The topic was awkward AF, of course... Well, I dunno what textbooks are like these days tho.

[-] bcgm3@lemmy.world 45 points 2 months ago

Ah yes, more "protecting the children"* to pander to an angry and stupid electorate.

* "Protecting the children" is a phrase used here to mean, "ensuring the next generation of an angry and stupid electorate."

[-] mercano@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

To pander to the segment of the electorate DeSantis thinks is going to reelect him.

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago

This is how you get teens pregnant. And/or full of STDs.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

When Fidesz banned sex ed here in Hungary on the basis of "child protection", we got an immediate rise in child pregnancies.

[-] naun@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

And children and teens groomed and assaulted.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

With all the hysteria around a White Lady Pregnancy Gap, this may be a feature rather than a bug.

[-] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

If the revolution needs a baby sitter, then the revolution will probably just stay home instead.

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[-] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 months ago

Florida biology classes mostly center around the four humors.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You joke, but it does feel as though dismantling public education is just a knock-on effect of all these gag orders.

If you want your kids to get a serious sex-ed or biology background, you're obligated to send them to private schools.

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

That's their plan. Educated citizens vote less often for restrictive, backwards Republican culture warrior control freaks.

[-] bashbeerbash@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

The plan is a Christian Caliphate. These people are terminally lazy, so it's less work to be a radical sect than it is to learn how to build a bridge, or a healthy family.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Don't necessarily need to go as far as full private education. Unitarian Universalists have put together workshops for sexual education.

https://www.uua.org/re/owl

I'm not a member of UU, but I have friends who are and the curriculum seems legit.

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[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Ed won’t even know where to start with his wiener. You ever read that story about the lady who never got pregnant because her husband had been inserting himself into her urethra opening?

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[-] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

When your thirty year plan as a governor is just to keep the Florida man meme alive forever.

[-] forrcaho@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

Ok, the title comes from the linked article, but they aren't banned from "mentioning anatomy". They are banned from showing pictures of reproductive organs.

I don't know why some people seem compelled to take a story that's plenty horrible as it stands and give it a deceptive headline... seems like I'm seeing more of that recently. Are we really in a post-truth era?

[-] vividspecter@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago

I'd guess it was an attempt to keep the title succinct, then not proofing it properly. In any case, always read the article before commenting as titles are frequently misleading (intentional or not).

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 10 points 2 months ago

It’s even more unnecessary because the content is already plenty concerning in my opinion. I don’t see a need to embellish.

[-] Kalkaline@leminal.space 7 points 2 months ago

Without seeing the document you're not going to see the whole picture. This is a summary of that document that has some inconsistent wording, but until the article and the document are compared you can't even say what the truth is.

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[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

So are they just going to pray in class now? Practice their purity vows? Maybe we can have the creepy dad wedding right there in school.

States rights is just a cover for them, so fuck it let's do some pre-empting from the federal level. Either that or use the Dept. of Education to put up billboards around Florida's interstates. Give them Sex Ed one way or the other since they don't want to have consent as a thing either.

[-] 800XL@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well lookie here. It's Big-Government DeSantis creating the Junior Anti-Sex League.

The Junior Anti-Sex League represents the Party's efforts to control the most intimate aspects of individuals' lives in "1984".

Unlike Winston, [Julia] had grasped the inner meaning of the Party’s sexual puritanism. It was not merely that the sex instinct created a world of its own which was outside the Party’s control and which therefore had to be destroyed if possible. What was more important was that sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable because it could be transformed into war-fever and leader-worship.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago

Won't anybody think of the children!?

The age old adage of the oppressor

[-] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 months ago

Many, many doctors and health professionals are saying Florida Gov. Ron Desantis has a truncated and bifurcated chungus, and this has led to his fear of high school anatomy class.

[-] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 9 points 2 months ago

The secret noo noo goes into the other secret place and that is how you go to jail. End 2024 lesson.

[-] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Sadly, I was only able to find a fifteen year old, potato quality clip of Mel Brooks demonstrating what DeSantis just did to sex ed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYlepBd8cf4

[-] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

the woowoo - perhaps the most significant female psychological component known to mankind

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Has the tourism industry in Florida taking a hit yet?

I've been there probably five times in my life, the last time being right before this dumbass was elected; remember back when they were sandbagging all the black voters, booting hundreds of thousands of people from the voter rolls right before election day? Feels like it was thirty years ago.

Edit: forgot to say, have passed on two or three more opportunities to go there and no plans to go back. I'm glad I got to see it before it becomes covered in dead seaweed piled 10 meters deep but if there's one thing I don't like to be surrounded by more than seaweed it's uneducated dumbasses.

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[-] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

What about the rhythm method? Don't forget to dig up that relic!

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