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Queering sex education in schools would benefit all pupils | Kennedy Walker

All power to the pupil activists drawing attention to the lack of information about LGBT issues in sex education in England
‘Being LGBT+ in school can be an isolating experience.’ Photograph: Twitter

All I remember from my relationship and sex education in school is phallic objects, condoms and everyone being terrified of pregnancy. Looking back it’s clear how disjointed and inadequate this was at a time when I was struggling with the complexity of being a black, queer, working-class boy navigating life inside and outside school.

If I had been given information about the kind of relationships I would later come to be in and given the space to

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