#confidence and trust is power
genuinely so fucking tired of people leveraging the “groomer” argument against people who support sex ed because scientific literature over decades shows that comprehensive sex education starting around kindergarten actually prevents children from being sexually abused and groomed because it teaches children the correct words for their body parts and also teaches them concepts of privacy, personal space, bodily autonomy, the difference between appropriate and inappropriate touching, and the fact that sex is something that only adults do. children with this knowledge are not only better equipped to identify abuse and predatory behavior and communicate that its happening to a trusted adult, but also prevent it from happening in the first place by recognizing when something is happening that shouldn’t.
sex education does not sexualize children, it prevents children from being sexualized. anyone who is against early foundational sex education and claims they are doing it to protect children is a fucking liar.
This This This This This This This This one hundred times THIS. This needs to be said over and over and over again. I believe in Jesus. I love God. AND I LOVE KIDS. And I would literally fucking die before allowing my precious children to go out into the hell on earth we live in now and face predators without every single weapon in my arsenal. Specifically:
Knowing about their bodies EMPOWERS children.
Knowing about consent EMPOWERS children.
Knowing what’s typical and what’s special when it comes to their development is EMPOWERING and equips children to become teens and adults who SUPPORT their peers who aren’t straight and cis.
Knowing exactly what is appropriate and what is not between an adult and child EMPOWERS children.
Knowing that they are not bad because something inappropriate felt good EMPOWERS children and SAVES THEM from trying to weather continued abuse because they are afraid or ashamed about their confusion.
Knowing that no matter what, consent is theirs and theirs alone to give or withdraw and that they have a safe adult to talk to EMPOWERS children to sound the alarm before abuse progresses.
Knowledge is power. Information is power. Without it, children are literally powerless.
And I don’t see these people volunteering to accompany their children everywhere they go to personally protect them.
Anyone who would withhold lifesaving and empowering information from innocent children … who would take their power and words and force them to go defenceless into the world literally would prefer children be abused. They are literally saying children deserve to be made victims.
