Ref. 90 promotes sexualization of children

For those in support of Referendum 90, consider the curriculum. Comprehensive Sex Education promotes the sexualization of students from kindergarten through 12th grade, normalizing gender confusion, masturbation and encouraging children from elementary school on to seek sexual pleasure at any age, at any time.

One of the curricula in compliance with SB5395, the Mandated Comprehensive Sex Education Bill, provides instructors with material for anatomy lessons for kindergarten classes. Why does a five-year-old need to know what a vulva is, much less a clitoris? Step four suggests that students label these and other specific parts of female and male genitalia on a diagram at the front of the classroom with sticky notes.

Proponents of Referendum 90 speak to the importance of sex education in school, I agree that sex education is necessary. What I disagree with is the degree to which this curriculum promotes the sexualization of students in the classroom, starting as early as age 5. Reject Referendum 90 to reject sexually explicit content that is far from age-appropriate.

Andi Nelson

Edmonds