An op-ed about how Sexual Risk Avoidance sex ed programs leave many young people in the dark about sex, sexuality and healthy relationships, and why we to work together to help improve sex ed for all.

For Trans Awareness Week, our youth activist Maxine Spencer raises the question to cisgender folks: What more are you pledging to do for trans folks?

"We shouldn't have to sacrifice our safety and health just because higher up officials feel that teaching students about sex ed promotes sex."

"I grew up with shame and stigma surrounding my sexuality and it took me searching for these answers on my own to have a clue of how STD’s, female/ male condoms, pregnancies, and my own body worked."

"I fight for sex education for all because I want the next generation to be educated on an important topic that is taken for granted."

A lack of affirming education clearly leads to a lack of knowledge, which leaves the majority of people clueless of a lot of useful and stigma-free information that is out there.