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Tanya Turner
LGBTQ Inclusive Sex Education

While the lessons from Sexy Sex Ed had a positive impact on me and the way I felt toward my body, I left the workshop feeling angry. Angry that my classmates did not receive this education. Angry that it took me 18 years to receive the sex education I knew I needed and deserved.

LGBTQ Inclusive Sex Education
Tanya Turner
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Sex Ed with DB Podcast Interviews Tanya Turner
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We Need to Talk About Sex Education

We Need to Talk About Sex Education

The Humanist

These national efforts aren’t out there on their own. To spread healthy sexual education in Appalachian Kentucky and surrounding rural communities, Tanya Turner designed a Sexy Sex Ed workshop that focuses on consent, safety, and anatomy. “When a kid starts talking, and they touch their ear, we give them language for ‘ear.’…[B]ut when they touch their vagina, we’re like, ‘Don’t touch yourself there.’ And we don’t even call it vagina. We don’t even give language—the bare minimum—that someone needs to advocate for themselves and about what’s going on in their world.”

Only 13 States Offer Medically Accurate Sex Education. Here’s How to Fill in the Gaps

Only 13 States Offer Medically Accurate Sex Education. Here’s How to Fill in the Gaps

Yes! Magazine

“When somebody calls you and says they have a big group of kids that need sex ed, and they don’t know where else to go, it’s very difficult to turn people down,” Turner said. “It’s taken on a life of its own at this point.”

Requirements for sex education vary broadly across the country. Only 24 states mandate general sex education, with just 18 requiring information about birth control and only 13 requiring medically accurate sex education. The Guttmacher Institute reports that declines in formal sex education, especially concerning birth control, for young people are most concentrated in rural areas. It reports that the percentage of rural young women who were taught about birth control decreased from 71 to 48 percent from 2006 to 2013.

Podcast: Sex & Sex Ed

Season of the Bitch is a podcast hosted, run, and produced entirely by a leftist gaggle of women. In this episode featuring Tanya Turner, they talk about sex and sexy sex ed, while exploring some serious questions: How is sex related to capitalism? How is sex ed taught to us?? WHY IS IT TAUGHT THAT WAY??? How can we switch that??

Sex, Consent, and Safety

Sex, Consent, and Safety

Hazard Herald

“A lot of young people would say, ‘We don’t get sex ed,’ or ‘I want to talk about sexuality,’” she said. 

Since then, Turner said, she has been building on her workshop, adapting and making it better over the years. “This class is for all ages and all bodies,” Turner said. 

During the class, Turner went over the anatomy of the reproductive systems in the human bodies, informed the attendees on what bodily fluids transmit sexually transmitted diseases and explained how to have safe sex. 

CNN: What women in Appalachian Kentucky really want

CNN: What women in Appalachian Kentucky really want

CNN

Children and young adults need safe spaces to talk, she says. They should understand the importance of consent and the way their bodies work. She need only think about the young people who've shown up, including the six transgender students who joined her for a sex ed workshop this year, to know that the hunger for authentic conversation is real.