As a teenager in Guatemala, I never received information about sexual health or healthy relationships. Our schools did not have nurses or social workers to speak with students about these issues, and I definitely couldn’t count on my parents. It wasn’t until I was an adult that I had a safe space to talk about healthy relationships, gender-identity and sexuality.
Reform is needed to ensure equitable access to sex education. Healing to Action’s SexEd Works campaign is fighting to ensure that the community has a voice in how sex education is administered, that there’s funding for equal access to sex ed regardless of the zip code and that support exists for parents to understand it and teach kids about healthy relationships at home.
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