[Dallas News] AUSTIN — Nearly 400 Texans signed up to virtually testify before the State Board of Education, with most urging the board to include sxxual orientation, gender identity and non-heteronormative standards in comprehensive sex education in a lengthy hearing Tuesday.
How many were testifying from outside "Keep Austin Weird"?
Others pressed the board to include teaching climate change in core science courses in the state during the meeting.
How about Climatology, without a fixed conclusion?
This all comes after a proposed revision to Texas' health education standards, which could potentially add the teaching of birth control options, along with the abstinence-only option, to middle schoolers. Most notably, however, the proposed revision did not address gender identity and sxxuality.
Such education was a paid-for, after-school option when I was a Sophomore, because my parents chose not to teach me. Gender idenity was not included.
"We actively teach that only heteronormative love exists, only heteronormative families exist, only heteronormative sxx exists," said Cynthia Soliz, current chair of Austin ISD Student Health Advisory Committee.
Maybe you could teach non-heteronormative stuff after class, for a fee, or you could donate you time to teach it?
More than 80% of school districts in the state either teach abstinence-only or provide no sxxual education at all, though more than 60% of high school seniors say they have been sxxually active, according to the Texas Freedom Network, a non-partisan network of over 150,000 members who support religious freedom, individual liberties and public education. 
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