1. United States
2. Pa.
3. Letter

While everyone agrees that children should be protected for an abundance of sexualized exposure, HR 7661 Stop the Sexualization of Children Act is merely a vehicle to punish educators and schools, while banning books and restricting knowledge. Educators do not expose students to sexuality or sexually orie he hormonal changes of puberty. nted materials to groom but rather to ensure students understand how the human body works, provide sex education, and allow students to better navigate t et dreams, and the beginnings of attraction in a healthy and constructive way. se parents may be working and have limited time or desire to navigate awkward conversations such as procreation, abstinence, puberty, menstrual cycles, w This bill strips funding and polices what those educators can and can't say, while limiting the education of children, especially low income children who and teens to heterosexual or homosexual relationships, poor sexual choices, and pubescent stereotypes, which maybe warped and twisted for entertainment value, it is vital children and teens retain an educational avenue, even if it is purely an optional program or library content, that allows them to rece ive a fact-based, educator or schools administration vetted source of information Considering the media and entertainment industries have unrestricted license, due to our constitutionally protected freedom of speech, to expose children terrible they can be. We don't want to make this situation worse for another generation. ing targeted by pedophiles, abusers, and traffickers who will take advantage of ignorance and miseducation when parents and educators are unable to fill We do not want our children relying on a single option for information about sexuality that may shape their adult experiences, and put them at risk of be that need. Growing up in an inner city school, before moving to a better district as a teen, i was able to see first hand how early issues begin and how ers of children within our society. And the federal government needs to focus less on make believe problems like "teachers making kids trans or gay" and focus more on identified sexual abus