Health education that fails to acknowledge and celebrate the diversity of Nebraska families isn't teaching personal health and wellbeing, and it isn't teaching young people how to be engaged members of society. All youth and their families deserve to be represented in public education.

— Ace

As a former youth advocate and a current attorney working on juvenile justice issues, I have come to understand comprehensive LGBTQ+ inclusive sexual health education as a key to healthy adolescent development. Sex education is a public safety issue and should be widely available to all young people.

— Vic

Education is vital for students to be able to understand their own bodies and needs, and those of the people around them. Inclusive standards make everyone safer and smarter!

— Anna

I have seen too many children, adolescents and young adults suffer effects of poor health outcomes that result from incomplete education in these areas. Thorough educational programs are vital in promoting good health behaviors, protecting individual rights and freedoms, and providing a safer more inclusive environment in which Nebraska's children can learn effectively.

— Amy

I have an LGBT child going into high school and I feel that her earlier school years could have been much better with much less bullying had she and her fellow classmates been properly educated on the subject.

— Rose

Anti-LGBTQ+ bias is a public health issue that needs to be addressed. LGBTQ+ youth and families deserve to belong and have adequate health and sex education in the same way that all youth deserve to have comprehensive, inclusive, medically accurate sex education and sexual health promotion along with other areas of health education. Those who oppose inclusion and education should not trample on the rights and needs of others.

— Patricia

I grew up in central Nebraska, and these health standards would have made a world of difference in recognizing and prioritizing my own health, identity, sexuality and worth in relationships.

— Isabel

Sex education can feel uncomfortable to many of us who grew up without it and in a culture where certain topics feel taboo, but I believe whole heartedly that honest and age-appropriate education can help create positive outcomes for the next generation.

— Jessica

When students are left to find this info on their own, they get all kinds of misinformation or information couched in toxic misogynistic terms. The majority of parents and families want this education to be happening in schools.

— Betsy