Texas Scorecard by Robert Montoya August 14, 2024
A former sex educator sounds the alarm about the nonprofit that has marketed itself towards minors. This nonprofit also boasts of having the second-largest LGBT library in Texas.
Monica Cline was disgusted by her two visits to Out Youth Austin in the late-1990s. She worked as a sex educator and HIV prevention specialist in the 1990s.
In her career, Cline focused on homeless youth and LGBT communities in Austin. She worked for allgo, the Austin Latina/Latino Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Organization. “Once I was hired, they said I needed to learn how to teach sex education to children,” she said. To get this training, she went across the street where the director of sex education at Planned Parenthood Greater Austin mentored her.
“I remember that my supervisor worked closely with those youth [that] tended to prostitute themselves, and especially with homosexual relationships,” she said. “Some of them could be in their early 20s, but these were minor children.” As part of her training, Cline was told that there are parents who will not tolerate their children being homosexual. This then leads to these children leaving home and becoming homeless. “This ideology continues to say that these children then have to resort to prostitution,” Cline said. “A lot of times, it’s homosexual relationships that they’re having.”
What disturbed Cline was that she found the sex education system at the time wasn’t trying to rescue these minors from this dangerous and destructive lifestyle. Instead, those in the field provided these minors with free condoms, lubricants, and access to testing. She said this attitude permeates the sex education ideology to this day. “I didn’t like it. I didn’t agree with it. But I’ll admit I wasn’t involved in doing anything to stop it either.”
More:
https://texasscorecard.com/investigations/the-nonprofit-pushing-sexualization-on-minors/
