Presentation Planning

Background on the Women’s Center - use website history

- The Women's Center fosters community, equity, and empowerment around gender and sexual

identities through exploration, education, support, and leadership development. The Women's

Center supports and affirms every student inclusive of sexual orientation, gender, gender identity,

and expression.

GCSU demographics

2017 -

Asexual: 4.2 %

Bisexual: 4.4 %

Gay: 0.9 %

Lesbian: 0.7 %

Pansexual: 0.9 %

Queer: 0.3 %

Questioning: 1.0 %

Same Gender Loving 0.1 %

Straight/Heterosexual 86.9 %

Another identity: 0.6 %

Total LQBTQ+ pop - 13.1%

2019 -

Asexual: 0.5 %

Bisexual: 8.4 %

Gay: 0.9 %

Lesbian: 1.7 %

Pansexual: 1.5 %

Queer: 0.4 %
Questioning: 1.2 %

Straight/Heterosexual 85.1 %

Another identity: 0.4 %

Total - 15%

Sexually active - 65% of all students, 3.9% have had treatments for STDs

Why we need this project - why its meaningful

- We are located in the Bible belt which greatly affects sex education

- Georgia schools are required to provide sex education and AIDS prevention education.

- Curriculum is not required to be comprehensive.

- Instruction must emphasize abstinence from sexual activity until marriage as an

important personal goal.

- Curriculum is not required to include instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity.

- Curriculum is not required to include instruction on consent. However age-appropriate

sexual abuse and assault awareness and prevention education is required in kindergarten

through grade nine.

- Parents may remove their children from all or part of sex education instruction with

written notification.

- Georgia has no standard regarding medically accurate sex education instruction.

- Sex ed is typically aimed at the heterosexual population

- Sex ed is often abstinence based

- Give personal testimony of my experience with this - tie into why I want to do this

project

- Sex education does not include much, if any, information for people that are sexually active

beyond encouraging contraceptives

 - Things get left out - ex: pee after sex

- Can possibly add a short sex ed video that highlights some of these issues

What I did

- Researching resources that already exist and examining the gap, what is needed

- Creating the script

- Approval process

- Revisions, revisions, revisions

Other work done this semester

- SAAM Movie/paint night

- Tabling

- Buttons, ribbons, flyers

- Marketing - show flyers

- Take Back the Night

- Denim Day