A sex education group that refers minors to a transgender hormone usage provider is contracted to teach Dallas ISD students about gender, sexual orientation, and “LGBTQ+ bias,” according to internal documents obtained by The Dallas Express through a public information request.
Dallas ISD originally partnered with the North Texas Alliance to Reduce Unintended Pregnancy in Teens (NTARUPT) in May of last year on an after-school sex education program for high schoolers. Internal documents obtained by The Dallas Express show that the second lesson in the course is titled “Gender and Sexual Orientation” and will cover “LGBTQ+ Bias and Its Effects.” Other lessons cover contraception, HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and how to use a condom.
A formal agreement for the partnership was signed on January 31, 2023. The program is titled “Positive Prevention Plus.” It requires opt-in from parents for individual students to participate.
“The Dallas ISD high school campus will be charged with disseminating and collecting all parent consent forms from each student who will participate in after-school instruction and/or programming over the programming instructional resources,” an opt-in form reads.
“Positive Prevention Plus” was created in California in 1993, implemented in California public schools in 1999, and is regularly updated, according to the curriculum website. The course includes “Guidelines for working with LGBTQ students,” the website states. The 2021 high school course included lessons on abortion, gender, sexual orientation, and LGBTQ issues.
One California parent, John Andrews of the Murrieta Valley Unified School District, said the Positive Prevention Plus course included photos and drawings of sexual activity, the Daily Caller reported.
“They talk about anal and oral sex as an alternative to regular sex because you can’t get pregnant,” Andrews said, per the Daily Caller.
The agreement between Dallas ISD and NTARUPT states that lesson components of “Positive Prevention Plus” can be edited. The agreement includes specific mentions of removed content: references to teensource.org, which directs women to abortion clinics, and references to abortion in a family planning lesson.
Robyn Harris, the executive director of Dallas ISD’s communications team, told The Dallas Express that the course will be entirely run by NTARUPT. The estimated cost to implement the program is $15,750 annually, which Harris claimed will be covered by NTARUPT. Harris said no schools have adopted the program yet, so a complete curriculum is not presently available.
“The Partnering Agency will work with the requesting principal and Campus After School Programming Coordinator to provide the after-school programming directly or to train the campus level presenter(s) (chosen by the principal) who will provide instruction over the curriculum to students,” one of the documents obtained by The Dallas Express reads.
Healthy Futures of Texas (HFT), which merged with NTARUPT last year, said it is working with Dallas ISD to have campuses adopt the program.
“The agreement was executed in the spring semester of 2023,” an HFT spokesperson previously told The Dallas Express. “We are currently working with principals to execute the program, and then opt-in forms will be sent to parents. This is a voluntary after-school program for 9th graders that parents can choose to opt their teens into. It provides information on teen pregnancy prevention and healthy relationships.”
HFT’s “data + resources for youth” webpage directs users to a group called Resource Center, which facilitates transgender hormone usage and other sex alteration services, as reported by The Dallas Express. HFT describes Resource Center as a “trusted leader that empowers the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQIA+) communities through improving health and wellness, strengthening families and communities, and providing transformative education and advocacy.”
The “data + resources for youth” website on HFT’s website links to Sex etc., which promoted “National Masturbation Month” as a way to “give yourself some love.” The Sex etc. website includes a “Condom Game” webpage, abortion promotion, and a “Crash Course in Gender & Gender Identity” that encourages transgender hormone usage and surgeries.
Other groups advertised by HFT for youth include Power to Decide and Love is Respect, both of which promote transgender hormone usage and sex alteration surgeries.
The outline of the Dallas ISD after-school curriculum detailed in the documents has 13 lessons listed: Life Planning, Gender and Sexual Orientation, Healthy Relationships, Relationship Abuse, Human Trafficking, Preventing an Unplanned Pregnancy, Teen Pregnancy: Choices and Responsibilities, The HIV/AIDS Epidemic, Preventing Sexually Transmitted Infections, Protection and Communication Using Condoms Correctly and Consistently, Media and Peer Pressure, Accessing Community Resources, and Steps to Success.
HFT launched the Texas is Ready Coalition last year as a part of a merger that included the Texas Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. The coalition advocates against abstinence-only sex education and parental opt-in requirements in Texas public schools. It received $5.2 million of taxpayer money from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from FY 2015 to FY 2020 through the federal Teen Pregnancy Prevention program.