Former high school dropout and teen mom Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is proudly proclaiming her ongoing opposition to comprehensive sex education for children in her home state. Last year, she became a 36-year-old grandmother after the underage girlfriend of her 17-year-old son gave birth to his child.

“I have been known in this state for several years now, even before I ran for office, because I was advocating for our children in schools to get comprehensive sex ed out of our schools,” Boebert recently told Steve Bannon, former advisor to former President Donald Trump, on the right-wing media outlet Real America’s Voice.

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Unlike abstinence-only sex education, which tells adolescents not to have sex, comprehensive sex education offers an ongoing, age-appropriate curriculum that teaches young people about protecting their overall sexual well-being in different social and sexual relationships. Comprehensive sex ed can also acknowledge the existence of LGBTQ+ identities, something that Republicans and other social conservatives generally oppose in schools.

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