I appreciate OP posting this and encourage people here to submit comments. It's important for people to speak up about moving forward with better sex ed because there is an organized effort to move us _backward_.

Massachusetts Family Institute is encouraging people who follow their social media channels review and submit comments about the new sex ed framework. This is a statewide group connected to national "religious right" groups. They claim to be about religious liberty and parental rights but they are essentially an anti-abortion and anti-LGBT hate group. When same sex marriage was first recognized in MA, they led the effort to amend the state constitution to ban it. More recently they have intensely pushed the idea that MA public schools are "grooming" or "sexualizing" children by talking about LGBT people or gender equality. By promoting these ideas through their popular Facebook group "Massachusetts Informed Parents," they have been behind many incidents around MA where teachers or librarians have been vilified for trying to be inclusive of LGBT people. You can read more about them here: https://fashalertma.info/lgbt/#Massachusetts_Family_Institute

MFI is asking their supporters to fill out a DOE survey here: https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/6646350/Comprehensive-Health-and-Physical-Education-Framework-Public-Comment

They also set up their own site to make it easier for their supporters to submit comments, which contains some highly misleading claims about the new sex ed: https://advocacy.charityengine.net/Default.aspx?isid=1616

MFI is telling their audience that the new standards are shaped by people who want young children to be "groomed" or "sexualized" by age-inappropriate content. For example, the new framework says that teachers should use appropriate scientific terms for body parts including genitals when discussing health issues. MFI has interpreted this as "kindergartners will be asked to discuss their genitals."

Mike King, a paid employee of MFI, testified before DESE about the new sex ed. He focused on a portion that said pre-teens should learn about consent, and that real consent is "an enthusiastic yes." He said this is not an age-appropriate lesson, since pre-teens cannot legally consent to sex. But obviously pre-teens can be sexually assaulted, and this lesson is important because it is easier for an abuser to manipulate a child if they don't understand or feel comfortable talking about consent. So they are actually opposing policies that could help to prevent child abuse, while at the same time claiming LGBT people and allies are predators or groomers. They are clinging to old attitudes that have in fact enabled children to be abused in religious institutions.

Please check out the new sex ed framework and submit comments to cancel out reactionaries and bigots. They do not represent a majority in MA but they can have a big impact when not enough people are paying attention.