For those who need help right now with questions about pregnancy and parenting, in addition to Scarleteen’s library of sex education, we also have direct services for one-on-one support and you can check them out here: www.scarleteen.com/ask

s.e. smith wrote a detailed guide on what using T can mean for pregnancy and fertility for people with uteruses, whether you do or don’t want to get pregnant, or want to think about having children in the future.

Sometimes the best way to learn is from someone with personal experience. We love featuring essays like Roselil Aalund's that put a personal touch on a factual resource.

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"There’s a future you who doesn’t depend on the state for anything because they are seen and held and loved by community, who can reach out their own hand to the next generations of queer and trans people and pass along some of this stuff to them, just like I’m passing⁠ it to you now." 🖤

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They way he said it also insinuates that disabled people can't have sex, also very outdated views.

As writer Summer Tao notes on the sexual education platform @scarleteen.com, “the biggest harm of desexualisation is that it deprives us of our bodily, sexual, and reproductive agency.

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So, we celebrate every win. That includes every year we make it one more year doing this work to our standards: based on what young people are asking us or otherwise showing a need for, that is free for ALL, that is accurate and caring, without concessions, without copouts, and without apology.

None of that has been easy: it’s always been an ongoing struggle just to sustain the space to do the work! Sex education, especially the kind we do that is centered in pleasure-based, queer and progressive frameworks is still not supported by many people, especially people in power.

We’ve published thousands of original, often groundbreaking articles and advice columns that hundreds of millions of people have read. We've helped hundreds of thousands of young people directly in our direct services.

We’ve grown into a massive clearinghouse and direct services center we’ve sustained for 27 years today. Scarleteen was one of the first and remains one of the only truly comprehensive, inclusive and dedicated sources of sex and relationships education online.

we were hustling to create, launch, build and run the first comprehensive dedicated sex ed website for young folks. We did it without funding, with little outside help, and a lot of fighting with code we were still learning how to do and WYSIWYG’s that were supposed to make things easier but didn't.

When those of us who were around at the start of Scarleteen weren’t trying to grow out our baby-bangs or keep from tripping over our platform sandals, protesting the wars or the rampant xenophobia of the time, trying to explain what sexual harassment was, or juggling way too many gigs...

Thank you so much for your support. We couldn’t do this work without folks like you who see the value in our work and the impact it has in our communities💓