LAFAYETTE, California – Some Northern California parents are furious after learning that sex-ed instructors in their school are asking their 13- and 14-year-old students if they’re “ready for sex.”

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School officials at Acalanes High School in Lafayette brought in local Planned Parenthood representatives to conduct their sex-ed classes. Parents are upset that that was done without their knowledge or consent.

Among the class materials used by Planned Parenthood is a diagram called a “genderbread” person, made to look like a holiday gingerbread cookie.  The diagram encourages students to consider how they can be non-gender, bi-gender or multi-gender.

Brad Dacus of the Pacific Justice Institute tells EAGnews, “Those that have gender identity dysphoria – who do have gender identity issues – they need love, they need counseling to help them work through it in a very constructive, remedial way. [Planned Parenthood’s] approach only increases the confusion.”

Surveys Planned Parenthood uses are structured to teach them that it’s OK to start engaging in sex even at their age. A worksheet that was handed out that included a checklist entitled, “Sex Check! Are You Ready for Sex?” Confused and bewildered students felt they were being pressured to start having sex, according to a Fox News story.

Cultural Analyst Laurie Higgins of the Illinois Family Institute tells EAGnews, “Planned Parenthood and everyone else who promotes sex-ed wants morality-free, boundary-free sexual activity for teens. And anything goes.”

Dacus says he believes Planned Parenthood representatives are definitely the wrong people to use. “They make money off of these kids engaging in these activities and there’s a clear conflict of interest going on here,” he said.

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According to Higgins, “Many, many schools in comprehensive sex-ed classes are teaching what amounts to leftist assumptions about sexuality. And these are not facts.”

She further states, “We need conservative parents to understand they’re promoting these assumptions, these non-facts, as facts to children who don’t have the awareness, the experience, the knowledge base to understand that these are not facts. These are assumptions and very troubling assumptions.”

Dacus says Acalanes may be in violation of the law by doing this. He says California has specific prohibitions against surveying kids and asking them about sex, morality, family life or religion without the express, written consent of the parents.  “This school district did not abide by that at all,” he said.

The Pacific Justice Institute is representing the outraged parents. PJI lawyers have already sent a demand letter to the school district, which says it will need two weeks to respond.

“Make no mistake, we intend to hold this school district and virtually every school district in the country that does this responsible for their actions. Our children deserve no less than that kind of a response to make sure that this doesn’t happen in the future,” Dacus noted.

In addition, parents have started a petition that is asking the district to provide a sex-ed preview course offered live to parents by the same person who will be teaching the kids in order to give parents full disclosure and the knowledge necessary to make an informed decision about whether or not to opt their children out of the class.

Higgins says it is difficult for parents to keep on top of everything that is taking place at their children’s schools. “This is incredibly time consuming for parents who decades ago could trust the wisdom and the judgment of teachers so they didn’t have to do this. But we can no longer rely on that and that makes parenting that much more difficult.”

Dacus encourages parents to go to their website and download an opt-out form they have made available to the public that they can use.

Dacus warns that if parents think they don’t have to worry about this because they don’t live in California, they should ask themselves if there’s a Planned Parenthood in their community. And if there is, he says they can expect this same presentation coming to their school.