The Texas State Board of Education has made a decison about what is appropriate material for public school textbooks in Texas.
The board is meeting in Austin and declined to give preliminary approval to some health instruction manuals for middle school and high school students.
The manuals covered a variety of topics, but it was sections on gender identity, contraception and self-harm that prompted the refusal.
School districts across the state must now decide on their own how to address the health curriculum standards that were approved by the state board a year ago.
That vote approved, among other things, lessons on birth control other than abstinence-only.
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