A Sex Ed Curriculum Built on Science, Not Opinion | TKRL's New Curriculum | Table Talk with TKRL

Public school health class teaches one worldview: that you can change who you are, and your body, with what you say. Andrew Tran built something different. His new curriculum for TKRL starts from the opposite premise, that your body is part of who you are, not something separate, and he spent a year building the science to back it up. Andrew is a fertility care practitioner and a teacher at St. Bridget's. He built the curriculum on real science, not just values, and it now addresses 32 of the roughly 40 state health standards for high schoolers, without teaching abortion or contraception as the default answer. In this conversation, Andrew explains how the curriculum handles those topics honestly, why men have a 24-hour hormone cycle too, and how his own view of the pro-life movement changed while building it. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - "Your body is part of who you are" 0:29 - Welcome, meet Andrew Tran 1:04 - How Andrew connected with TKRL through St. Bridget's 1:31 - Why TKRL needed its own curriculum 1:39 - Andrew's background as a fertility care practitioner 2:17 - How long the curriculum took to build 3:03 - What's missing from most pro-life health education 3:26 - Public school vs. TKRL: two different views of the body 4:37 - How many state health standards the curriculum addresses 5:37 - How the curriculum handles abortion and birth control 6:32 - Teaching women to track their own hormone cycle 7:11 - Men have a cycle too 8:15 - Where the "control your body" mindset comes from 9:51 - "Your soul contains your body" 10:34 - Andrew's own struggle with the pro-life label 11:43 - What changed his mind 12:04 - What TKRL actually offers: adoption, fertility care, healing after abortion and miscarriage 13:03 - "We'll lead you forward, but we'll also help carry you" 13:15 - Teacher and nurse training already underway 14:02 - New YouTube education series announcement 14:58 - Andrew's closing thoughts ABOUT TABLE TALK: Real conversations about life, faith, and the courage it takes to choose both. Table Talk is produced by Tulare-Kings Resources for Life, serving Tulare and Kings Counties since 1985. 📍 Schools and parents interested in the curriculum: call 559.732.5000 or email [email protected]. 📍 Connect with TKRL: Website: TKRL.org Phone: 559.732.5000 Facebook:   / tkrlresources   Instagram: instagram.com/tkrlresources TikTok:   / tkrlresources   💜 Support our mission: TKRL.org/donate #TableTalk #TKRL #HealthEducation #ProLife #CentralValley #FertilityCare