Sexual health is vast and is influenced by culture, religion, racism, colonialism, nationalism, classism, ableism, and the multitude of additional ways that oppression operates. These systems interact and create complex forms of both privilege and oppression. 

For the development of this report, a Youth Sexual Health Program Board was intentionally recruited to represent a variety of intersectional identities with people who experience diverse oppressions and privileges within intersecting systems to speak to the complex ways identity interfaces with sexual health. 

There is nuance and fluidity to how one identifies, and this same nuance and flexibility needs to be reflected in sexual health education. It is critical to discuss and include gender and sexual identity in sexual education and the ways gender and sexual identity interface with other identities like race and ethnicity. Further, people with disabilities also have varying gender, sexual, and racial identities and need to be seen fully. It is critical to not silo this analysis and to understand that sexual health is embedded within each of these systems. Simply addressing sexual health within one system does not mitigate the harm being caused within another system.

Access is a critical value that must be prioritized across the multiple intersections that people live, and access looks different based on the compounding identities one holds. Recommendations for improving access to sexual health education for people with disabilities and intersectional identities are included throughout the anti-oppressive recommendations section of this report.