Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful Education (FAIR) Education Act: “The FAIR Education Act updates California’s education guidelines to integrate age-appropriate, factual information about the role and contributions of people with disabilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people into social studies and history lessons. These education guidelines already include the contributions of both men and women, people of color, diverse ethnic communities and other historically underrepresented groups. Signed into law on July 14, 2011, these updated guidelines went into effect on January 1, 2012″ (GSA Network).

FAIR Act FAQ (from the California Department of Education)

The California Healthy Youth Act (CHYA), Education Code (EC) §§ 51930-51939, which took effect January 1, 2016, requires school districts to provide students with integrated, accurate, and inclusive comprehensive sexual health and HIV prevention education at least once in middle school and once in high school. Among other things, the California Healthy Youth Act strengthened and updated Education Code requirements to ensure that students of all genders and sexual orientations are affirmatively included and reflected in instruction on healthy relationships and comprehensive sexual health and HIV prevention education.

California Healthy Youth Act FAQs (ACLU Northern California)

California Healthy Youth Act LGBTQ Inclusivity Requirements and How They Interact with Parental Opt-out (ACLU Northern California)