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You can sorta avoid this problem by just sticking to biology. If you have a uterus then you should have periods. If you have a cervix you should have Pap smears done routinely.
Of course the immediate problem with this is that kids probably don't know wtf a cervix is. Some of the stuff that my nurses hear is wild. Lots of novel contraceptive techniques like "olive oil kills sperm so you can't get pregnant if you use it as lube" that just spread like wildfire among middle school and high school students. Or air killing sperm. That went around for a while.
You have to meet people where they're at and just saying things like women should get Pap smears is a whole fucking hell of a lot easier to understand than like people born with a cervix should have Pap smears.
Excellent point.
The reality is that as far as health education goes, you need to educate to make your material accessible to people with the lowest level of literacy and functional intellectual capacity. Keep it simple, and repeat it a lot.
Because in any society, there is a statistically significant number of people who are just not smart, at all. So if the intellectually slower kids tune it out when you begin to discuss stuff that is more complex than a basic "how to" manual, you will get a lot of unintended pregnancies.
And transgender issues are not relevant to pregnancy prevention and hygiene.