SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change released Same Shame, New Name: Debunking the “Success Sequence”, a new policy brief examining the growing wave of state legislation requiring instruction on so-called “success sequencing” in public schools. Marketed as a pathway out of poverty, the “success sequence” repackages long-discredited abstinence-only ideology, reinforces harmful gender norms, stigmatizes LGBTQIA+ youth and marginalized families, and ignores the systemic barriers that shape young people’s lives and economic outcomes.