Table 3.

Main legislation in Spain.

Legislation	Content	Comments
Organic Law 8/1985 (LODE) [55]	It regulates the right to education.	No reference to sexuality education.
Organic Law 1/1990 of 3 October (LOGSE) [56]	General organization of the education system.	Sexuality education in the different educational stages and areas on a cross-cutting basis. No reference to gender.
Organic Law 10/2002, of 23 December (LOCE) [57]	Quality of education.	Elimination of sexuality education. An exclusively reproductive vision of sexuality. This law was never implemented.
Organic Law 2/2006, of 3 May (LOE) [58]	Education.	Gender equality approach through coeducation, prevention of gender violence, and respect for affective-sexual diversity. Inclusive and non-sexist perspective in secondary education. The subject “Education for Citizenship” is incorporated. It maintains sexuality education as a cross-cutting subject (as in LOGSE).
Organic Law 3/2007 of 22 March [59]	Equality between women and men.	It refers to the different dimensions of sexual and reproductive health: motherhood, fatherhood, leaves, sexual harassment.
Strategic Plan on Equal Opportunities 2008–2011 [60]	Two of its objectives are to improve women’s health and address gender-sensitive diseases.	Inclusion of prevention of heterosexual transmission of HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health programs in the services provided by the National Health System.
Organic Law 2/2010 of 3 March [61]	Sexual and reproductive health and the voluntary interruption of pregnancy.	Sexuality education is included as a subject recommended by the Spanish State. It refers to affective-sexual and reproductive education in the formal context of the education system.
Organic Law 8/2013 of 9 December (LOMCE) [62]	It improves the quality of education.	It does not cover issues such as equal opportunities for men and women or sexuality. For this reason, sexuality education was not addressed in classes.
Coeducation Plan 2017–2021 for schools and educational communities in Navarra [63]	SKOLAE Program	It incorporates “learning about sexuality and proper treatment (...), self-knowledge towards the construction of relationships and love based on acceptance and respect for diversity, free from chauvinist violence.”
Law 4/2018 of 8 October [64]	For a Society Free of Gender Violence in Castile-La Mancha.	It introduces affective-sexual education on a cross-cutting basis in the syllabus of all subjects, elements that value equality, promoting women’s visibility, and, in history, the origin, development, and achievements of the feminist movement and women’s history.
II Strategic Plan for Equal Opportunities for Men and Women in Castile-La Mancha (2019–2024) [65]	Equal Opportunities Strategy.	It is made explicit that two of the priority areas for action are affective-sexual education and gender-based violence prevention.
Organic Law 3/2020 of 29 December (LOMLOE) [66]	Amending Organic Law 2/2006 on Education (LOE), of 3 May.	It adopts a gender equality approach through coeducation, including, among the principles and aims of education, the adaptation of affective-sexual education to students’ level of maturity and the prevention of gender violence. It also includes affective-sexual education in the compulsory subject of Health Education and as a cross-cutting subject, both in primary and secondary education.