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Opting-out should just be done away with. I had to deal with that, during school, and 8th grade was my first real exposure to non church kids.
I naturally avoided everything that was obviously gay-ish, just because of how I was brought up. I'm still learning things that I have to unlearn, 25 years later.
It really fucks you up in life, if you're like me and are an actually decent person that was just raised in the fucked-up cult of Christianity.
The entire process of getting woke was just a constant realization of the huge amount of different kinds of people and ideas I had spent my life shitting on.
I haven't done anything besides just blind hatred, but given how fucked the process is (of coming out of it), I've blacked a lot of it out. Kinda like I blacked out most of the week one of my brothers died. I've just kinda put up crime scene tape around memories that hurt too much.
The opt-out thing is only a tiny piece of my trauma, but it did hold me back yet further. And kids will humiliate kids that don't get to go to the sex ed classes. So beyond getting held back which I only realize the damage of now, at the time, being late to learning about sex was embarrassing, which I did feel immediately.
I get why the option is attractive to super religious and controlling parents, but given that they're all just blatantly wrong, this option should just be removed from their arsenal. If you want to legally harm your children, that's what private school (read: religious school) is for.
But public school should not support that choice. If you're gonna hurt your kids, you better have to pay out the big bucks to do it.