Florida Governer to expand don’t say gay to ALL grades???

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Good news

DeSantis is hoping to cancel queer kids.

This will definitely see legal challenges if it passes. And pushback from....just about anyone who isn't a republican. What do they expect queer teachers to do? Pretend to be straight? Never talk about their spouses if they are married?
For some reason, I'm guessing this bill doesn't forbid discussions of heterosexuality or sexual identities that correlate with assigned gender at birth...

What's next. Will we go back to the 60's and 70's when social conservatives opposed any and all sex education? They already barely tolerate abstinence-only sex ed.

Poe's Law prevents me from telling if you are serious.

The Florida Board of Education has voted to expand restrictions on classroom instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity.

"This amendment prohibits classroom instruction to students in pre-kindergarten through Grade 3 on sexual orientation or gender identity. For Grades 4 through 12, instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity is prohibited unless such instruction is either expressly required by state academic standards ... or is part of a reproductive health course or health lesson for which a student’s parent has the option to have his or her student not attend," according to the amendment.

This rule would build on the Parental Rights in Education law Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed in March 2022. The law bans classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity for students in kindergarten through third grade.

It also states that any instruction on those topics cannot occur "in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards," according to the legislation.

Critics of these restrictions argue that "everyone has a sexual orientation and a gender identity. It looks like this rule would make it impossible to do much instruction at all," Laura McGinnis, of the LGBTQ advocacy group PFLAG, previously told ABC News.

At the Wednesday hearing, the public debated the bill before the board.

Critics argued that the bill will censor speech and stop people from talking about their identities due to its vague descriptions on "instruction" and "gender identity and sexual orientation."

One teacher who spoke at the meeting argued that she fields questions about gender identity and sexual orientation regularly, because students "felt safe to ask me because they trusted me as a teacher and their parents, who opt into sex education for their child, trusted me to answer them. Please understand, if students do not get their questions answered either by their trusted teachers or by those parents that are willing to talk with our children, they will likely find the answers from their peers or the internet with dubious safety inaccuracy."

Florida Governer to expand don’t say gay to ALL grades???

Isn't Miami in Florida?

A city full of gay men spending their gay dollars helping fund the state and this dipshit thinks it's ok to try to cancel LGBT people by pretending we don't exist. What a piece of s**t.

Horrific. A good governor would have, and this is a low bar, looked at the impact that similar laws have had in other places, like the UK, and then not done this.

DeSantis is hoping to cancel queer kids.