Are you a doctor who hat treatg gay people? Come to Florida, where Ron DeSantis has legalised bigotry | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian

Contents:

• ISLAND HOE STAFF SAYS “KEEP KEY WT GAY”
• ARE YOU A DOCTOR WHO HAT TREATG GAY PEOPLE? COME TO FLORIDA, WHERE RON DESANTIS HAS LEGALISED BIGOTRY
• FACT-CHECKG 3 PROMENT CLAIMS ABOUT FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• FLORIDA JT PASSED THE "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL. HERE’S WHAT IT MEANS FOR KIDS

ISLAND HOE STAFF SAYS “KEEP KEY WT GAY”

On 1 July, a new law go to effect that means a doctor n look a potential patient up and down, ci they are givg off homosexual vib and refe to treat them bee teractg wh gay people go agast their personal beliefs.

” I’m not sure what “the basics” are but they clearly don’t clu studyg Michelangelo or watchg animated films sce, earlier this year, a Florida prcipal had to rign after parents were outraged that their kids were shown a picture of Michelangelo’s David and now a Florida teacher is beg vtigated for showg her class a Disney movie featurg a gay banned everythg sight, DeSantis’s next big project appears to be modifyg Florida’s “rign-to-n” law so that he n n for print while still servg as ernor.

ARE YOU A DOCTOR WHO HAT TREATG GAY PEOPLE? COME TO FLORIDA, WHERE RON DESANTIS HAS LEGALISED BIGOTRY

But crics nicknamed HB 1557 the “don’t say gay” bill, warng isn’t necsary and mak some stunts feel unsafe by sglg out LGBTQ material as dangero and appropriate.

Dennis Baxley (R-Ola) the bill’s Senate sponsor who said he was addrsg “social engeerg” that uld rult more children intifyg as gay or transgenr. ” The guidance clus fns of terms related to sexual orientatn and genr inty — cludg gay, lbian and transgenr — that teachers are enuraged to e when applible. ” The word ‘gay’ People on Facebook and Twter have said that Florida Republins want to ban the word “gay” school.

FACT-CHECKG 3 PROMENT CLAIMS ABOUT FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

“GOP’s 2022 platform: Ban books, Ban abortn, Ban Black history, Ban transgenr teens, Ban sayg ‘gay’ and Ban votg, ” said Dean Obeidallah, a left-leang rad host and edian, on March 11.

’” On SNL’s “Weekend Update” segment, anchor Col Jost told st member Kate McKnon, who is gay, that the bill “means that you n’t acknowledge that ‘gay’ exists at all. ” McKnon then slammed the legislatn, sayg, “I am eply gay — sorry, eply ncerned. It jt seems like this is gog to make kids gay and trans — sorry, prsed and suicidal.

” The claims n largely be attributed to the legislatn’s “don’t say gay” nickname, ed by Equaly Florida. The legislatn do not lerally prohib Floridians om sayg the word “gay, ” but do prohib “classroom discsn about sexual orientatn or genr inty.

HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO

And most notably, Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law was passed a year ago, which banned discsn of LGBTQ+ inti most classrooms. LGBTQ+ activists prott agast Florida ernor Ron Dantis, who passed the “Don’t Say Gay” law. HB1403 one year on om Florida’s famo “Don’t Say Gay” law beg passed, banng discsn of LGBTQ+ inti most classrooms – legislatn that activists fear uld be place for s.

But Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn act — which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — has sudnly sparked a natnal war of recent weeks, lears of global rporatns, edorial boards of major newspapers and Hollywood actors have all weighed on the proposed legislatn, wh some llg “eply disturbg” and others “nonntroversial. ” Conversely, opponents say would unfairly target the LGBTQ muny — particularly gay and trans stunts — and is “pretendg to solve a problem that don’t exist.

For starters, cricism that the “Don’t Say Gay” bill do not fact say “gay” anywhere s text is te.

FLORIDA JT PASSED THE "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL. HERE’S WHAT IT MEANS FOR KIDS

The bill, which passed Florida’s Senate last week and the state’s Hoe of Reprentativ Febary, do, however, nta the terms “sexual orientatn” and “genr inty, ” each legal experts say that whether the bill prohibs the word “gay” self is a “distractn. “The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ moniker is a moniker about a certa polil amg of this suatn. ”Beyond brandg, a re argument over the bill centers around whether would prohib the “stctn” or “discsn” of sexual bill’s sponsors have emphatilly stated that the bill would not prohib stunts om talkg about their LGBTQ fai or bar classroom discsns about LGBTQ history, cludg events like the 2016 adly attack on the Pulse nightclub, a gay club Orlando.

The Florida Senate passed the ntroversial so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill on Tuday, sendg the Republin-backed legislatn banng LGBTQ stctn primary schools to Gov.