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Contents:

• ¿QUé EL PROYECTO LEY NOCIDO O "DON'T SAY GAY"?
• 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
• WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?
• NOT JT FLORIDA. MORE THAN A DOZEN STAT PROPOSE SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILLS
• WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS
• FACT-CHECKG 3 PROMENT CLAIMS ABOUT FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• GOP LAWMAKERS TRODUCE VERSN OF 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL OH
• FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'
• THE PROBLEM WH ‘DON’T SAY GAY’: CHILDREN AREN’T ASKG ABOUT SEX. THEY’RE ASKG ABOUT LOVE.

¿QUé EL PROYECTO LEY NOCIDO O "DON'T SAY GAY"?

(CNN Español) -- El Senado Florida, ntrolado por el Partido Republino, aprobó el proyecto ley HB 1557, tulado Derechos los Padr en la Edución y nocido o "Don't Say Gay" ("No digas gay", en pañol).

El mart 8 marzo, el proyecto ley "Don't Say Gay" se aprobó n 22 votos a favor y 17 en ntra, lo que prohibiría enseñar sobre orientación sexual e intidad género en las las. Las cuelas ya suelen ser entornos hostil para los niños LGBTQ en Estados Unidos: si el 33% los tudiant LGBTQ 13 a 21 años dijeron que faltaron un día a la cuela en el transcurso un m porque se sentían seguros o cómodos, y más l 77% dijo que evaba ir a los eventos extracurricular la cuela porque se sentían seguros o cómodos, según la Encuta Nacnal Clima Eslar más reciente publida por la Red Edución para Gays, Lbianas y Heterosexual (GLSEN, por s siglas en glés) en 2019.

Según el reporte GLSEN, el 98, 8% los tudiant LGBTQ dijeron que cucharon "gay" ado manera negativa, y más l 95% ellos cucharon sultos homofóbis en la cuela.

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

Los miembros la Generación Z (fida o personas nacidas entre 1997 y 2012) han lirado durante semanas important maniftacn y huelgas lar en protta por el proyecto ley nocido o "Don't Say Gay". Los tudiant todo el tado han salido s las en protta por el proyecto ley "Don't Say Gay" te m.

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.

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

For starters, cricism that the “Don’t Say Gay” bill do not fact say “gay” anywhere s text is te. 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. The proposed law, often referred to by crics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, bans public school districts om teachg about sexual orientatn or genr inty krgarten through the third gra, or “ a manner that is not age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts”—language that crics say uld extend the ban to higher gra levels. ” Read more: Kid of the Year Falist Kai Shappley, 11, Tak on Lawmakers Her Fight for Trans Rights What impact uld the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill have?

WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?

Shevr Jon, Florida’s first openly gay Florida state senator, who told the legislative body: “To those who thk you n legislate gay people away, I’m sorry. Today, we have an analysis of a piece of tn legislatn Florida that crics have referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay” we have news of our own: We’re makg some chang to the Edutn Briefg. See below for Asenc-Rhe/Tampa Bay Tim, via Associated PrsA close read of ‘Don’t Say Gay’Gov.

Ron DeSantis of Florida is expected to sign Hoe Bill 1557, a proposed law that supporters ll the “Parental Rights Edutn” bill and opponents refer to as the “Don’t Say Gay” lleague Dana Goldste has done a close readg of the bill self, which is about much more than gay rights. Sentence has earned the bill the “Don’t Say Gay” nickname:L 97-101: Classroom stctn by school personnel or third parti on sexual orientatn or genr inty may not occur krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state impact is clear enough: Instctn on genr and sexualy would be nstraed all gras.

That uld disurage a teacher om speakg about gay fai wh the whole class, even if some stunts have gay bill also targets mental health and unselg servic — a place where stunts often have difficult nversatns about genr inty and sexualy, pecially if they stggle to talk about those nversatns at as Florida revis s school unselg standards, adopted 2010, which affirm genr and sexual diversy unselg.

NOT JT FLORIDA. MORE THAN A DOZEN STAT PROPOSE SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILLS

Across the Uned Stat, at least a dozen stat are nsirg new legislatn that several ways will mirror Florida's new ntroversial law, referred to by some opponents as "Don't Say Gay. "The stutnalizatn of the bills is an overt form of stctural transphobia and homophobia, and go agast all public health evince creatg a safe and supportive environment for transgenr, nonbary, queer, gay and lbian youths and teachers to thrive, " Arjee Rtar, assistant profsor of epimlogy at the Universy of Washgton, told NPR. Rtar, a social epimlogist and health equy advote, said the ntroversial bills will lim all youths to live to their fullt potential, addg "there should be no room for transphobia and homophobia — pecially the classroom.

" Tennsee's HB 800 bans books and stctnal materials "that promote, normalize, support, or addrs lbian, gay, bi-sexual, or transgenr issu or liftyle. Two years after Arizona lawmakers repealed a law barrg any stctn on HIV or AIDS that that "promot a homosexual liftyle, " they are close to enactg a broad remake of the state's sex tn laws wh a particular foc on LGBTQ issu. "Florida may be the first this wave, but there have been other laws the past that were lled 'no promo homo' laws, which forbid sayg posive thgs about lbian, gay, bisexual, and queer people classrooms, " Simmons told NPR.

New York Cy is lnchg a digal billboard mpaign, supportg LGBTQ visibily that will be displayed five major markets Florida for eight weeks, to lure Floridians unhappy wh their state's "Don't Say Gay" law to the Big Apple, Adams announced. 'I am eply gay': Kate McKnon mocks Florida's ntroversial bill. In their qut to bee the party of “parental rights, ” Republins Florida and other stat are attemptg to muzzle discsn of gay and civil rights school.

WHAT THE BILL DUBBED ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BY CRICS ACTUALLY SAYS

Ron DeSantis signed – tled “Parental Rights Edutn” – has been dubbed by crics the “Don’t Say Gay” bill bee seeks to ban discsn of genr and sexualy issu wh younger stunts. What has been dubbed by crics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill was the subject of an tense opposn mpaign. Earlier this month, DeSantis grew agated at the Florida Strawberry Ftival when a reporter asked him about the phrase – “Don’t Say Gay” – that crics have applied to the bill.

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

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.

“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.

GOP LAWMAKERS TRODUCE VERSN OF 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL OH

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.

FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'

The proposal is now facg backlash om lol LGBTQ bill b language om Florida's ntroversial Parental Rights Edutn law, dubbed by crics as the "Don't Say Gay" law, and legislatn that seeks to lim tn on race proposed by Republins some bill stat that "curriculum or stctnal materials on sexual orientatn or genr inty" would be banned classrooms startg om krgarten through third gra.

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The bill, which some opponents have lled "Don't Say Gay, " was signed by DeSantis on Monday. The "Don't Say Gay" moniker om crics of the measure who blast this ia and sist this policy will hurt LGBTQ children. "Florida's HB 1557, also known as the 'Don't Say Gay' bill, should never have passed and should never have been signed to law, " the statement read.

THE PROBLEM WH ‘DON’T SAY GAY’: CHILDREN AREN’T ASKG ABOUT SEX. THEY’RE ASKG ABOUT LOVE.

The famo “Don’t Say Gay” bill has officially passed Florida, set to go to effect on July 1. Debbie Owu-Akyeeah is the executive director of the Canadian Centre for Genr and Sexual Diversy (CCGSD), a natnal LGBTQ anizatn dited to elimatg all forms of bullyg, discrimatn, and homophobia schools. In an terview wh, Owu-Akyeeah lled the Don’t Say Gay bill “as Amerin as a Big Mac, ” notg that seems like every day there is a different threat to the livelihoods of LGBTQ dividuals, pecially trans people.

By dividuals who don’t want children to learn about societal issu like racism and homophobia. “Y (Don’t Say Gay legislatn) n absolutely happen here, ” she said. In an op-ed for NBC News Thk, Daniel Putnam, Furman Scholar at the New York Universy School of Law said he believ the Don’t Say Gay bill is unnstutnal.

Nik Basset is an tn and Gay Straight Alliance ordator at The Youth Project, a non-prof anizatn Nova Stia that provis support and servic to youth aged 25 and unr “around issu of sexual orientatn and genr inty. In an terview wh, Basset noted that while Canadian provc aren’t necsarily bound to legislatn like the Don’t Say Gay bill, public schools Nova Stia don’t offer any tn around genr and sexual orientatn for stunts up to gra 3. “You n’t groom someone to be gay.