Pa. Senate pass so-lled ‘don’t say gay’ bill and vot to have schools notify parents about sexually explic library books – The Morng Call

Contents:

• SB 1278 | DON'T SAY 'GAY' PA
• TWO “DON’T SAY GAY” BILLS PASS PA. SENATE TN MTEE
• PA. SENATORS TO TRODUCE LEGISLATN SIAR TO FLA.'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• BOROWICZ SPEARHEADS ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL PA.
• WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• IN SOME STAT, VERSNS OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILLS HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR AWHILE

SB 1278 | DON'T SAY 'GAY' PA

SB 1278 then appli that standard of “ntraly” to unfed “classroom stctn, ” prohibg any acknowledgement of gay or trans people gras K-5 and wh vague veats gras 6-12, which actually mak the bill more rtrictive than Florida’s Don’t Say Gay bill, which was limed to K-3 stctn. Republin State Senators Stt Mart and Ryan Aument are the lead sponsors of the two "Don't Say Gay" bills.

TWO “DON’T SAY GAY” BILLS PASS PA. SENATE TN MTEE

On June 21, the Pennsylvania Senate Edutn Commtee passed two wi-rangg anti-LGBTQ+ bills that LGBTQ advot are llg worse than Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn. Ryan Aument (R-Lanster), would require parents to be notified and have the optn of optg out of their child havg accs to books librari and classroom materials that nta same-genr relatnships and referenc to homosexualy. Er Ellis, a member of the Philalphia chapter of Parents, Fai and and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG), has two elementary-age children, one of whom intifi as trans and the other as nonbary.

A legislative proposal that rembl the so-lled "Don't Say Gay" bill enacted earlier this year Florida is expected to soon be submted to the Pennsylvania state Senate. Pennsylvania state reprentativ have troduced a bill regulatg classroom stctn that is more rtrictive than Florida's famo "don't say gay" law. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, has promised to veto or any bill like , cludg HB 2813, which he said "ni humany by rercg homophobic iologi, " acrdg to news se Lol Today.

The Pennsylvania Senate on Wednday approved a prohibn on school stctn before sixth gra on sexual orientatn or genr inty — a bill dubbed “don’t say gay” by s opponents — and also acted to have school districts tell parents about school library books wh sexually explic ntent.

PA. SENATORS TO TRODUCE LEGISLATN SIAR TO FLA.'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

The bill there was tled “Parental Rights Edutn” but opponents lled “Don’t Say Gay. GOP state lawmakers are phg a bill to lim school stctn that is more expansive than the Florida legislatn that has been scribed by s opponents as the “don’t say gay” law.

The effect has led opponents of the measure to dub the “don’t say gay” law. The most ncrete allegatns of this were prented Tuday by Fenicia Redman, who sued the state after she said she found that her son’s school library had books such as “The Complete Idt’s Gui to Tantric Sex, ” as well as graphic novels pictg timate homosexual relatnships. 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.

BOROWICZ SPEARHEADS ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL PA.

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. 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.

WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?

” 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. 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.

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

”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. Kay Ivey signed to law Hoe Bill 322, lloquially dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, rtrictg public school teachers om discsg LGBTQ+ history or people public elementary schools. At least 20 stat have troduced “Don’t Say Gay” laws this year, which have ma wav around the untry.

READ MORE: Florida Legislature vot to strip Disney of self-ernment after opposn to ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill. Sce 1992, Alabama’s tn stipulated that teachers emphasize “ a factual manner and om a public health perspective, that homosexualy is not a liftyle acceptable to the general public and that homosexual nduct is a crimal offense unr the laws of the state. A year ago, “Don’t Say Gay” laws that had passed the 1980s were nsired archaic, LGBTQ+ advot said, wh many of them repealed over the years.

Texas lawmakers have exprsed tert pursug a “Don’t Say Gay” bill like Florida’s and Alabama’s, even though the state has had a siar regulatn on the books sce 1991. In Texas, the state still stipulat that tnal materials for people unr the age of 18 “state that homosexual nduct is not an acceptable liftyle and is a crimal offense.

IN SOME STAT, VERSNS OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILLS HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR AWHILE

Oklahoma passed the natn’s first bill banng teachers om talkg about homosexualy an AIDS sex ed measure April 1987, and Louisana followed su that July.

South Carola passed a “Don’t Say Gay” bill 1988. In total, ne stat passed laws banng schools om teachg about “homosexualy” om 1987 to 2001, when Utah adopted s versn.

For example, Louisiana still has a law on the books that stat, “No sex tn urse offered the public schools of the state shall utilize any sexually explic materials pictg male or female homosexual activy. Mississippi sex ed law requir that teachers simply teach current state law related to sexual nduct and lists “homosexualy” alongsi sensive topics such as “forcible rape, statutory rape, paterny tablishment” and “child support. Casey said the bills are relics of the AIDS crisis, when panic about homosexualy dictated school curriculum.