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• ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL: FLORIDA SENATE PASS NTROVERSIAL LGBTQ SCHOOL MEASURE
• FLORIDA JT PASSED THE "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL. HERE’S WHAT IT MEANS FOR KIDS
• FLORIDA HOE PASS ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• FLORIDA ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL PASS FAL SENATE MTEE
• FLORIDA HOE PASS NTROVERSIAL MEASURE DUBBED THE 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL BY CRICS
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• VAST MAJORY OF FLORIDA VOTERS OPPOSE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL – GOP IS GOG TO PASS ANYWAY
• FLORIDA SENATE PASS 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL SENDG TO ERNOR
• “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL BAT NTUE AHEAD OF CISN
• CRICS SLAM FLORIDA 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL AHEAD OF KEY VOTE

‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL: FLORIDA SENATE PASS NTROVERSIAL LGBTQ SCHOOL MEASURE

The measure, dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by s opponents, was passed by the state Hoe last month and now heads to Republin Gov.

Parents n sue school districts for alleged a tearful addrs to the Senate on Monday, Democrat Shevr Jon, the first openly gay Florida state senator, urged his lleagu to narrow the bill’s language to say stctn should not be “tend to change a stunt’s sexual orientatn or genr inty. ”“I ask that you open up your hearts jt a tad b, ” he said, notg the name-llg and shunng he had faced as a gay man. 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.

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

” 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? 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. Florida’s Hoe passed the Parental Rights Edutn bill — known to s crics as “Don’t Say Gay” — on Thursday a 69-47 vote.

“I’m gog to vote down on this bill, and I am gog to say ‘gay’ until I am rabow the face, ” state Rep.

“Dpe overwhelmg public outrage, pollg data unrsrg immense unpopulary wh voters, and hours of ttimony om LGBTQ fai, Republin legislators voted to pass the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill and ‘Stop WOKE’ Act the Florida Hoe. 15 OTHER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’-STYLE BILLS ARE CROPPING UP NATIONWIDE.

FLORIDA HOE PASS ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

A Florida Senate mtee on Monday passed the Parental Rights Edutn bill — known to s crics as “Don’t Say Gay” — by a vote of 12-8. Florida’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill on Monday passed s fal state Senate mtee. FLORIDA HOUSE PASSES ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL.

FLORIDA ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL PASS FAL SENATE MTEE

Carlos Smh speaks agast HB 1577, dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by crics, earlier this month Tallahassee, Fla.

Opponents — many of whom have taken to llg the measure the "Don't Say Gay" bill — say will make life harr for LGBTQ youth, who already face a higher rate of bullyg and a higher risk of suici than their straight, cisgenr peers. "As expected, the #DontSayGayBill jt passed the Florida Hoe, but SEVEN Republins crossed party l to vote agast , " Rep.

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.

FLORIDA HOE PASS NTROVERSIAL MEASURE DUBBED THE 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL BY CRICS

” 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.

”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.

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

Florida’s Hoe of Reprentativ passed the so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill and set the much-maligned law up for a fal vote spe wispread disapproval among lawmakers passed a fal versn of the bill on Tuday, a poll showed around a third of voters (34 per cent) supportg the legislatn “somewhat or strongly” fdgs published by the Public Opn Rearch Lab (PORL) at the Universy of North Florida (UNF) meanwhile found a “majory of rponnts”, or 57 per cent, opposn to the bill “eher strongly or somewhat” “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn, as ’s referred to by crics, has been nmned by Democrats, parents and the Whe Hoe, which has scribed the legislatn as “hateful”. If be law, will censor nversatns about homosexualy and genr inty Florida’s classrooms. “If this ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill be law, s isolatg impacts will ensure that even more vulnerable LGBTQ+ children will suffer, and some will die, ” argued Ms Wasserman Schultz, reference to figur om LGBT+ suici preventn and crisis terventn group The Trevor group found that LGBT+ youth are four tim more likely to serly nsir, plan or attempt suici than their peers, while those who learned about LGBT+ issu schools were meanwhile ls likely to do so.

VAST MAJORY OF FLORIDA VOTERS OPPOSE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL – GOP IS GOG TO PASS ANYWAY

Classroom nversatns about homosexualy and genr inty for children “krgarten through gra 3” would however be forbidn Florida, as well as circumstanc “that is not age appropriate”, followg the fal passg of the bill. Republin lawmaker Joe Hardg, the sponsor of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, has meanwhile fend his proposals om cricism and has said spontaneo discsns about LGBT+ topics would be Hardg said on Tuday that the legislatn was signed to stop the subjects beg serted to the curriculum.

That is spe wily regnised anniversari such as LGBT+ history month beg marked the US for Michael Br, a UNF polil science profsor and director of PORL, add on Tuday: “Support for the so-lled ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill is only about 40 per cent, spe beg passed the State Senate last week”.

The Parental Rights Edutn Bill that crics ll the "Don't Say Gay" bill was approved by the Florida Senate Tuday and sent to Governor Ron DeSantis for his signature. – The Florida Senate is poised to pass what’s beg lled the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

FLORIDA SENATE PASS 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL SENDG TO ERNOR

That’s bee the bill would allow parents to sue school districts if teachers discs homosexualy or genr inty. However, ever republin legislator Lee and Collier unty voted support of the “Don’t Say Gay Bill”. The bill uld also prevent kids wh gay parents om talkg about the classroom.

“DON’T SAY GAY” BILL BAT NTUE AHEAD OF CISN

Crics have slammed a ntroversial Florida tn bill that is schled for a key vote the Judiciary Commtee of the state's Republin-ntrolled Hoe of Reprentativ on Parental Rights Edutn bill, which opponents have dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill, will be nsired by the mtee durg their meetg at 3:00 p. "The Florida Hoe ntu to advance the dangero 'Don't Say Gay' bill and has placed on the agenda for a vote this Thursday's Judiciary Commtee at 3.

She told Newsweek on Wednday that the Parental Rights Edutn bill was "rooted homophobia and transphobia.

"The bill sends a dangero msage to kids that beg gay or trans is wrong, that the are 'dirty' words, " Eskamani said.

CRICS SLAM FLORIDA 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL AHEAD OF KEY VOTE

"Nade Smh, executive director of Equaly Florida, told Newsweek a statement on Thursday: "The Don't Say Gay bill would erase LGBTQ people om classrooms across Florida, further stigmatizg our muny and isolatg young LGBTQ people who are already four tim as likely as their peers to attempt suici before graduatn. Hardg said opponents of the bill are "makg a ridiculo se that this bill is about attackg gays.

"Every adult, LGBT or straight, who has a child's bt terts md, should support this legislatn, " Hardg Senator Dennis Baxley, a Republin and sponsor of the bill the state Senate, said the legislatn is not "anti-gay.