Do Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill vlate the First Amendment? – The Hill

Contents:

• 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?
• FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'
• WHAT THE FERAL ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL ACTUALLY SAYS
• NEW POLL: 64% OF AMERINS SUPPORT 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• DO FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL VLATE THE FIRST AMENDMENT?
• THE WHE HOE IS SPREADG VILE LI ABOUT THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• AMENDMENT TO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL FLORIDA REQUIR SCHOOLS TO OUT STUNTS TO THEIR PARENTS WH SIX WEEKS

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

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. 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.

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

“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.

WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?

” 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. 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.

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

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. A feral versn of Florida’s ntroversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill troduced last month would ban the e of feral rourc to teach stunts about sexual activy and sexual orientatn, genr inty, and dysphoria or ’s highly unlikely that the bill, formally tled the “Stop the Sexualizatn of Children Act, ” will be passed to law while Democrats ntrol the Hoe and Senate.

Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, officially known as the Parental Rights Edutn law, is the most wily known example of that legislative genre and has spired pyt bills across the untry.

WHAT THE FERAL ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL ACTUALLY SAYS

Its crics dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” bee of s anti-LGBTQ tent, which was ma evint by statements state lawmakers ma when they were troducg the bill. The State(s) of 'Don't Say Gay' and Other School Censorship Efforts.

NEW POLL: 64% OF AMERINS SUPPORT 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

Ron DeSantis signed the state's "don't say gay" bill to law Monday, but the Sunshe State isn't alone the efforts -- 's actually part of a natnal other stat are nsirg legislatn that would ban or rtrict classroom (or unselg office) discsn of LGBTQ+ issu and inty or books and other tnal materials that have LGBTQ+ ntent. The bills aren't surfacg only ral stat or the Deep South -- they've also e up such reliably blue stat as Illois, New Jersey, and Rho Island, although they have ltle chance of passg, The Advote looks at the history of "don't say gay" bills analyz the current state of the and other censorship attempts -- and the legislators behd them.

DO FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL VLATE THE FIRST AMENDMENT?

What Is a 'Don't Say Gay' Bill and What's the History?

"Don't say gay" bills have gotten much publicy this year, but they're really nothg new. Stacey Campfield troduced a bill that would ban any lsons related to homosexualy through eighth gra.

Campfield is no longer office, but other Tennsee lawmakers are tryg there was "don't say gay, " there was "no promo homo" -- bills that proliferated the 1980s and '90s as nservative legislators rpond to the AIDS crisis by seekg to ban what they nsired "promotn of homosexualy" schools, pecially sex tn urs. What's the Difference Between "Don't Say Gay" and "No Promo Homo" Bills? A major difference between "no promo homo" bills and "don't say gay" bills is that the latter often have a "heavy-hand mandate on parent and fay volvement, " says Melanie Willgham-Jaggers, GLSEN's executive director.

THE WHE HOE IS SPREADG VILE LI ABOUT THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

"The mandat are harmful and risk relsly outg LGBTQ+ young people to fai who do not affirm their children's inti, " Willgham-Jaggers when "don't say gay" bills don't pass, the anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric that up the bat over them do harm, pots out Cathryn Oakley, state legislative director and senr unsel at the Human Rights Campaign. She also not that the bills are more accurately scribed as "don't say gay or trans" bills, as they target transgenr people along wh everyone else unr the LGBTQ+ umbrella. Those who support "don't say gay or trans" bills across all stat are virtually all chief sponsor of Florida's bill is Sen.

Louisiana's versn of a "don't say gay or trans" bill, Hoe Bill 837, is pretty drastic. "Chris Kaiser, advocy director for the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn's Louisiana affiliate, noted to the paper that the bill "seems to be part of a trend to file a lot of different typ of legislatn that is jt aimed at villaizg gay and transgenr people and basilly removg them om public life. It's not hard to image homophobic or transphobic parents not wantg their kids exposed to the "liftyl.

"No public school district, public charter school, or public school library shall mata s ventory or e s curriculum books that make as their primary subject the study of lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr issu or recreatnal sexualizatn, " reads. Tennsee was one of the earlit stat to nsir "don't say gay" legislatn, but backers of such measur haven't managed to get them passed. Hoe Bill 800 would ban the e of "textbooks and stctnal materials or supplemental stctnal materials that promote, normalize, support, or addrs lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr (LGBT) issu or liftyl.

AMENDMENT TO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL FLORIDA REQUIR SCHOOLS TO OUT STUNTS TO THEIR PARENTS WH SIX WEEKS

An early versn of the bill sgled out pictns of homosexualy, but Rep. " Notably, was jt three years ago that Arizona repealed s "no promo homo" law regardg sex tn. Conservative legislators some stat aren't proposg explicly "don't say gay" bills but stead want to give parents broad powers to object to books and other tnal materials they don't want their children seeg, potentially rultg censorship of LGBTQ+ ntent or anythg that als wh the history and effects of racism and sexism the U.

An earlier versn listed pictns of homosexualy as "harmful to mors, " but the latt one has more general language.

A new poll shows that 60% of Amerins back the "Don't Say Gay, " bill, pecially the language regardg sexual orientatn and genr inty beg limed K-3 classrooms. The dividuals were prented wh the highly cricized portn of the legislatn that earned HB 1557 the famo tle, "The Don't Say Gay Bill. Confn epted after Democrats famoly brand the bill as the, "Don't Say Gay, " bill which created an abundance of misrmatn.