Wyomg’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill di the Hoe | Wyomg Public Media

Contents:

• WYOMG’S VERSN OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ADVANC TO SENATE FLOOR
• WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?
• WYOMG’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL DI THE HOE
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• WYOMG LEGISLATORS INTRODUCE EDUTN BILL THAT MIRRORS FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW

WYOMG’S VERSN OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ADVANC TO SENATE FLOOR

But several tn officials and LGBTQ rights activists say might prohib teachers om supportg queer youth or even prohib stunts om talkg about themselv or their own bill closely rembl the famed "Don't Say Gay" bill passed Florida last year. Laramie County teenager Ash Siltt spoke about their own childhood and the early realizatn that they were gay. 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.

WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?

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. Wyomg's "Don't Say Gay" bill has failed this ssn, havg missed a key adle Friday bill was a close py of a law passed Florida last year.

WYOMG’S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL DI THE HOE

It also would have required school districts to tell parents about any change their child's emotnal or mental health — a provisn that uld force schools to out gay and trans stunts who have e out at school but not at bill ma all the way through the Senate and was sent to the Hoe of Reprentativ.

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.

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

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.

WYOMG LEGISLATORS INTRODUCE EDUTN BILL THAT MIRRORS FLORIDA’S “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW

”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 language mirrors Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn Act passed last year, which many tractors labelled the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. She said teachers have plaed that when children wh gay or lbian parents want to brg their parents to school parents’ days and other events, the teachers n’t addrs other stunts’ qutns about those fay nfiguratns.