Florida stunts stage school walkouts over 'Don't Say Gay' bill

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• RON DESANTIS'S FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN: HEY, WHAT ABOUT THE “PERSONAL BENEF” OF BEG A SLAVE?FLORIDA’S NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS WILL FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY.BY ERIC LUTZJULY 20, 2023RON DESANTIS SPEAKS DURG A MPAIGN EVENT IOWA JULY 14.RACHEL MUMMEY/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVERON DESANTIS’S WAR ON “WOKENS” SCHOOLS ASCEND TO DANGERO NEW HEIGHTS WEDNDAY, AS FLORIDA’S STATE BOARD OF EDUTN APPROVED NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS THAT, AMONG OTHER THGS, WOULD FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY — A WHEWASHG OF HISTORY THAT THE STATE’S LARGT TEACHERS UNN CRIED AS A “BIG STEP BACKWARD” FOR TN.“GOV. DESANTIS IS PURSUG A POLIL AGENDA GUARANTEED TO SET GOOD PEOPLE AGAST ONE ANOTHER, AND THE PROCS HE’S CHEATG OUR KIDS,” ANDREW SPAR, PRINT OF THE FLORIDA EDUTN ASSOCIATN, SAID A STATEMENT BLASTG THE NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI STANDARDS. “THEY SERVE THE FULL TTH OF AMERIN HISTORY, THE GOOD AND THE BAD.”FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS MAY NOT GET THAT UNR THE NEW L APPROVED WEDNDAY, WHICH REQUIRE TEACHERS— A SECTN ON SLAVERY— TO NOTE THAT “SLAV VELOPED SKILLS, WHICH, SOME STANC, ULD BE APPLIED FOR THEIR PERSONAL BENEF.” IN A SECTN ON “RENSTCTN AND BEYOND,” A PERD MARKED BY JIM CROW AND ROUTE WHE TERRORISM ON BLACK MUNI, THE NEW L DICTATE THAT STUNTS MT BE TGHT ABOUT “ACTS OF VLENCE PERPETRATED AGAST AND BY AIN AMERINS,” WHICH, AS DEMOCRATIC STATE SENATOR GERALDE THOMPSON POTED OUT, SUGGTS CINTS LIKE THE OEE MASSACRE WERE “SPARKED BY VLENCE OM AIN AMERINS.”“THAT’S BLAMG THE VICTIMS,” SAID THOMPSON, WHO, AS THE WASHGTON POST NOT, HELPED PASS A 2020 LAW REQUIRG FLORIDA SCHOOLS TO TEACH ABOUT THE 1920 MASSACRE, WHICH A WHE MOB KILLED DOZENS OF BLACK RINTS OF OEE, FLORIDA, ELECTN DAY VLENCE. (MANNY DIAZ, FLORIDA'S TN MISSNER, PRAISED THE CHANG, SAYG THAT “THIS IS SOMETHG THAT IS GOG TO SET THE NORM FOR STANDARDS OTHER STAT.”)TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE NEW STANDARDS E AS DESANTIS, A NTENR FOR THE 2024 REPUBLIN NOMATN, LAT HIS WAR ON SO-LLED “WOKE” TN, WHICH HAS CLUD BOOK BANS, THE REJECTN OF AN ADVANCED PLACEMENT URSE ON AIN AMERIN STUDI, AND THE PASSAGE OF THE STOP WOKE ACT, WHICH PROHIBS THE STCTN OF MATERIAL THAT ULD MAKE SOMEONE FEEL “GUILT, ANGUISH OR ANY FORM OF PSYCHOLOGIL STRS.” HIS NCERN FOR THE POSSIBLE “ANGUISH” OF FLORIDA STUNTS DO NOT SEEM TO EXTEND TO BLACK STUNTS, WHO ULD BE FORCED TO LEARN ABOUT THE SUPPOSED “BENEF” OF SLAVERY, NOR DO SEEM TO EXTEND TO LGBTQ KIDS AND THEIR FAI, WHO HAVE ALSO BEEN TARGETED HIS BATTLE. DESANTIS EXPAND HIS “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW THIS YEAR, AND THE FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN VOTED WEDNDAY FOR L THAT TOOK EVEN FURTHER — CLUDG BY BARRG TEACHERS OM ASKG STUNTS THEIR PREFERRED PRONOUNS. DIAZ SAID THE MOVE WOULD PROTECT KIDS OM “UNWELE FLUENC AND DOCTRATN," PRAISG DESANTIS, THE LEGISLATN, AND THE BOARD FOR WHAT HE SCRIBED A STATEMENT AS THEIR “UNWAVERG MMENT TO THE HEALTH, WELLBEG AND SAFETY OF OUR STUNTS.” BUT, AS CRICS CHARGED, THE L NSTUTED AN LATN THE “POLILLY-MOTIVATED WAR ON PARENTS, STUNTS, AND TORS” FLORIDA. “OUR STUNTS SERVE CLASSROOMS WHERE ALL FAI ARE TREATED WH THE RPECT THEY SERVE AND ALL YOUNG PEOPLE ARE WELED,” JENNIFER SOLOMON, EQUALY FLORIDA PARENTS & FAI SUPPORT MANAGER, SAID A STATEMENT WEDNDAY. “INSTEAD, THE DESANTIS ADMISTRATN NTU TO WIELD THE STATE AGAST .”“STOP TURNG OUR KIDS’ CLASSROOMS TO POLIL BATTLEFIELDS TO SRE CHEAP POTS,” SOLOMON NTUED.BUT DESANTIS, OF URSE, SHOWS NO SIGN OF STOPPG: HIS RELENTLS CULTURE WAR HELPED LIFT HIM TO NATNAL PROMENCE, AND HE HAS MA HIS CENTRAL — NAY, HIS ONLY — PCH TO GOP VOTERS HIS SPUTTERG PRINTIAL MPAIGN. “WE’VE MA THE STATE OF FLORIDA THE PLACE WHERE WOKE GO TO DIE,” HE SAID AT A RECENT MPAIGN EVENT. “AND NOW, IS OUR MISSN AS AMERINS TO ENSURE THAT JANUARY 2025…WE LEAVE WOKE IOLOGY THE DTB OF HISTORY WHERE BELONGS.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANERIC LUTZ
• HOW FLORIDA'S 'DON’T SAY GAY' LAW HARMS LGBTQ+ STUNTS AND TEACHERS
• FACT CHECK: WORD 'GAY' NOT MENTNED IN FLORIDA BILL LIMG TEACHG ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATN, GENR INTY IN SCHOOL
• FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' (HB1557) EXPAND TO ALL GRAS. EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW:
• FLORIDA STUNTS STAGE SCHOOL WALKOUTS OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT FLORIDA'S NEW 'DON'T SAY GAY' RULE THAT BANS DISCSN OF GENR FOR ALL STUNTS
• SHOP SUAL WGIRL-SPIRED OUTFS FOR FALLOPEN MENUVIOSHOPCULTUREFAYWELLNSFOODLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICYYOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTSCHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICYINTERT-BASED ADSTERMS OF USEDO NOT SELL MY INFOCONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCHLIVGTEACHERS SPEAK OUT AS FLORIDA’S 'DON’T SAY GAY' BILL HEADS TO DESANTIS' SK1:29WHAT IS THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL?BYYI-J YUMARCH 16, 2022, 11:32 AM•6 M READTEACHERS FLORIDA AND AROUND THE UNTRY ARE SPEAKG OUT AS THE STATE'S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL HEADS TO THE ERNOR'S SK.THE NTROVERSIAL BILL BANS DISCSN “ON SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY” FLORIDA'S K-3 CLASSROOMS. OFFICIALLY KNOWN AS THE “PARENTAL RIGHTS EDUTN” BILL (HB 1557), IS SCHLED TO GO TO EFFECT ON JULY 1, IF GOV. RON DESANTIS, WHO HAS DITED HIS SUPPORT FOR THE BILL, SIGNS TO STATE LAW.ONE OF THE STIPULATNS HB 1557 STAT THAT “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 STANDARDS.”HOE REP. JOE HARDG, WHO SPONSORED THE BILL THE FLORIDA HOE, SPOKE TO ABC NEWS AFTER THE BILL PASSED.“WHAT WE'RE PREVENTG IS A SCHOOL DISTRICT CIDG THEY'RE GOG TO CREATE A CURRICULUM TO SERT THEMSELV," HE SAID AN TERVIEW WH ABC NEWS' “START HERE" PODST. "THE SCHOOL DISTRICT DON'T NEED TO SERT THEMSELV AT THAT POT WHEN CHILDREN ARE STILL LEARNG HOW TO READ AND DO BASIC MATH.”HIGH SCHOOL STUNTS, PECIALLY LGBTQ YOUTH HAVE BEEN PROTTG THE BILL, SAYG THE PENDG LEGISLATN WILL BE HARMFUL TO STUNTS WHO ARE ALREADY AT HIGHER RISK FOR ABE AND MENTAL HEALTH NDNS.SOME TEACHERS AND THEIR UNNS ARE ALSO LLG OUT THE BILL, SAYG 'S POLICIZG THE CLASSROOM AND WARNG THAT THE LEGISLATN ULD LEAD TO BULLYG.KARLA HERNáNZ-MATS, THE PRINT OF UNED TEACHERS OF DA, A LOL UNN THAT REPRENTS 30,000 EMPLOYE OF MIAMI-DA COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, TOLD “GMA” SHE HAS HEARD OM BOTH TEACHERS AND PARENTS ABOUT THE “PARENTAL RIGHTS EDUTN” BILL.“TEACHERS FD LUDICRO THAT WE'RE BEG ED AS SPEGOATS BEE, FIRST OF ALL, TEACHERS DON'T TEACH CHILDREN TO BE GAY. THAT'S ABSURD,” HERNáNZ-MATS SAID, POTG OUT THAT SEXUAL TN IS NOT A PART OF THE EXISTG K-3 CURRICULUM THE STATE.SHE WENT ON, "WE KNOW THAT THE CURRICULUM FOR EVERY SCHOOL FLORIDA IS SET BY THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EDUTN. SO WE UNRSTAND THAT THIS IS AN ATTACK ON TEACHERS, AN ATTACK ON STUNTS, AN ATTACK ON THEIR EEDOM. DPE THE ATTACKS, WE'RE GONNA KEEP ON PHG FORWARD."HERNáNZ-MATS SAID PARENTS ARE BEG MISLED ABOUT WHAT IS ACTUALLY BEG TGHT K-3 CLASSROOMS. SHE ALSO ARGUED THAT TEACHERS SHOULD HAVE THE ABILY TO GUI STUNTS WHEN NEW IAS AND NCEPTS ARE BROUGHT UP BY STUNTS THEMSELV.“THE REALY IS THAT IF THERE IS A CHILD THAT HAS SOMETHG THAT THEY WANT TO SAY THAT MAYBE THEY ONLY FEEL SAFE OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT, THEN WE SHOULD BE ABLE AS TORS NOT ONLY TO EMBRACE THEM AND LISTEN TO WHAT IS THAT THEY'RE SAYG BUT PROVI THEM THE ROURC ALSO SO THAT THEY N GET THE HELP THAT THEY NEED,” SAID HERNáNZ-MATS, WHO HAS ALSO WORKED AS A MIDDLE SCHOOL SPECIAL TN SCIENCE TEACHER.SOME TORS ARE ALSO VOICG THEIR SUPPORT FOR LGBTQ STUNTS AND SPEAKG OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND G THE HASHTAGS #DONTSAYGAY AND #DONTSAYGAYBILL ON PLATFORMS LIKE TIKTOK AND TWTER.MEGHAN MAYER, A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER NORTH PORT, FLORIDA, SHARED A TIKTOK VIO WH HER PERSPECTIVE, SAYG PART, “PUBLIC TN AMERI IS UNR ATTACK … THEY’RE NOW GOG AFTER OUR MOST VULNERABLE STUNT POPULATN, OUR LGBTQ+ STUNTS. THE STUNTS ALREADY FACE A HIGHER RATE OF BULLYG AND ARE AT HIGHER RISK OF SUICI AS PARED TO THEIR STRAIGHT, CISGENR PEERS.”“AS A FLORIDA TOR AND HONTLY AS A PARENT FLORIDA, I'M FEELG PRETTY HELPLS,” MAYER SAID, BEFORE TELLG VIEWERS TO VOTE WH THEIR WALLETS AND BOYTT RPORATNS THAT HAVE DONATED TO LAWMAKERS BEHD THE “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL.THE MIDDLE SCHOOL READG TEACHER, WHO IS NSIRG SWCHG TO THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL, TOLD “GMA” SHE IS NCERNED ABOUT S REAL-WORLD IMPACT ON STUNTS, SOME OF WHOM HAVE E TO HER ASKG FOR MORE RMATN ABOUT THE BILL.“IT'S SOMETHG THAT FELY NCERNS ME, MAKG THAT TRANSN OM MIDDLE TO ELEMENTARY BEE I WANT ALL OF MY STUNTS TO FEEL LOVED AND TO FEEL SEEN AND HEARD AND VALUED AND 'S GONNA BE REALLY DIFFICULT TO TELL A STUNT, ‘NO, YOU N'T TALK ABOUT YOUR FAY. NO, WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT,'" SHE SAID. "I MEAN, HOW DO YOU SAY THAT TO A KRGARTENER OR A FIRST GRAR?”MEGHAN MAYER HAS BEEN TEACHG READG TO MIDDLE SCHOOL STUNTS FOR SEVEN YEARS AND IS NCERNED ABOUT THE IMPACT OF FLORIDA'S RECENT PASSAGE OF THE "PARENTAL RIGHTS EDUTN" BILL.COURTY MEGHAN MAYERMAYER SAID SHE READ THE TEXT OF THE BILL AND FOUND S LANGUAGE “SO VAGUE.”“I JT FEEL LIKE IS REALLY GOG TO OPEN THE DOOR FOR JT A LOT OF DISCRIMATN. I THK 'S GOG TO DO A LOT OF HARM TO A LOT OF OUR STUNTS,” SHE SAID.MAYER ALSO SAID ’S NOT JT STUNTS WHO MIGHT BE AFFECTED BUT HER FELLOW TEACHERS AS WELL.“WHEN TEACHERS HAVE BEEN THROUGH SO MUCH ALREADY, JT LIKE A LOT OF OTHER SENTIAL WORKERS HAVE, A BILL LIKE THIS JT NTU TO VALIDATE AS TORS, LIKE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S BT," SHE SAID. "I THK THAT'S THE THG THAT BOTHERS ME THE MOST IS THAT, ‘DO YOU THK SO LTLE OF THAT YOU REALLY THK THAT WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S APPROPRIATE AND WHAT'S NOT APPROPRIATE TO TALK ABOUT WH STUNTS OUR CLASSROOM?’ ONCE AGA, WE’RE JT NOT RPECTED AS TORS.”“THIS BILL WORRI ME FOR TORS TOO, WHO ARE LGBTQ," MAYER NTUED. "BEE DO THAT MEAN THAT THEY N'T HAVE A PICTURE OF THEM AND THEIR SPOE ON THEIR SK FOR FEAR THAT SOMEBODY MIGHT ASK ABOUT AND THEN THAT'S GOG TO LEAD TO SOME SORT OF NVERSATN? I FEEL LIKE SPECIFILLY TARGETS LGBTQ STUNTS AND TEACHERS.”MEGHAN MAYER WONRS WHETHER SHE AND OTHER TEACHERS WILL BE ABLE TO DISPLAY FAY PHOTOS THE CLASSROOM IF THE "PARENTAL RIGHTS EDUTN" BILL GETS SIGNED TO STATE LAW FLORIDA.COURTY MEGHAN MAYERPRINT BIN HAS LLED THE BILL “HATEFUL” AND U.S. SECRETARY OF EDUTN MIGUEL CARDONA SAID HIS PARTMENT OPPOS THE STATE BILL.“LEARS FLORIDA ARE PRRIZG HATEFUL BILLS THAT HURT SOME OF THE STUNTS MOST NEED,” HE SAID A STATEMENT. “THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUTN HAS MA CLEAR THAT ALL SCHOOLS RECEIVG FERAL FUNDG MT FOLLOW FERAL CIVIL RIGHTS LAW, CLUDG TLE IX’S PROTECTNS AGAST DISCRIMATN BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY. WE STAND WH OUR LGBTQ+ STUNTS FLORIDA AND ACROSS THE UNTRY, AND URGE FLORIDA LEARS TO MAKE SURE ALL THEIR STUNTS ARE PROTECTED AND SUPPORTED.”RELATED TOPICSLGBTQUP NEXT LIVG—BRI SHAR MOM'S HILAR WEDDG PHOTO BOOK FAILAUGT 29, 2023LOOK UP! AUGT'S 'BLUE SUPERMOON' WON'T BE SEEN AGA UNTIL 2037AUGT 29, 2023DISNEY AND MAKE-A-WISH REACH 150,000 WISH GRANTED AT ONCE UPON A WISH PARTYAUGT 28, 2023HOW WBOYS, NSTCTN CREWS AND A NOE CLUB KEPT OTHER MI FIR OM BEG 'ANOTHER LAHAA'AUGT 25, 2023UP NEXT LIVG—BRI SHAR MOM'S HILAR WEDDG PHOTO BOOK FAILAUGT 29, 2023LOOK UP! AUGT'S 'BLUE SUPERMOON' WON'T BE SEEN AGA UNTIL 2037AUGT 29, 2023DISNEY AND MAKE-A-WISH REACH 150,000 WISH GRANTED AT ONCE UPON A WISH PARTYAUGT 28, 2023HOW WBOYS, NSTCTN CREWS AND A NOE CLUB KEPT OTHER MI FIR OM BEG 'ANOTHER LAHAA'AUGT 25, 2023

RON DESANTIS'S FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN: HEY, WHAT ABOUT THE “PERSONAL BENEF” OF BEG A SLAVE?FLORIDA’S NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS WILL FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY.BY ERIC LUTZJULY 20, 2023RON DESANTIS SPEAKS DURG A MPAIGN EVENT IOWA JULY 14.RACHEL MUMMEY/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVERON DESANTIS’S WAR ON “WOKENS” SCHOOLS ASCEND TO DANGERO NEW HEIGHTS WEDNDAY, AS FLORIDA’S STATE BOARD OF EDUTN APPROVED NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI CURRICULUM STANDARDS THAT, AMONG OTHER THGS, WOULD FORCE PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS TO LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE SUPPOSED UPSIS OF SLAVERY — A WHEWASHG OF HISTORY THAT THE STATE’S LARGT TEACHERS UNN CRIED AS A “BIG STEP BACKWARD” FOR TN.“GOV. DESANTIS IS PURSUG A POLIL AGENDA GUARANTEED TO SET GOOD PEOPLE AGAST ONE ANOTHER, AND THE PROCS HE’S CHEATG OUR KIDS,” ANDREW SPAR, PRINT OF THE FLORIDA EDUTN ASSOCIATN, SAID A STATEMENT BLASTG THE NEW AIN AMERIN STUDI STANDARDS. “THEY SERVE THE FULL TTH OF AMERIN HISTORY, THE GOOD AND THE BAD.”FLORIDA PUBLIC SCHOOL STUNTS MAY NOT GET THAT UNR THE NEW L APPROVED WEDNDAY, WHICH REQUIRE TEACHERS— A SECTN ON SLAVERY— TO NOTE THAT “SLAV VELOPED SKILLS, WHICH, SOME STANC, ULD BE APPLIED FOR THEIR PERSONAL BENEF.” IN A SECTN ON “RENSTCTN AND BEYOND,” A PERD MARKED BY JIM CROW AND ROUTE WHE TERRORISM ON BLACK MUNI, THE NEW L DICTATE THAT STUNTS MT BE TGHT ABOUT “ACTS OF VLENCE PERPETRATED AGAST AND BY AIN AMERINS,” WHICH, AS DEMOCRATIC STATE SENATOR GERALDE THOMPSON POTED OUT, SUGGTS CINTS LIKE THE OEE MASSACRE WERE “SPARKED BY VLENCE OM AIN AMERINS.”“THAT’S BLAMG THE VICTIMS,” SAID THOMPSON, WHO, AS THE WASHGTON POST NOT, HELPED PASS A 2020 LAW REQUIRG FLORIDA SCHOOLS TO TEACH ABOUT THE 1920 MASSACRE, WHICH A WHE MOB KILLED DOZENS OF BLACK RINTS OF OEE, FLORIDA, ELECTN DAY VLENCE. (MANNY DIAZ, FLORIDA'S TN MISSNER, PRAISED THE CHANG, SAYG THAT “THIS IS SOMETHG THAT IS GOG TO SET THE NORM FOR STANDARDS OTHER STAT.”)TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.THE NEW STANDARDS E AS DESANTIS, A NTENR FOR THE 2024 REPUBLIN NOMATN, LAT HIS WAR ON SO-LLED “WOKE” TN, WHICH HAS CLUD BOOK BANS, THE REJECTN OF AN ADVANCED PLACEMENT URSE ON AIN AMERIN STUDI, AND THE PASSAGE OF THE STOP WOKE ACT, WHICH PROHIBS THE STCTN OF MATERIAL THAT ULD MAKE SOMEONE FEEL “GUILT, ANGUISH OR ANY FORM OF PSYCHOLOGIL STRS.” HIS NCERN FOR THE POSSIBLE “ANGUISH” OF FLORIDA STUNTS DO NOT SEEM TO EXTEND TO BLACK STUNTS, WHO ULD BE FORCED TO LEARN ABOUT THE SUPPOSED “BENEF” OF SLAVERY, NOR DO SEEM TO EXTEND TO LGBTQ KIDS AND THEIR FAI, WHO HAVE ALSO BEEN TARGETED HIS BATTLE. DESANTIS EXPAND HIS “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW THIS YEAR, AND THE FLORIDA BOARD OF EDUTN VOTED WEDNDAY FOR L THAT TOOK EVEN FURTHER — CLUDG BY BARRG TEACHERS OM ASKG STUNTS THEIR PREFERRED PRONOUNS. DIAZ SAID THE MOVE WOULD PROTECT KIDS OM “UNWELE FLUENC AND DOCTRATN," PRAISG DESANTIS, THE LEGISLATN, AND THE BOARD FOR WHAT HE SCRIBED A STATEMENT AS THEIR “UNWAVERG MMENT TO THE HEALTH, WELLBEG AND SAFETY OF OUR STUNTS.” BUT, AS CRICS CHARGED, THE L NSTUTED AN LATN THE “POLILLY-MOTIVATED WAR ON PARENTS, STUNTS, AND TORS” FLORIDA. “OUR STUNTS SERVE CLASSROOMS WHERE ALL FAI ARE TREATED WH THE RPECT THEY SERVE AND ALL YOUNG PEOPLE ARE WELED,” JENNIFER SOLOMON, EQUALY FLORIDA PARENTS & FAI SUPPORT MANAGER, SAID A STATEMENT WEDNDAY. “INSTEAD, THE DESANTIS ADMISTRATN NTU TO WIELD THE STATE AGAST .”“STOP TURNG OUR KIDS’ CLASSROOMS TO POLIL BATTLEFIELDS TO SRE CHEAP POTS,” SOLOMON NTUED.BUT DESANTIS, OF URSE, SHOWS NO SIGN OF STOPPG: HIS RELENTLS CULTURE WAR HELPED LIFT HIM TO NATNAL PROMENCE, AND HE HAS MA HIS CENTRAL — NAY, HIS ONLY — PCH TO GOP VOTERS HIS SPUTTERG PRINTIAL MPAIGN. “WE’VE MA THE STATE OF FLORIDA THE PLACE WHERE WOKE GO TO DIE,” HE SAID AT A RECENT MPAIGN EVENT. “AND NOW, IS OUR MISSN AS AMERINS TO ENSURE THAT JANUARY 2025…WE LEAVE WOKE IOLOGY THE DTB OF HISTORY WHERE BELONGS.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR“IT’S RAG TEENS” AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?THE BT TV SHOWS OF 2023, SO FARSEX TOYS, FANCIAL CRIM, AND THE ORIG OF BARBIETHAT SOUND YOU HEAR IS DONALD TMP SCREAMG, CRYG, AND THROWG UP A MAR-A-LAGO BATHROOMIVANKA TMP IS NOT LETTG HER DAD’S MOUNTG LEGAL WO RU HER SUMMERINSI THE ACTORS STRIKE PRS APOLYPSE: “THE CELEBRY FACTORY HAS SHUT DOWN”IS ALL THIS AMATR THERAPY-SPEAK JT MAKG US LONELIER?FROM THE ARCHIVE: TOO HEPBURN FOR HOLLYWOOD (2006)MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHREMEMBERG SéAD O’CONNOR’S SUBLIME MIC AND RIGHTEO RAGEBY MIKE HOGANERIC LUTZ

DeSantis expand his “Don’t Say Gay” law this year, and the Florida Board of Edutn voted Wednday for l that took even further — cludg by barrg teachers om askg stunts their preferred pronouns. A few stat are nsirg passg a siar legislatn based on the "Don't Say Gay" law. Crics have labeled the legislatn as the “Don’t Say Gay” law, sayg lims eedom of exprsn and harms LGBTQ+ stunts and teachers.

Acrdg to 2019 data om the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn on Florida high schoolers prr to the implementatn of the “Don’t Say Gay” law, stunts who intified as gay, lbian, or bisexual were already substantially more likely to attempt suici, at 20.

Is 'Don’t Say Gay' Constutnal? Texas joed the list on Monday, wh Litenant Governor Dan Patrick sayg he will make passg “Don’t Say Gay”-style legislatn a top prry the next state legislative ssn, the Texas Tribute reported.

HOW FLORIDA'S 'DON’T SAY GAY' LAW HARMS LGBTQ+ STUNTS AND TEACHERS

“They’re jt ntug the fear mongerg om ssn, ” says Jon Harris Mrer, public policy director for Equaly Florida, scribg 2023 legislative chang that fall squarely to the more-of-the-same-homophobic-nonsense tegory. DeSantis support of anti-gay vio lled bad strategy, worse msage.

A provisn that would extend the famo “Don’t Say Gay” provisns to middle schools. Florida needs more public officials to fd the urage to stand up to Florida’s self-signated emperor and say “Governor, for someone so foced on ‘Don’t Say Gay, ’ you sure seem to brg up a lot. ”Will Larks, a graduate of Wter Park High School who ran the gay-straight alliance there, said the board told him the policy on extracurriculars means stunts would have to get permissn to attend GSA meetgs, somethg that would endanger closeted stunts.

“We had several stunts who were livg homels at 16, 17 years old bee their parents kicked them out of their hoe for beg gay, for beg trans, ” Larks said at the meetg, acrdg to Florida Today.

FACT CHECK: WORD 'GAY' NOT MENTNED IN FLORIDA BILL LIMG TEACHG ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATN, GENR INTY IN SCHOOL

”Pictured: Florida Edutn Commissner Manny Diaz Your Se ArticlFlorida Lawmakers OK Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill, 'Don't Say Gay' Expansn ›Fla.

May Say Gay. Did the Florida legislature ban the word "gay" the state?

FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' (HB1557) EXPAND TO ALL GRAS. EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW:

The word gay never appears the seven pag of legislatn. LGBTQ activists have dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill bee would lim what classrooms n teach about sexual orientatn and genr inty. Jt remember, the party of limed ernment and ee speech banned the word gay the state of Florida.

Ron DeSantis (R) signed to law a measure, the Parental Rights Edutn bill, that crics have succsfully labeled the “Don’t Say Gay” certaly aims to lim LGBTQ discsn schools.

For olr stunts, discsn about gay and transgenr issu has to be “age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate. A bill workg s way through the Tennsee legislature would prevent schools om g textbooks or materials that “promote, normalize, support, or addrs lbian, gay, bi-sexual, or transgenr issu or liftyl. Florida ernor Ron DeSantis signed the state’s much-discsed Parental Rights Edutn bill—much more equently lled the Don’t Say Gay bill—to law on Monday, makg the state the fifth the natn where tors and staff are explicly prohibed om discsg LGBTQ people and issu as part of curriculums public schools.

FLORIDA STUNTS STAGE SCHOOL WALKOUTS OVER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

Other active Don’t Say Gay tn bills exist Texas, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Louisiana. The prev s had, on the ntrary, seen the removal of several Don’t Say Gay statut ncerng public schools.

Acrdg to The Hill, the state’s bill uld be jt the begng of a wave of new Don’t Say Gay legislatn for schools.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT FLORIDA'S NEW 'DON'T SAY GAY' RULE THAT BANS DISCSN OF GENR FOR ALL STUNTS

New wave of Don't Say Gay bills? Olr Don’t Say Gay laws had generally also rtricted stctn for all age levels, wh their wordg rangg om “homosexualy is not a liftyle acceptable to the general public” (Texas) to puttg LGBTQ sexualy the same tegory as tn about “current state laws related to sexual nduct, cludg forcible rape, statutory rape” (Mississippi), even though gay sex is no longer an offense the state as of 2003.

SHOP SUAL WGIRL-SPIRED OUTFS FOR FALLOPEN MENUVIOSHOPCULTUREFAYWELLNSFOODLIVGSTYLETRAVELNEWSBOOK CLUBGMA3: WYNTKNEWSLETTERPRIVACY POLICYYOUR US STATE PRIVACY RIGHTSCHILDREN'S ONLE PRIVACY POLICYINTERT-BASED ADSTERMS OF USEDO NOT SELL MY INFOCONTACT USCOPYRIGHT © 2023 ABC NEWS INTER VENTUR. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SEARCHLIVGTEACHERS SPEAK OUT AS FLORIDA’S 'DON’T SAY GAY' BILL HEADS TO DESANTIS' SK1:29WHAT IS THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL?BYYI-J YUMARCH 16, 2022, 11:32 AM•6 M READTEACHERS FLORIDA AND AROUND THE UNTRY ARE SPEAKG OUT AS THE STATE'S “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL HEADS TO THE ERNOR'S SK.THE NTROVERSIAL BILL BANS DISCSN “ON SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY” FLORIDA'S K-3 CLASSROOMS. OFFICIALLY KNOWN AS THE “PARENTAL RIGHTS EDUTN” BILL (HB 1557), IS SCHLED TO GO TO EFFECT ON JULY 1, IF GOV. RON DESANTIS, WHO HAS DITED HIS SUPPORT FOR THE BILL, SIGNS TO STATE LAW.ONE OF THE STIPULATNS HB 1557 STAT THAT “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 STANDARDS.”HOE REP. JOE HARDG, WHO SPONSORED THE BILL THE FLORIDA HOE, SPOKE TO ABC NEWS AFTER THE BILL PASSED.“WHAT WE'RE PREVENTG IS A SCHOOL DISTRICT CIDG THEY'RE GOG TO CREATE A CURRICULUM TO SERT THEMSELV," HE SAID AN TERVIEW WH ABC NEWS' “START HERE" PODST. "THE SCHOOL DISTRICT DON'T NEED TO SERT THEMSELV AT THAT POT WHEN CHILDREN ARE STILL LEARNG HOW TO READ AND DO BASIC MATH.”HIGH SCHOOL STUNTS, PECIALLY LGBTQ YOUTH HAVE BEEN PROTTG THE BILL, SAYG THE PENDG LEGISLATN WILL BE HARMFUL TO STUNTS WHO ARE ALREADY AT HIGHER RISK FOR ABE AND MENTAL HEALTH NDNS.SOME TEACHERS AND THEIR UNNS ARE ALSO LLG OUT THE BILL, SAYG 'S POLICIZG THE CLASSROOM AND WARNG THAT THE LEGISLATN ULD LEAD TO BULLYG.KARLA HERNáNZ-MATS, THE PRINT OF UNED TEACHERS OF DA, A LOL UNN THAT REPRENTS 30,000 EMPLOYE OF MIAMI-DA COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, TOLD “GMA” SHE HAS HEARD OM BOTH TEACHERS AND PARENTS ABOUT THE “PARENTAL RIGHTS EDUTN” BILL.“TEACHERS FD LUDICRO THAT WE'RE BEG ED AS SPEGOATS BEE, FIRST OF ALL, TEACHERS DON'T TEACH CHILDREN TO BE GAY. THAT'S ABSURD,” HERNáNZ-MATS SAID, POTG OUT THAT SEXUAL TN IS NOT A PART OF THE EXISTG K-3 CURRICULUM THE STATE.SHE WENT ON, "WE KNOW THAT THE CURRICULUM FOR EVERY SCHOOL FLORIDA IS SET BY THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EDUTN. SO WE UNRSTAND THAT THIS IS AN ATTACK ON TEACHERS, AN ATTACK ON STUNTS, AN ATTACK ON THEIR EEDOM. DPE THE ATTACKS, WE'RE GONNA KEEP ON PHG FORWARD."HERNáNZ-MATS SAID PARENTS ARE BEG MISLED ABOUT WHAT IS ACTUALLY BEG TGHT K-3 CLASSROOMS. SHE ALSO ARGUED THAT TEACHERS SHOULD HAVE THE ABILY TO GUI STUNTS WHEN NEW IAS AND NCEPTS ARE BROUGHT UP BY STUNTS THEMSELV.“THE REALY IS THAT IF THERE IS A CHILD THAT HAS SOMETHG THAT THEY WANT TO SAY THAT MAYBE THEY ONLY FEEL SAFE OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT, THEN WE SHOULD BE ABLE AS TORS NOT ONLY TO EMBRACE THEM AND LISTEN TO WHAT IS THAT THEY'RE SAYG BUT PROVI THEM THE ROURC ALSO SO THAT THEY N GET THE HELP THAT THEY NEED,” SAID HERNáNZ-MATS, WHO HAS ALSO WORKED AS A MIDDLE SCHOOL SPECIAL TN SCIENCE TEACHER.SOME TORS ARE ALSO VOICG THEIR SUPPORT FOR LGBTQ STUNTS AND SPEAKG OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND G THE HASHTAGS #DONTSAYGAY AND #DONTSAYGAYBILL ON PLATFORMS LIKE TIKTOK AND TWTER.MEGHAN MAYER, A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER NORTH PORT, FLORIDA, SHARED A TIKTOK VIO WH HER PERSPECTIVE, SAYG PART, “PUBLIC TN AMERI IS UNR ATTACK … THEY’RE NOW GOG AFTER OUR MOST VULNERABLE STUNT POPULATN, OUR LGBTQ+ STUNTS. THE STUNTS ALREADY FACE A HIGHER RATE OF BULLYG AND ARE AT HIGHER RISK OF SUICI AS PARED TO THEIR STRAIGHT, CISGENR PEERS.”“AS A FLORIDA TOR AND HONTLY AS A PARENT FLORIDA, I'M FEELG PRETTY HELPLS,” MAYER SAID, BEFORE TELLG VIEWERS TO VOTE WH THEIR WALLETS AND BOYTT RPORATNS THAT HAVE DONATED TO LAWMAKERS BEHD THE “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL.THE MIDDLE SCHOOL READG TEACHER, WHO IS NSIRG SWCHG TO THE ELEMENTARY LEVEL, TOLD “GMA” SHE IS NCERNED ABOUT S REAL-WORLD IMPACT ON STUNTS, SOME OF WHOM HAVE E TO HER ASKG FOR MORE RMATN ABOUT THE BILL.“IT'S SOMETHG THAT FELY NCERNS ME, MAKG THAT TRANSN OM MIDDLE TO ELEMENTARY BEE I WANT ALL OF MY STUNTS TO FEEL LOVED AND TO FEEL SEEN AND HEARD AND VALUED AND 'S GONNA BE REALLY DIFFICULT TO TELL A STUNT, ‘NO, YOU N'T TALK ABOUT YOUR FAY. NO, WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT,'" SHE SAID. "I MEAN, HOW DO YOU SAY THAT TO A KRGARTENER OR A FIRST GRAR?”MEGHAN MAYER HAS BEEN TEACHG READG TO MIDDLE SCHOOL STUNTS FOR SEVEN YEARS AND IS NCERNED ABOUT THE IMPACT OF FLORIDA'S RECENT PASSAGE OF THE "PARENTAL RIGHTS EDUTN" BILL.COURTY MEGHAN MAYERMAYER SAID SHE READ THE TEXT OF THE BILL AND FOUND S LANGUAGE “SO VAGUE.”“I JT FEEL LIKE IS REALLY GOG TO OPEN THE DOOR FOR JT A LOT OF DISCRIMATN. I THK 'S GOG TO DO A LOT OF HARM TO A LOT OF OUR STUNTS,” SHE SAID.MAYER ALSO SAID ’S NOT JT STUNTS WHO MIGHT BE AFFECTED BUT HER FELLOW TEACHERS AS WELL.“WHEN TEACHERS HAVE BEEN THROUGH SO MUCH ALREADY, JT LIKE A LOT OF OTHER SENTIAL WORKERS HAVE, A BILL LIKE THIS JT NTU TO VALIDATE AS TORS, LIKE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S BT," SHE SAID. "I THK THAT'S THE THG THAT BOTHERS ME THE MOST IS THAT, ‘DO YOU THK SO LTLE OF THAT YOU REALLY THK THAT WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S APPROPRIATE AND WHAT'S NOT APPROPRIATE TO TALK ABOUT WH STUNTS OUR CLASSROOM?’ ONCE AGA, WE’RE JT NOT RPECTED AS TORS.”“THIS BILL WORRI ME FOR TORS TOO, WHO ARE LGBTQ," MAYER NTUED. "BEE DO THAT MEAN THAT THEY N'T HAVE A PICTURE OF THEM AND THEIR SPOE ON THEIR SK FOR FEAR THAT SOMEBODY MIGHT ASK ABOUT AND THEN THAT'S GOG TO LEAD TO SOME SORT OF NVERSATN? I FEEL LIKE SPECIFILLY TARGETS LGBTQ STUNTS AND TEACHERS.”MEGHAN MAYER WONRS WHETHER SHE AND OTHER TEACHERS WILL BE ABLE TO DISPLAY FAY PHOTOS THE CLASSROOM IF THE "PARENTAL RIGHTS EDUTN" BILL GETS SIGNED TO STATE LAW FLORIDA.COURTY MEGHAN MAYERPRINT BIN HAS LLED THE BILL “HATEFUL” AND U.S. SECRETARY OF EDUTN MIGUEL CARDONA SAID HIS PARTMENT OPPOS THE STATE BILL.“LEARS FLORIDA ARE PRRIZG HATEFUL BILLS THAT HURT SOME OF THE STUNTS MOST NEED,” HE SAID A STATEMENT. “THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUTN HAS MA CLEAR THAT ALL SCHOOLS RECEIVG FERAL FUNDG MT FOLLOW FERAL CIVIL RIGHTS LAW, CLUDG TLE IX’S PROTECTNS AGAST DISCRIMATN BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY. WE STAND WH OUR LGBTQ+ STUNTS FLORIDA AND ACROSS THE UNTRY, AND URGE FLORIDA LEARS TO MAKE SURE ALL THEIR STUNTS ARE PROTECTED AND SUPPORTED.”RELATED TOPICSLGBTQUP NEXT LIVG—BRI SHAR MOM'S HILAR WEDDG PHOTO BOOK FAILAUGT 29, 2023LOOK UP! AUGT'S 'BLUE SUPERMOON' WON'T BE SEEN AGA UNTIL 2037AUGT 29, 2023DISNEY AND MAKE-A-WISH REACH 150,000 WISH GRANTED AT ONCE UPON A WISH PARTYAUGT 28, 2023HOW WBOYS, NSTCTN CREWS AND A NOE CLUB KEPT OTHER MI FIR OM BEG 'ANOTHER LAHAA'AUGT 25, 2023UP NEXT LIVG—BRI SHAR MOM'S HILAR WEDDG PHOTO BOOK FAILAUGT 29, 2023LOOK UP! AUGT'S 'BLUE SUPERMOON' WON'T BE SEEN AGA UNTIL 2037AUGT 29, 2023DISNEY AND MAKE-A-WISH REACH 150,000 WISH GRANTED AT ONCE UPON A WISH PARTYAUGT 28, 2023HOW WBOYS, NSTCTN CREWS AND A NOE CLUB KEPT OTHER MI FIR OM BEG 'ANOTHER LAHAA'AUGT 25, 2023

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Florida’s ntroversial Parental Rights Edutn Act, also lled the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, has been expand to now clu fourth through 12th gras. Ron DeSantis and is expected to go to effect after a procral notice perd of about a ’s what you need to know about the bill’s expansn:What is Florida’s "Don’t Say Gay" law (HB 1557)? ”Expandg the bill:Florida bans teachg of genr inty, sexualy through 12th graFlorida LGBTQ advot:Expandg so-lled 'Don't Say Gay' law says 'quiet part out loud'The Natnal Edutn Associatn (NEA) poted out that the vaguely word law don’t explicly fe the terms “stctn, ” “sexual orientatn” or “genr inty, ” and lead to nfn among LGBTQ tors who said they weren’t sure if they need to hi their own inti and how nfn raised more qutns that the wordg the bill uldn’t answer.

Edorial:Whether 'Don't Say Gay' or 'Sue the Schools', state should scrap bad lawmakgHow has the bill impacted Florida schools? Stunts across Florida staged school walkouts rponse to legislatn — dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill — that would prohib discsg sexual orientatn and genr inty the state’s primary schools.