Florida Passed The Don’t Say Gay Bill. Here's What It Means | Time

Contents:

• ARE YOU A DOCTOR WHO HAT TREATG GAY PEOPLE? COME TO FLORIDA, WHERE RON DESANTIS HAS LEGALISED BIGOTRY
• FACT-CHECKG 3 PROMENT CLAIMS ABOUT FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• DESANTIS-BACKED 'DONT SAY GAY' BILL SPARKS OUTRAGE
• FLORIDA JT PASSED THE "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL. HERE’S WHAT IT MEANS FOR KIDS
• PROTTS NTUE AGAST FLORIDA 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• DESANTIS SIGNS FLORIDA BILL THAT OPPONENTS CALL ‘DON’T SAY GAY’
• FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL SPIRED A CHILLG WAVE OF REPUBLIN LEGISLATN
• FLORIDA’S NEW ANTI-GAY, ANTI-WOMAN BILL MAY BE THE MOST MALIC YET

ARE YOU A DOCTOR WHO HAT TREATG GAY PEOPLE? COME TO FLORIDA, WHERE RON DESANTIS HAS LEGALISED BIGOTRY

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FACT-CHECKG 3 PROMENT CLAIMS ABOUT FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

On 1 July, a new law go to effect that means a doctor n look a potential patient up and down, ci they are givg off homosexual vib and refe to treat them bee teractg wh gay people go agast their personal beliefs.

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

And most notably, Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law was passed a year ago, which banned discsn of LGBTQ+ inti most classrooms.

LGBTQ+ activists prott agast Florida ernor Ron Dantis, who passed the “Don’t Say Gay” law. HB1403 one year on om Florida’s famo “Don’t Say Gay” law beg passed, banng discsn of LGBTQ+ inti most classrooms – legislatn that activists fear uld be place for s.

DESANTIS-BACKED 'DONT SAY GAY' BILL SPARKS OUTRAGE

But crics nicknamed HB 1557 the “don’t say gay” bill, warng isn’t necsary and mak some stunts feel unsafe by sglg out LGBTQ material as dangero and appropriate.

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

Dennis Baxley (R-Ola) the bill’s Senate sponsor who said he was addrsg “social engeerg” that uld rult more children intifyg as gay or transgenr.

PROTTS NTUE AGAST FLORIDA 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

” The guidance clus fns of terms related to sexual orientatn and genr inty — cludg gay, lbian and transgenr — that teachers are enuraged to e when applible. ” The word ‘gay’ People on Facebook and Twter have said that Florida Republins want to ban the word “gay” school. “GOP’s 2022 platform: Ban books, Ban abortn, Ban Black history, Ban transgenr teens, Ban sayg ‘gay’ and Ban votg, ” said Dean Obeidallah, a left-leang rad host and edian, on March 11.

’” On SNL’s “Weekend Update” segment, anchor Col Jost told st member Kate McKnon, who is gay, that the bill “means that you n’t acknowledge that ‘gay’ exists at all. ” McKnon then slammed the legislatn, sayg, “I am eply gay — sorry, eply ncerned.

It jt seems like this is gog to make kids gay and trans — sorry, prsed and suicidal. ” The claims n largely be attributed to the legislatn’s “don’t say gay” nickname, ed by Equaly Florida.

DESANTIS SIGNS FLORIDA BILL THAT OPPONENTS CALL ‘DON’T SAY GAY’

The legislatn do not lerally prohib Floridians om sayg the word “gay, ” but do prohib “classroom discsn about sexual orientatn or genr inty.

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’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL SPIRED A CHILLG WAVE OF REPUBLIN LEGISLATN

” 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.

FLORIDA’S NEW ANTI-GAY, ANTI-WOMAN BILL MAY BE THE MOST MALIC YET

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. A Florida bill that would lim classroom discsns on sexual orientatn and genr inty and enurage parents to sue schools or teachers that engage the topics ntu to move through the state Hoe and 's beg lled a "Don't Say Gay" bill by LGBTQ advot, who fear that if this bill is signed to law, uld act as a plete ban on the lsons on LGBTQ opprsn, history and discsns about LGBTQ amendment to the bill was proposed Friday that also would require school officials to disclose a stunt's sexual or genr inty to their parents wh six weeks of fdg out about the stunt's inty.

Ron DeSantis and the state legislature for the efforts last month a Twter advocy anizatns say the bills are remiscent of the “no promo homo” laws of the 1990s that barred tors om discsg queer topics schools, but wh an add mandate on parent and fay volvement. Tallahassee, Florida – Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the natn’s largt lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights anizatn, nmns Gov.