How Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ law uld harm children’s mental health | Florida | The Guardian

Contents:

• ARE YOU A DOCTOR WHO HAT TREATG GAY PEOPLE? COME TO FLORIDA, WHERE RON DESANTIS HAS LEGALISED BIGOTRY
• LGBTQ+ PSYCHIATRISTS FLORIDA
• HOW FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW ULD HARM CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH

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

If you are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and/or intify as a sexual and/or genr mory and are lookg for LGBTQ+ affirmg doctors, physicians, clicians, and healthre provirs, you have e to the right place. READ NEXTIsland Hoe Staff Says “Keep Key Wt Gay”Atomic Blon: Our Film Crics Discs ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’Pope Tells Transgenr Catholic: “God Lov Us As We Are”Chechen Pop Star Was Tortured and Executed.

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

LGBTQ+ PSYCHIATRISTS FLORIDA

” I’m not sure what “the basics” are but they clearly don’t clu studyg Michelangelo or watchg animated films sce, earlier this year, a Florida prcipal had to rign after parents were outraged that their kids were shown a picture of Michelangelo’s David and now a Florida teacher is beg vtigated for showg her class a Disney movie featurg a gay banned everythg sight, DeSantis’s next big project appears to be modifyg Florida’s “rign-to-n” law so that he n n for print while still servg as ernor. ”Jenny Pizer, lambda legalAdvot and legal experts say the laws will further raise the barriers to health re for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer patients.

Ron DeSantis signed legislatn banng certa stctn about sexual orientatn and genr inty the classroom, approvg the ntroversial measure that opponents have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law. And Geia, lawmakers troduced a bill siar to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Opponents have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, argug the ban creat would negatively impact LGBTQ youth.

HOW FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW ULD HARM CHILDREN’S MENTAL HEALTH

Jt over a year ago, DeSantis gurated his “Don’t Say Gay” law, which banned disurse, teachg, and books on queer and trans inty early gras.

“I’m so grateful that [Stella] is somewhere that se” the fay “as what is: her moms jt love her”, said Kelsey Hanley, Stella’s birth mother, who liv Kissimmee, Hanley, 30, worri that children who have multiple moms or dads or are LGBTQ+ themselv won’t get the same acceptance ’s bee the state recently approved legislatn that bans classroom stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty om krgarten through third gra and prohibs such lsons for olr stunts unls they are “age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate” and some pediatric psychologists say the law stigmatiz beg gay or transgenr and uld harm the mental health of LGBTQ+ youth, who are already more likely to face bullyg and attempt suici than children who are cisgenr and straight. ”The Parental Rights Edutn legislatn, which opponents labeled the “don’t say gay” bill, is part of a flurry of measur troduced by Republin lawmakers around the untry. At schools that did have an LGBTQ+ clive curriculum, 59% of rponnts said they often or equently heard the word “gay” ed a negative way, pared wh almost 80% of stunts at schools that did not have clive curriculum.