‘It’s had a chillg effect’: Florida teachers anx about ‘don’t say gay’ bill | Florida | The Guardian

Contents:

• CAN FLORIDA’S GAY TEACHERS SHOW PHOTOS? THE WHE HOE CLAIMED NOT.
• I’M A GAY KRGARTEN TEACHER FLORIDA. THE ARE THE QUTNS I’M ASKG MYSELF.
• LGBTQ TEACHERS STGGLE TO NAVIGATE FLORIDA'S SO-CALLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW
• LGBTQ+ TEACHERS TOLD TO HI WHO THEY ARE AS DON’T SAY GAY GO TO EFFECT
• FLORIDA TEACHERS NAVIGATE THEIR FIRST YEAR UNR THE 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW
• KARE JEAN-PIERRE REPEATS FALSE CLAIM GAY TEACHERS FLORIDA N’T HAVE SPOE PHOTOS ON SK
• ‘IT’S HAD A CHILLG EFFECT’: FLORIDA TEACHERS ANX ABOUT ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• TEACHERS TOLD TO REMOVE RABOWS, PHOTOS OF SAME-SEX SPO AS DESANTIS’ ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW GO INTO EFFECT
• AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS
• FLORIDA TEACHERS GET NEW MARCHG ORRS AS “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW GO TO EFFECT, AND ’S NOT PRETTY
• ‘I DON’T WANT TO TALK TO THE GAY ONE’: LGBTQ TEACHERS SAY THEY ARE FIGHTG ERASURE THEIR OWN CLASSROOMS
• ANALYSIS | CAN FLORIDA’S GAY TEACHERS SHOW PHOTOS? THE WHE HOE CLAIMED NOT.
• FLORIDA SCHOOL SYSTEM HAS CLOSED VTIGATN TO TEACHER WHO SHOWED DISNEY MOVIE WH GAY CHARACTER
• RON DESANTIS’S “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW HAS ALREADY MA FLORIDA SCHOOLS DYSTOPIAN HELLSPWH THE ANTI-LGBTQ+ LAW OFFICIALLY EFFECT, TEACHERS ARE SRED TO WEAR RABOWS, HAVE PICTUR OF THEIR SAME-SEX SPO, AND SOME PLAC HAVE TO NOTIFY PARENTS UPON THE “TERMATN” OF AN “OPEN” LGBTQ+ STUNT THE CLASS.BY BS LEVJULY 1, 2022MIAMI, FLORIDA - APRIL 08: FLORIDA GOV. RON DESANTIS SPEAKS TO THE MEDIA ABOUT THE CISE DTRY DURG A PRS NFERENCE AT PORTMIAMI ON APRIL 08, 2021 MIAMI, FLORIDA. THE GOVERNOR ANNOUNCED THAT THE STATE IS SUG THE FERAL ERNMENT TO ALLOW CIS TO RUME FLORIDA. (PHOTO BY JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAG)JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWHEN TO AMERI’S SCENT TO A DYSTOPIAN HELLSPE, MOST PEOPLE HAVE PROBABLY SPENT THE LAST SEVERAL WEEKS FOCED ON THGS LIKE THE ONGOG REVELATNS OM THE JANUARY 6 MTEE REGARDG DONALD TMP’S ATTEMPT TO OVERTURN MOCRACY, AND CISNS OM THE SUPREME COURT LG THAT THERE’S NO MORE SEPARATN OF CHURCH AND STATE, WOMEN DON’T HAVE RIGHTS, AND AL PANI N KILL ALL. (TO SAY NOTHG OF THE FACT THAT, NEXT TERM, THEY MAY MAKE LEGAL FOR REPUBLINS TO STEAL ELECTNS.) BUT ’S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT TMP AND THE HIGH URT’S CHRISTOFASCISTS AREN’T THE ONLY PEOPLE WE NEED TO WORRY ABOUT. THERE ARE ALSO ELECTED OFFICIALS LIKE RON DESANTIS, WHO HAS A NOT-SIGNIFINT CHANCE OF BEG PRINT 2024. LIKE TMP, THE FLORIDA ERNOR TAK IMMENSE PRI BEG A BULLY; HE BULLIED THE SPECIAL OLYMPICS, HE BULLIED DISNEY, HE BULLI ANYONE WHO DISAGRE WH HIM, AND THE WORDS OF ONE OF HIS LLEGE TEAMMAT TO THE NEW YORKER: “RON IS THE MOST SELFISH PERSON I HAVE EVER TERACTED WH. HE HAS ALWAYS LOVED EMBARRASSG AND HUIATG PEOPLE. I’M SPEAKG FOR OTHERS—HE WAS THE BIGGT DICK WE KNEW.”WHAT MIGHT THE UNTRY LOOK LIKE SHOULD DESANTIS ASCEND TO THE WHE HOE? IN A WORD: SRY. IN THREE WORDS: REALLY FUCKG SRY. IN 20 WORDS: IT’LL BE THE KD OF PLACE WHERE TEACHERS ARE WARNED NOT TO DISPLAY RABOW FLAGS FOR FEAR OF BEG PROSECUTED.Y, ON FRIDAY, DANTIS’S PARENTAL RIGHTS EDUTN ACT, A.K.A. THE “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW, WENT TO EFFECT FLORIDA, AND ’S HARD TO OVERSTATE HOW TERRIFYG THIS WHOLE THG IS. IN ADDN TO BANNG ANY TALK OF GENR INTY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATN KRGARTEN THROUGH THIRD GRA, ALSO PROHIBS SUCH DISCSNS ALL THE WAY THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL, SAYG THAT SUCH TOPICS NNOT BE DISCSED ANY GRA A MANNER THAT IS NOT “AGE-APPROPRIATE OR VELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE.” (NATURALLY, THE LAW DO NOT SPECIFY WHAT IS NSIRED “APPROPRIATE”; THAT FN MAY NOT E OM THE STATE’S DEPARTMENT OF EDUTN UNTIL NEXT SUMMER.) CRICS BELIEVE THE LAW WAS WRTEN AN TENTNALLY BROAD MANNER TO SRE SCHOOL DISTRICTS, WHICH PARENTS N SUE IF THEY BELIEVE THE MEASURE HAS BEEN VLATED. “WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE CULTURE OF FEAR THAT THIS BILL HAS CREATED AND THE CHILLG EFFECT, WE’RE TALKG ABOUT THE FACT THAT TORS AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE SRED TO APPROACH ANYTHG RELATED TO LGBTQ PEOPLE OR ISSU OUT OF FEAR OF LAWSUS AND PROFSNAL ,” FLORIDA REPRENTATIVE CARLOS GUILLERMO SMH TOLD THE HILL.FOR STANCE, THE ORANGE COUNTY CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOCIATN ACCED SCHOOL OFFICIALS THIS WEEK OF TELLG TEACHERS NOT TO WEAR CLOTHG WH RABOWS ON THEM AND TO GET RID OF “SAFE SPACE” STICKERS AND PHOTOS OF THEIR SAME-SEX SPO, ACRDG TO NBC NEWS. LAST MONTH, ACRDG TO PALM BEACH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL SPECIAL TN TEACHER MICHAEL WOODS, THE PALM BEACH COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT “SENT OUT A QUTNNAIRE ASKG S TEACHERS TO REVIEW ALL URSE MATERIAL AND FLAG ANY BOOKS WH REFERENC TO SEXUAL ORIENTATN, GENR INTY OR RACE.” (ACRDG TO WOODS, SEVERAL WEEKS PRR, THE DISTRICT REMOVED THE BOOKS I AM JAZZ AND CALL ME MAX, FOR SEEMGLY REFERENCG GENR INTY.) AND ON TUDAY, ACRDG TO NBC, THE LEON COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD APPROVED A “LGBTQ INCLIVE GUI,” WHICH CLUS A CLSE THAT SAYS PARENTS MT BE RMED IF A STUNT WHO IS “OPEN ABOUT THEIR GENR INTY” IS THEIR CHILD’S GYM CLASS OR WH THEM ON AN OVERNIGHT SCHOOL TRIP. “UPON NOTIFITN OR TERMATN OF A STUNT WHO IS OPEN ABOUT THEIR GENR INTY, PARENTS OF THE AFFECTED STUNTS WILL BE NOTIFIED OF REASONABLE ACMODATN OPTNS AVAILABLE,” THE GUIL STATE. “PARENTS OR STUNTS WHO HAVE NCERNS ABOUT ROOMG ASSIGNMENTS FOR THEIR STUNT’S UPG OVERNIGHT EVENT BASED ON RELIG OR PRIVACY NCERNS MAY REQUT AN ACMODATN.”MEANWHILE, AS NBC NOT, DESANTIS HAS SUGGTED THIS IS ONLY THE BEGNG, SAYG AN TERVIEW WH FOX NEWS APRIL THAT “THGS LIKE WOKE GENR IOLOGY HAVE NO PLACE THE SCHOOLS, PERD.” BRANDON WOLF, PRS SECRETARY FOR EQUALY FLORIDA—ONE OF THE GROUPS SUG THE DESANTIS ADMISTRATN OVER THE LAW—TOLD THE HILL: “WE’VE ALWAYS UNRSTOOD WHAT WE’RE UP AGAST THE STATE OF FLORIDA. WE KNOW THE LAWMAKERS, WE KNOW THE RIGHTWARD SHIFT THAT HAS HAPPENED UNR GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS.” HE ADD THAT HE FEARS THE MEASURE WILL ONLY CREASE ANTI-LGBTQ+ VLENCE, WHICH CREASED OM 2020 TO 2021 AND IS ON TRACK TO BE WORSE 2022, ACRDG TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOTN & EVENT DATA PROJECT. “IT FEELS VERY OMO THAT A STATE THAT SAW THE ADLIT ATTACK ON LGBTQ PEOPLE THIS NATN’S HISTORY…THAT WE WOULD BE HAVG NVERSATNS ABOUT ERASG OUR HISTORY, OUR LIV, OUR LIVED EXPERIENC OM CLASSROOMS,” WOLF SAID.MEANWHILE, TEXAS…A GROUP OF “TORS” REPORTEDLY PROPOSED TO THE STATE’S BOARD OF TN THAT SLAVERY SHOULD BE LLED “VOLUNTARY RELOTN.” Y, REALLY! OPPOSN TO THE SUGGTED CHANGE, WHICH WOULD SORT OF BE LIKE LLG HLER’S SYSTEMIC MURR OF 6 LN JEWS “POPULATN DOWNSIZG,” APPARENTLY ME UP DURG A JUNE 15 MEETG, AT WHICH A DEMOCRAT WHO REPRENTS DALLAS AND FORT WORTH NOTED THAT THE NEW WORDG WOULD NOT BE A “FAIR REPRENTATN” OF THE SLAVE TRA. BOARD MEMBERS, ACRDG TO THE TEXAS TRIBUNE, HAVE ASKED THE GROUP “TO RENSIR THE PHRASG,” WRG: “FOR K–2, REFULLY EXAME THE LANGUAGE ED TO SCRIBE EVENTS, SPECIFILLY THE TERM ‘VOLUNTARY RELOTN.’” BEE APPARENTLY “ARE YOU FUCKG KIDDG ME?” OR “WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WH YOU?” IS NSIRED APPROPRIATE.WHILE MICHIGAN…TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.MOST POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT A SER SETBACKBY BS LEVMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLEGEIA REPUBLINS SAY THEY'LL MOVE TO REMOVE FULTON COUNTY DA FANI WILLIS FROM OFFICE WH NEW STATE LAWBY ERIC LUTZWHEN “PRO-LIFE” MEANS LETTG PEOPLE YOU DON’T LIKE DIETWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.ELSEWHERE!“I CANNOT THK OF MANY THGS MORE FRIGHTENG”: THE SUPREME COURT HAS DECLARED WAR ON GOVERNG (V.F.)E.P.A. 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THERE’S AN EXPLANATN (NBC BAY AREA)ABANDONED BURGER KG FOUND BEHD WALL AT DELAWARE MALL (UPI)MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIRHOW FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE REALYEXCLIVE NEW DETAILS ABOUT MEGHAN MARKLE’S WEDDG DRSWHY THE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKGHERE’S WHAT WE NEED SEASON 3 OF AND JT LIKE THAT…THE BRIEF DEATH (AND SHORT REBIRTH) OF LIL TAYINSI ANDREW STT AND PL ML’S METAPHYSIL LOVE STORYFROM THE ARCHIVE: A FATHER’S ACUNT OF THE TRIAL OF HIS DGHTER’S KILLEREND-OF-SUMMER SALE! TAKE 25% OFF AT THE VF SHOPBS LEV
• 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 FAIRHOW FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE REALYEXCLIVE NEW DETAILS ABOUT MEGHAN MARKLE’S WEDDG DRSWHY THE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKGHERE’S WHAT WE NEED SEASON 3 OF AND JT LIKE THAT…THE BRIEF DEATH (AND SHORT REBIRTH) OF LIL TAYINSI ANDREW STT AND PL ML’S METAPHYSIL LOVE STORYFROM THE ARCHIVE: A FATHER’S ACUNT OF THE TRIAL OF HIS DGHTER’S KILLEREND-OF-SUMMER SALE! TAKE 25% OFF AT THE VF SHOPMOST POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT A SER SETBACKBY BS LEVMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLEGEIA REPUBLINS SAY THEY'LL MOVE TO REMOVE FULTON COUNTY DA FANI WILLIS FROM OFFICE WH NEW STATE LAWBY ERIC LUTZERIC LUTZ

CAN FLORIDA’S GAY TEACHERS SHOW PHOTOS? THE WHE HOE CLAIMED NOT.

Unr threat of havg their licens revoked, gay teachers have been forced to take down pictur of their spo om their sks and censor their classroom materials. ”— Whe Hoe prs secretary Kare Jean-Pierre, at the daily prs briefg, April 20Many rears ntacted The Fact Checker after Jean-Pierre, at the Whe Hoe lectern, lambasted an expansn of Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn Act, popularly known among crics as the “don’t say gay” law. That changed earlier this month, when his admistratn cid to impose such rtrictns on all public school stunts, cludg fourth through 12th gras, wh certa ’s dispute is Jean-Pierre’s claim that unr the law, gay teachers have been forced to take down pictur of their spo or loved on.

“There is no mer, for example, to the suggtn that the statute rtricts gay and transgenr teachers om ‘put[tg] a fay photo on their sk’ or ‘refer[rg] to themselv and their spoe (and their own children), ’” the filg said.

”Adari Payne, a seventh-gra teacher Wley Chapel, said he had to unrgo a week-long vtigatn after a parent plaed that his gay relatnship me up durg a math problem that volved a qutn about stunt asked Payne, 37, if he had any children. Another stunt terpted, referencg photos of Payne’s partner on the wall and suggtg was impossible bee he was gay.

I’M A GAY KRGARTEN TEACHER FLORIDA. THE ARE THE QUTNS I’M ASKG MYSELF.

As a krgarten teacher who is gay and has pictur of himself and his partner his classroom, I regularly answer qutns om my stunts like: “Mr.

Calls and emails were ma to my supertennt mandg my termatn, far-right news outlets began nng headl like “Gay krgarten teacher wants to talk to his kids about his love life, ” and the number of random-number phone lls to my personal cellphone creased twofold. And a key part of that tn is the necsary, valuable buildg block of muny is built the classroom, the level of engagement I see my stunts mak hard to believe they are only 5 and 6 years the Parental Rights Edutn law, which crics have lled the “Don’t Say Gay” law, ultimately eros that muny. RelatedRon DeSantis’ woke math sndal shows how he’s bee more dangero than TmpFlorida’s anti-gay bill is wrong.

” This fall is the first school year which teachers and school admistrators mt follow Florida’s HB 1557—lled the “Parental Rights Edutn” statute by lawmakers and dubbed the Don’t Say Gay law by crics—that banned 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 acrdance wh state standards.

LGBTQ TEACHERS STGGLE TO NAVIGATE FLORIDA'S SO-CALLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW

) “All we want as tors is to create a safe space for our stunts and teach them to rpect each other, ” says Brian Kerek, a gay high school math teacher Osceola County, Florida.

Cory Bernaert, a gay krgarten teacher Parrish, Florida, says his curriculum has never clud discsns of genr inty or sexual orientatn. ) “The fact that someone has to say to the teachers that you n have a picture of your spoe on your sk, shows the environment they’re havg to work , ” says McCracken, who is gay.

LGBTQ+ TEACHERS TOLD TO HI WHO THEY ARE AS DON’T SAY GAY GO TO EFFECT

Michael Woods, a gay high school special tn teacher Palm Beach County, says he terpreted Palm Beach’s school district’s guidance to mean that if a stunt tells him somethg about their genr or pronouns, he mt notify the kid’s parents. LGBTQ+ school staff Florida have been told to hi pictur of their same genr spoe and not wear rabows as ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law go to effect. LGBTQ+ teachers Florida said they’ve been told they mt hi their inti while at work so as not to vlate the state’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law.

Durg the meetg, OSPC attorneys advised prcipals across the school district on what would and wouldn’t be legal unr Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law, which is slated to take effect Friday (1 July). Another OCPS official said a separate nversatn that the district need to be ut the wake of the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law gog to effect until the state provid more clary on how the legislatn would be enforced. Florida ernor Ron DeSantis signed the state’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ legislatn to law March.

FLORIDA TEACHERS NAVIGATE THEIR FIRST YEAR UNR THE 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW

Robert Thollanr left the school after 11 years of workg Florida as a teacher and said the cint ma him feel like he “wasn’t tsted bee there’s somethg wrong” wh him for beg gay.

“It mak seem like beg gay is somethg vile or disturbg or disgtg when ’s scribed as makg children unfortable knowg that I’m married to a man, ” Thollanr said. Nilette Solomon, a teacher Miami-Da County, told the outlet that the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law would “erase” her as an “LGBTQ” teacher”.

One of the measur, the Parental Rights Edutn law — or what crics have lled the “Don’t Say Gay” law — bans stctn about sexual orientatn and genr inty “ krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards. “I’ve been extremely overwhelmed as a gay man who now is openly out, bee I have to be the advote, ” he said. “People know I’m a unn lear, and they know that I’m a gay man.

KARE JEAN-PIERRE REPEATS FALSE CLAIM GAY TEACHERS FLORIDA N’T HAVE SPOE PHOTOS ON SK

Whe Hoe prs secretary Kare Jean-Pierre on Thursday repeated the false claim that gay teachers Florida have been forced to take photos of their spo off their sks or risk losg their teachg license. Jean-Pierre’s remark me durg the daily Whe Hoe prs briefg, as she mented on Florida’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” law, which was expand on Wednday to enpass all public school gra levels the Sunshe State.

Unr threat of havg their licens revoked, gay teachers have been forced to take down pictur of their spo om their sks and censor their classroom materials, ” Jean-Pierre add.

Whe Hoe prs secretary Kare Jean-Pierre blasted Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law as “dystopian” on Imag. The false claim stems om ments ma durg a June 28, 2022, school board meetg Orange County, where several teachers spoke about their ncerns regardg the “Don’t Say Gay” law.

‘IT’S HAD A CHILLG EFFECT’: FLORIDA TEACHERS ANX ABOUT ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

DeSantis’ so-lled “Don’t Say Gay”. A district spokperson later flatly nied that gay teachers would be forced or even enuraged not to display pictur of their spoe the classroom. In a motn to dismiss the lawsu, the state argued that “there is no mer … to the suggtn that the statute rtricts gay and transgenr teachers om ‘put[tg] a fay photo on their sk’ or ‘refer[rg] to themselv and their spoe (and their own children).

TEACHERS TOLD TO REMOVE RABOWS, PHOTOS OF SAME-SEX SPO AS DESANTIS’ ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW GO INTO EFFECT

Michael Woods, a high school special tn teacher Palm Beach unty, Florida, wh 30 years of experience teachg and who grew up as a stunt the area who was bullied for beg gay, said he cried the night before this school year began Augt 2022 bee of anxiety related to Florida’s “don’t say gay” bill that went to effect July 2022. “As a gay teacher, as a queer male, ’s been paful for me, ’s been very paful and very upsettg, ” said Woods. “The bills are all based on false pretens, they’re li, they’re based on li, they make assumptns that somethg is happeng our schools area, that teachers are somehow doctratg our stunts, teachg them to be gay, or whatever the se may be, ” said Andrew Spar, print of the Florida Edutn add: “I thk the biggt thg gog to the school year is the unknown, bee this bill and the other bills that are out there, give parents the abily to brg plats agast teachers, brg lawsus agast school districts, and we jt don’t know how ’s gog to play out.

”Ron DeSantis, the ernor of Florida, signg the ‘don’t say gay’ bill March 2022. As Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn law — or what crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law — go to effect Friday, some of the state’s public school districts have begun rollg out new polici to lim LGBTQ issu and inti om beg discsed the Tuday night, the Leon County School Board unanimoly approved s “LGBTQ Inclive School Gui, ” which clus a provisn to alert parents if a stunt who is “open about their genr inty” is their child’s physil tn class or wh them on an overnight school trip.

Clifford / AP fileThe so-lled Don’t Say Gay law, HB 1557, bans “stctn” about sexual orientatn or genr inty “ krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards. ” A provisn the law also requir school staff members to alert parents about “cril cisns affectg a stunt’s mental, emotnal, or physil health or well-beg, ” which many advot have terpreted as a way to force tors to out their gay or trans stunts.

AS FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TAK EFFECT, SCHOOLS ROLL OUT LGBTQ RTRICTNS

They have also ntend that will not prohib teachers and stunts om talkg about their LGBTQ fai or bar classroom discsns about LGBTQ history, cludg events like the 2016 attack at the Pulse gay nightclub crics and legal experts have said the broad language of the law uld open school districts and teachers to lawsus om parents who believe any nversatn about LGBTQ people or issu is “not age appropriate.

FLORIDA TEACHERS GET NEW MARCHG ORRS AS “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW GO TO EFFECT, AND ’S NOT PRETTY

Carlos Smh, a Democrat who is gay and has been an outspoken cric of the new law, said he was “not surprised” that schools the state were announcg the polici and guil. “What’s happeng right now — wh the censorship of rabow flags and school districts preparg to basilly ph LGBTQ stunts and teachers to the closet — is exactly what we said would happen wh the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law.

"Members and supporters of the LGBTQ muny at the "Say Gay Anyway" rally Miami Beach, Fla., on March 13. Chandan Khanna / AFP via Getty Imag fileFive other stat — all of them the South — have enacted laws that lim stctn or discsns about LGBTQ people or issu school, and at least 32 others have proposed such measur this year, acrdg to acrdg to the Movement Advancement Project, an LGBTQ thk tank that has been trackg the strsed that the polici will have nsequenc for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer stunts, potg to the disproportnately high rat of suici attempts among the untry’s LGBTQ youths. ”In Palm Beach County, Woods, who is gay, said that after they received the qutnnaire om school officials to flag urse material or books wh LGBTQ referenc, many of his lleagu are nervo they’ll be reprimand if they miss somethg.

‘I DON’T WANT TO TALK TO THE GAY ONE’: LGBTQ TEACHERS SAY THEY ARE FIGHTG ERASURE THEIR OWN CLASSROOMS

Florida’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” law go to effect July 1, and fears about the law’s vague language appear to be fully jtified. Related: DeSantis prs secretary tweets vile take on ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill and the Inter jt n’t wh her. Subscribe to Queerty for a daily dose of #life #don'tsaygay #ronsantis stori and more.

“A lot of tst is given to teachers, and ma seem like I wasn’t tsted bee there’s somethg wrong wh me for beg gay, ” he said. “It mak seem like beg gay is somethg vile or disturbg or disgtg when ’s scribed as makg children unfortable knowg that I’m married to a man. ” While the Orlando parents did not succeed havg Thollanr discipled or oted, he and other LGBTQ teachers the state worry that newly signed state law — tled Parental Rights Edutn but dubbed by crics as the “Don’t Say Gay” law — will galvanize parents to take siar actn agast them.

ANALYSIS | CAN FLORIDA’S GAY TEACHERS SHOW PHOTOS? THE WHE HOE CLAIMED NOT.

Lawmakers who support the law have repeatedly strsed that would not prohib teachers and stunts om talkg about their LGBTQ fai or bar classroom discsns about LGBTQ history, cludg events like the 2016 attack at the Pulse nightclub, a gay club Orlando. They need tors that look and remble them, ” said Kerek, who is gay.

”“Teachers do not go out of their way to create the moments where we’re ‘doctratg’ stunts, ” said Woods, who is gay. A high school assistant prcipal, Cz has faced cricism om other school admistrators the unty for beg an out gay tor.

FLORIDA SCHOOL SYSTEM HAS CLOSED VTIGATN TO TEACHER WHO SHOWED DISNEY MOVIE WH GAY CHARACTER

But wasn’t until this school year that a parent me to her school’s office and said, referrg to Cz, “I don’t want to talk to the gay one. Florida’s HB 1557, lloquially known as the “Don’t Say Gay” law, which kickstarted a trend of attempted legislative bans on discsn of LGBTQ topics schools, was expand April to rtrict some discsns of genr inty and sexual orientatn public classrooms om krgarten to 12th gra.

RON DESANTIS’S “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW HAS ALREADY MA FLORIDA SCHOOLS DYSTOPIAN HELLSPWH THE ANTI-LGBTQ+ LAW OFFICIALLY EFFECT, TEACHERS ARE SRED TO WEAR RABOWS, HAVE PICTUR OF THEIR SAME-SEX SPO, AND SOME PLAC HAVE TO NOTIFY PARENTS UPON THE “TERMATN” OF AN “OPEN” LGBTQ+ STUNT THE CLASS.BY BS LEVJULY 1, 2022MIAMI, FLORIDA - APRIL 08: FLORIDA GOV. RON DESANTIS SPEAKS TO THE MEDIA ABOUT THE CISE DTRY DURG A PRS NFERENCE AT PORTMIAMI ON APRIL 08, 2021 MIAMI, FLORIDA. THE GOVERNOR ANNOUNCED THAT THE STATE IS SUG THE FERAL ERNMENT TO ALLOW CIS TO RUME FLORIDA. (PHOTO BY JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAG)JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEWHEN TO AMERI’S SCENT TO A DYSTOPIAN HELLSPE, MOST PEOPLE HAVE PROBABLY SPENT THE LAST SEVERAL WEEKS FOCED ON THGS LIKE THE ONGOG REVELATNS OM THE JANUARY 6 MTEE REGARDG DONALD TMP’S ATTEMPT TO OVERTURN MOCRACY, AND CISNS OM THE SUPREME COURT LG THAT THERE’S NO MORE SEPARATN OF CHURCH AND STATE, WOMEN DON’T HAVE RIGHTS, AND AL PANI N KILL ALL. (TO SAY NOTHG OF THE FACT THAT, NEXT TERM, THEY MAY MAKE LEGAL FOR REPUBLINS TO STEAL ELECTNS.) BUT ’S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT TMP AND THE HIGH URT’S CHRISTOFASCISTS AREN’T THE ONLY PEOPLE WE NEED TO WORRY ABOUT. THERE ARE ALSO ELECTED OFFICIALS LIKE RON DESANTIS, WHO HAS A NOT-SIGNIFINT CHANCE OF BEG PRINT 2024. LIKE TMP, THE FLORIDA ERNOR TAK IMMENSE PRI BEG A BULLY; HE BULLIED THE SPECIAL OLYMPICS, HE BULLIED DISNEY, HE BULLI ANYONE WHO DISAGRE WH HIM, AND THE WORDS OF ONE OF HIS LLEGE TEAMMAT TO THE NEW YORKER: “RON IS THE MOST SELFISH PERSON I HAVE EVER TERACTED WH. HE HAS ALWAYS LOVED EMBARRASSG AND HUIATG PEOPLE. I’M SPEAKG FOR OTHERS—HE WAS THE BIGGT DICK WE KNEW.”WHAT MIGHT THE UNTRY LOOK LIKE SHOULD DESANTIS ASCEND TO THE WHE HOE? IN A WORD: SRY. IN THREE WORDS: REALLY FUCKG SRY. IN 20 WORDS: IT’LL BE THE KD OF PLACE WHERE TEACHERS ARE WARNED NOT TO DISPLAY RABOW FLAGS FOR FEAR OF BEG PROSECUTED.Y, ON FRIDAY, DANTIS’S PARENTAL RIGHTS EDUTN ACT, A.K.A. THE “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW, WENT TO EFFECT FLORIDA, AND ’S HARD TO OVERSTATE HOW TERRIFYG THIS WHOLE THG IS. IN ADDN TO BANNG ANY TALK OF GENR INTY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATN KRGARTEN THROUGH THIRD GRA, ALSO PROHIBS SUCH DISCSNS ALL THE WAY THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL, SAYG THAT SUCH TOPICS NNOT BE DISCSED ANY GRA A MANNER THAT IS NOT “AGE-APPROPRIATE OR VELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE.” (NATURALLY, THE LAW DO NOT SPECIFY WHAT IS NSIRED “APPROPRIATE”; THAT FN MAY NOT E OM THE STATE’S DEPARTMENT OF EDUTN UNTIL NEXT SUMMER.) CRICS BELIEVE THE LAW WAS WRTEN AN TENTNALLY BROAD MANNER TO SRE SCHOOL DISTRICTS, WHICH PARENTS N SUE IF THEY BELIEVE THE MEASURE HAS BEEN VLATED. “WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE CULTURE OF FEAR THAT THIS BILL HAS CREATED AND THE CHILLG EFFECT, WE’RE TALKG ABOUT THE FACT THAT TORS AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE SRED TO APPROACH ANYTHG RELATED TO LGBTQ PEOPLE OR ISSU OUT OF FEAR OF LAWSUS AND PROFSNAL ,” FLORIDA REPRENTATIVE CARLOS GUILLERMO SMH TOLD THE HILL.FOR STANCE, THE ORANGE COUNTY CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOCIATN ACCED SCHOOL OFFICIALS THIS WEEK OF TELLG TEACHERS NOT TO WEAR CLOTHG WH RABOWS ON THEM AND TO GET RID OF “SAFE SPACE” STICKERS AND PHOTOS OF THEIR SAME-SEX SPO, ACRDG TO NBC NEWS. LAST MONTH, ACRDG TO PALM BEACH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL SPECIAL TN TEACHER MICHAEL WOODS, THE PALM BEACH COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT “SENT OUT A QUTNNAIRE ASKG S TEACHERS TO REVIEW ALL URSE MATERIAL AND FLAG ANY BOOKS WH REFERENC TO SEXUAL ORIENTATN, GENR INTY OR RACE.” (ACRDG TO WOODS, SEVERAL WEEKS PRR, THE DISTRICT REMOVED THE BOOKS I AM JAZZ AND CALL ME MAX, FOR SEEMGLY REFERENCG GENR INTY.) AND ON TUDAY, ACRDG TO NBC, THE LEON COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD APPROVED A “LGBTQ INCLIVE GUI,” WHICH CLUS A CLSE THAT SAYS PARENTS MT BE RMED IF A STUNT WHO IS “OPEN ABOUT THEIR GENR INTY” IS THEIR CHILD’S GYM CLASS OR WH THEM ON AN OVERNIGHT SCHOOL TRIP. “UPON NOTIFITN OR TERMATN OF A STUNT WHO IS OPEN ABOUT THEIR GENR INTY, PARENTS OF THE AFFECTED STUNTS WILL BE NOTIFIED OF REASONABLE ACMODATN OPTNS AVAILABLE,” THE GUIL STATE. “PARENTS OR STUNTS WHO HAVE NCERNS ABOUT ROOMG ASSIGNMENTS FOR THEIR STUNT’S UPG OVERNIGHT EVENT BASED ON RELIG OR PRIVACY NCERNS MAY REQUT AN ACMODATN.”MEANWHILE, AS NBC NOT, DESANTIS HAS SUGGTED THIS IS ONLY THE BEGNG, SAYG AN TERVIEW WH FOX NEWS APRIL THAT “THGS LIKE WOKE GENR IOLOGY HAVE NO PLACE THE SCHOOLS, PERD.” BRANDON WOLF, PRS SECRETARY FOR EQUALY FLORIDA—ONE OF THE GROUPS SUG THE DESANTIS ADMISTRATN OVER THE LAW—TOLD THE HILL: “WE’VE ALWAYS UNRSTOOD WHAT WE’RE UP AGAST THE STATE OF FLORIDA. WE KNOW THE LAWMAKERS, WE KNOW THE RIGHTWARD SHIFT THAT HAS HAPPENED UNR GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS.” HE ADD THAT HE FEARS THE MEASURE WILL ONLY CREASE ANTI-LGBTQ+ VLENCE, WHICH CREASED OM 2020 TO 2021 AND IS ON TRACK TO BE WORSE 2022, ACRDG TO THE ARMED CONFLICT LOTN & EVENT DATA PROJECT. “IT FEELS VERY OMO THAT A STATE THAT SAW THE ADLIT ATTACK ON LGBTQ PEOPLE THIS NATN’S HISTORY…THAT WE WOULD BE HAVG NVERSATNS ABOUT ERASG OUR HISTORY, OUR LIV, OUR LIVED EXPERIENC OM CLASSROOMS,” WOLF SAID.MEANWHILE, TEXAS…A GROUP OF “TORS” REPORTEDLY PROPOSED TO THE STATE’S BOARD OF TN THAT SLAVERY SHOULD BE LLED “VOLUNTARY RELOTN.” Y, REALLY! OPPOSN TO THE SUGGTED CHANGE, WHICH WOULD SORT OF BE LIKE LLG HLER’S SYSTEMIC MURR OF 6 LN JEWS “POPULATN DOWNSIZG,” APPARENTLY ME UP DURG A JUNE 15 MEETG, AT WHICH A DEMOCRAT WHO REPRENTS DALLAS AND FORT WORTH NOTED THAT THE NEW WORDG WOULD NOT BE A “FAIR REPRENTATN” OF THE SLAVE TRA. BOARD MEMBERS, ACRDG TO THE TEXAS TRIBUNE, HAVE ASKED THE GROUP “TO RENSIR THE PHRASG,” WRG: “FOR K–2, REFULLY EXAME THE LANGUAGE ED TO SCRIBE EVENTS, SPECIFILLY THE TERM ‘VOLUNTARY RELOTN.’” BEE APPARENTLY “ARE YOU FUCKG KIDDG ME?” OR “WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WH YOU?” IS NSIRED APPROPRIATE.WHILE MICHIGAN…TWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.MOST POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT A SER SETBACKBY BS LEVMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLEGEIA REPUBLINS SAY THEY'LL MOVE TO REMOVE FULTON COUNTY DA FANI WILLIS FROM OFFICE WH NEW STATE LAWBY ERIC LUTZWHEN “PRO-LIFE” MEANS LETTG PEOPLE YOU DON’T LIKE DIETWTER NTENTTHIS NTENT N ALSO BE VIEWED ON THE SE ORIGAT OM.ELSEWHERE!“I CANNOT THK OF MANY THGS MORE FRIGHTENG”: THE SUPREME COURT HAS DECLARED WAR ON GOVERNG (V.F.)E.P.A. 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And though he matas his optimism the classroom wh his young stunts, the realy of beg a gay teacher a polil climate that’s bee creasgly hostile toward LGBTQ people n be much more challengg, even dangero, he said. He’s psed lsons after overhearg a stunt e the term “gay” a pejorative way, takg time to addrs the stunt and their qutns about the word. Last year, after Florida troduced what crics lled s “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn, several other stat followed su and filed siar bills that affect whether teachers n e pronouns or nam stunts ask them to e.

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 FAIRHOW FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE REALYEXCLIVE NEW DETAILS ABOUT MEGHAN MARKLE’S WEDDG DRSWHY THE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKGHERE’S WHAT WE NEED SEASON 3 OF AND JT LIKE THAT…THE BRIEF DEATH (AND SHORT REBIRTH) OF LIL TAYINSI ANDREW STT AND PL ML’S METAPHYSIL LOVE STORYFROM THE ARCHIVE: A FATHER’S ACUNT OF THE TRIAL OF HIS DGHTER’S KILLEREND-OF-SUMMER SALE! TAKE 25% OFF AT THE VF SHOPMOST POPULARDONALD TMP’S PLAN TO GET REELECTED AND PARDON HIMSELF WAS JT DEALT A SER SETBACKBY BS LEVMSNBC IS HAVG ITS SUPER BOWL WH DONALD TMP’S INDICTMENTSBY CHARLOTTE KLEGEIA REPUBLINS SAY THEY'LL MOVE TO REMOVE FULTON COUNTY DA FANI WILLIS FROM OFFICE WH NEW STATE LAWBY ERIC LUTZERIC LUTZ

Many ment to thank her for her ndor or wonr how their high school years uld have been different havg an out gay teacher like her. NBC News reported on two teachers Florida and Kentucky, rpectively, the latter of whom was named Kentucky Teacher of the Year 2022, who qu their jobs after some parents and muny members cricized them for beg out gay men and sharg tails about their personal liv wh stunts.