Do Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill vlate the First Amendment? – The Hill

Contents:

• FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL WILL HURT TEENS LIKE ME
• MAHER REJECTS LIBERAL 'DON'T SAY GAY' UPROAR OVER FLORIDA BILL: MAYBE YOUNG KIDS SHOULDN'T THK ABOUT SEX
• AFTER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL PASSED, ANTI-LGBTQ 'GROOMG' RHETORIC SURGED 400% ONLE
• FACT CHECK: FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL DON’T MENTN ‘GAY’, WOULD APPLY TO ‘PRIMARY’ GRAS
• GOP STATE SENATOR NEW JERSEY TRODUC ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• DO THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL SAY THAT?
• DO FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL VLATE THE FIRST AMENDMENT?
• ALABAMA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL: WHAT WOULD DO; READ THE TEXT

FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL WILL HURT TEENS LIKE ME

Larks is a junr at Wter Park High School Wter Park, Fla., the print and a -founr of the school’s Queer Stunt Unn and one of the anizers of s Say Gay Anyway October, I attend a high school Halloween party. A group of guys om my school surround me and shouted homophobic slurs.

She told me that she had gone through somethg siar when she was my Tuday, the Florida Senate approved the Parental Rights Edutn bill, also known as the Don’t Say Gay bill.

MAHER REJECTS LIBERAL 'DON'T SAY GAY' UPROAR OVER FLORIDA BILL: MAYBE YOUNG KIDS SHOULDN'T THK ABOUT SEX

I remember steppg away and llg my bt iend at the time: “Max, I thk I am gay.

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” To them I would say that if we unrstand ourselv, and those around unrstand , so many liv will be Larks (@ProudTwkie) is a junr at Wter Park High School, the print and a -founr of the school’s Queer Stunt Unn and one of the anizers of s Say Gay Anyway Tim is mted to publishg a diversy of letters to the edor.

AFTER 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL PASSED, ANTI-LGBTQ 'GROOMG' RHETORIC SURGED 400% ONLE

A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 21 of the New York edn wh the headle: This ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Will Hurt Teenagers Like Me. "Real Time" host Bill Maher phed back at the liberal "Don't Say Gay" uproar of a Florida tn reform bill that's been nmned by Democrats and the media. AP, OTHER OUTLETS REPEAT LIBERAL ‘DON’T SAY GAY' TALKING POINT ON FLORIDA EDUCATION BILL AS LEGISLATION PASSES"It's not like you're not allowed to lerally not say gay, but they jt don't want teachers talkg about .

DESANTIS' ROAST OF HIS QUESTION ABOUT SO-CALLED ‘DON'T SAY GAY' BILL"That's a polil wner, " Bni said sarstilly.

(Associated Prs)The GOP-backed bill garnered natnal attentn for beg rid by progrsiv as beg anti-LGBTQ wh accatns that the bill forbids any discsn pertag to beg gay schools. DeSantis expected to signLeft-wg crics, cludg members of the media, have referred to the legislatn as the "Don't Say Gay" bill even though such language is absent om the bill self.

FACT CHECK: FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL DON’T MENTN ‘GAY’, WOULD APPLY TO ‘PRIMARY’ GRAS

This vote also marks the third time the GOP-ntrolled body has passed what crics dub the “Don’t Say Gay” provisn, which they say is both unnstutnal and harmful to LGBTQ Texans. Sarah Eckhardt, D-At, asked Creighton about different scenars that the “Don’t Say Gay” provisn uld affect.

For stance, she asked whether would ban gay-straight allianc. The send setback for this effort me as Senate Bill 1072, which pied SB 8’s “Don’t Say Gay” clse, also failed to pass out of s Hoe mtee by a key Saturday adle.

“It is unnscnable that lawmakers would attempt to sneak a ‘Don’t Say Gay/Transgenr’ requirement to a bill that was not at all crafted for this purpose and prevly received bipartisan support, ” Carisa Lopez, senr polil director of the Texas Freedom Network, said a May 18 prs release.

GOP STATE SENATOR NEW JERSEY TRODUC ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

Anti-LGBTQ hate surged onle followg the passage of a Florida law that lims classroom stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty, a new report particular surge volv rhetoric implyg that lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people are “groomg” children and clus such slurs as “groomer, ” “pedophile” and “predator” relatn to the LGBTQ muny.

The month after the Florida Senate passed the Parental Rights Edutn bill, or what crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, on March 8, tweets mentng the LGBTQ muny alongsi the slurs creased 406%, acrdg to the report, which was nducted by the LGBTQ advocy group Human Rights Campaign and the nonprof Center for Counterg Digal law, which took effect July 1, 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. In April, a gay uple said a man on an Amtrak tra lled them “rapists” and “pedophil” ont of their children.

DO THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL SAY THAT?

CLAIM: Conservative Florida legislators are targetg vulnerable gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and tersex children. The Bin Whe Hoe has attacked a Florida bill rtrictg the teachg of sexualy among young children that Democrats are referrg to as “Don’t Say Gay, ” but the bill do not refer to “gay” and only appli om krgarten through third gra.

The Whe Hoe specifilly referred to the legislatn as “Don’t Say Gay”:. In rponse to FL "Don't Say Gay" bills, "The Print wants #LGBTQI+ young people who may be feelg sred or alone to know that they are loved exactly for who they are, and that he won’t stop fightg for the protectns and safety they serve. But the legislatn that is g such a stir among Democrats and journalists do not mentn “gay” or any specific sexualy.

DO FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL VLATE THE FIRST AMENDMENT?

"Iger, the CEO of one of Florida's largt employers, also fend Disney's right to speak out last year agast a ntroversial state bill that limed classroom discsn of LGBTQ+ issu, dubbed "Don't Say Gay" by move by then-CEO Bob Chapek, who succeed Iger 2020 and rigned 2022 when Iger returned to the helm, kicked off the bter fd wh the ernor and his Republin alli. "The DeSantis mpaign rpond to Iger later Thursday by tweetg a vio clip of Disney executive Karey Burke speakg a 2022 pany-wi Zoom ll about LGBTQ reprentatn the pany's that clip scrib herself as a mother of two queer children and says, "We don't have enough leads and narrativ which gay characters jt get to be characters and not have to be about gay stori. Imag: Getty Imag/MG21/The Met Mm/Vogue Compose: Mark KellyOpponents ll Florida’s “don’t say gay” bill, and the polil brandg seems to have worked, given how the mastream prs lnred that charged phrase to a natnal rallyg cry.

ALABAMA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL: WHAT WOULD DO; READ THE TEXT

Qutns have been raised as to whether Florida’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill vlat the First Amendment rights of teachers and stunts public primary schools the state.

All ey will be on Florida Monday as the so-lled Don’t Say Gay bill go before the full state Senate for nsiratn.

But Calvert warned of a very likely “chillg effect, ” where teachers would be cled to censor themselv over fear of retributn om parents, who unr the bill would be granted greater thory to sue school districts believed to be vlatn of “Don’t Say Gay.