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• SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' L EXPAND THROUGH 12TH GRA FLORIDA
• FLORIDA EXPANDS GOV. RON DESANTIS' SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TO ALL GRA LEVELS
• FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' (HB1557) EXPAND TO ALL GRAS. EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW:
• FLORIDA'S SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' POLICY ULD BE EXPAND TO HIGH SCHOOL
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• WHAT'S THE SO-LLED DON'T SAY GAY BILL THAT ULD IMPACT THE WHOLE UNTRY
• FLORIDA BOARD APPROV EXPANSN OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BAN TO ALL SCHOOL GRAS
• ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ EXTEND TO 12TH GRA NEW BOARD OF EDUTN RULE, WH VAGUE EXCEPTNS
• FLORIDA HOE PASS ‘HORRIBLE EXPAND’ VERSN OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• UPDATE: 2,500 GEIANS HELP BLOCK ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL
• FLORIDA EXPANDS ‘DON’T SAY GAY'; HOE OKS ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS
• FLORIDA MOV TO EXPAND ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW G LEGISLATIVE SSN
• FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'
• WHAT A NATNAL 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD MEAN FOR TN
• THE WHE HOE IS SPREADG VILE LI ABOUT THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' L EXPAND THROUGH 12TH GRA FLORIDA

It looks like this le would make impossible to do much stctn at all, " Lra McGnis, of the LGBTQ advocy group PFLAG, prevly told ABC law was dubbed "Don't Say Gay" by crics for aimg to rtrict curriculum that clus history, lerature and more that touch on LGBTQ inti. Florida's Board of Edutn approved expandg the l of the so-lled "Don't Say Gay" law through 12th gra.

FLORIDA EXPANDS GOV. RON DESANTIS' SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TO ALL GRA LEVELS

(AP) — The Florida Board of Edutn on Wednday approved a ban on classroom stctn about sexual orientatn and genr inty all gras, expandg the law crics ll "Don't Say Gay" at the requt of Gov. 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.

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

Edorial:Whether 'Don't Say Gay' or 'Sue the Schools', state should scrap bad lawmakgHow has the bill impacted Florida schools? "The law was dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" law by crics, who said aimed to shun LGBTQ inti om classroom ntent and McGnis of the LGBTQ advocy group PFLAG told ABC News that "everyone has a sexual orientatn and a 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 SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' POLICY ULD BE EXPAND TO HIGH SCHOOL

” 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. 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.

Demonstrators gather on the steps of the Florida Historic Capol Mm ont of the Florida State Capol March Tallahassee, Fla, prottg what opponents ll the "Don't Say Gay" bill. Hoe Republins have troduced legislatn that some crics are scribg as a natnal "Don't Say Gay" bill – spired by the ntroversial Florida law that bans stctn on genr inty and sexual orientatn krgarten through third gra class.

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

Crics of the measure dubbed the Florida law "Don't Say Gay" and argue that s tent is to margalize LGBTQ people and their fai.

A feral 'Don't Say Gay or Trans' bill... Activist Er Reed, who tracks anti-transgenr legislatn, argu that the parison to a "Don't Say Gay" bill mimiz the potential effects of this proposed legislatn. "Don't Say Gay/Trans was foced on 'classroom stctn' which was bad enough, " she wrote on Twter.

Florida’s board of tn has approved the expansn of the state’s so-lled “don’t say gay” bill, which now prohibs discsns of sexual orientatn and genr inty at school across all gra levels. ”As a rult of DeSantis’s “don’t say gay” bill and his culture war agast “wokens”, the ernor, who is wily expected to lnch his 2024 printial n, has found himself gog head to head wh Disney, one of the state’s largt private month, Disney phed back agast DeSantis’s crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights by announcg s plans to host a major LGBTQ+ nference at Walt Disney World Orlando. The le effectively expands Florida’s “Parental Rights Edutn” law, a hot-button measure that passed last year and was labeled by crics as the “don’t say gay” bill.

WHAT'S THE SO-LLED DON'T SAY GAY BILL THAT ULD IMPACT THE WHOLE UNTRY

Republin lawmakers Florida passed a bill on Friday that would further rtrict discsns about genr inty and sexual orientatn throughout middle school, what crics are llg a “horrible expand” versn of the state’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” Bill 1609 would ban classroom discsns on LGBTQ issu until 9th gra, and also lim discsns throughout high school classrooms if the state emed such discsns “appropriate. Crics say the bill is an extensn of Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn bill — monly known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — which prohibs discsns about genr inty and sexual orientatn primary school classrooms and was signed to law by Gov.

Bee SB 613, the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, was not voted on by the full Senate, is ad for the year! Ron DeSantis add more ws to his agenda targetg the LGBTQ+ muny as a state board approved an expansn of what crics ll the “Don’t Say Gay” law Wednday, and the Hoe passed bills on genr-transn treatments, bathroom e and keepg children out of drag Board of Edutn approved a ban on classroom stctn about sexual orientatn and genr inty all gras, expandg the law that bans those lson up to gra 3 at the requt of DeSantis as he gears up for an expected printial le change would ban lsons on sexual orientatn and genr inty om gras 4-12, unls required by existg state standards or as part of reproductive health stctn that stunts n choose not to take.

The entertament giant publicly opposed the “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn last year, and, as punishment, DeSantis phed lawmakers to give him ntrol of a self-erng district that Disney overse s theme park a set of new DeSantis appote uld assume ntrol of the district, Disney’s board passed rtrictive venants that strip the g members of most of their powers, bluntg the ernor’s retaliatn. It also expands bans on sexual orientatn and genr inty topics schools om krgarten to third gra, as set up by Florida’s “Parental Rights Edutn/Don’t Say Gay” bill to pre-K through eighth gra stead. Anrson’s proposal explicly stat that the newly filed legislatn is to build upon 2021’s Parents’ Bill of Rights, which was the precursor to the ntroversial HB 1557, the Parental Rights Edutn that drew attentn as the so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

FLORIDA BOARD APPROV EXPANSN OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BAN TO ALL SCHOOL GRAS

In rponse to the bill, a spokman for Equaly Florida said was an expansn of last year’s harmful “Don’t Say Gay” law.

The bill, which some opponents have lled "Don't Say Gay, " was signed by DeSantis on Monday.

‘DON’T SAY GAY’ EXTEND TO 12TH GRA NEW BOARD OF EDUTN RULE, WH VAGUE EXCEPTNS

The "Don't Say Gay" moniker om crics of the measure who blast this ia and sist this policy will hurt LGBTQ children.

"Florida's HB 1557, also known as the 'Don't Say Gay' bill, should never have passed and should never have been signed to law, " the statement read. Parents would be allowed to file a lawsu agast any public or private enty that feral funds to display or facilate ntent featurg LGBTQ an agency or anizatn vlat the rtrictns more than once a five-year perd, uld lose accs to feral funds for three years, acrdg to the bill specifilly mentns drag shows, which have been the recent target of cricism by nservative groups advotg for laws such as this prott ont of Florida State Senator Ileana Garcia's office after the passage of the Parental Rights Edutn bill, dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by LGBTQ activists Miami, March 09, Raedle/Getty Imag, FILEProposed bill prompts cricismThe bill sparked immediate backlash om some LGBTQ people and activists across the untry, who say this legislatn misreprents the inti as herently sexual, shameful or assert that this kd of legislatn will silence and harm LGBTQ teachers and stunts, while stigmatizg the muny and threateng ferally fund programs on cln.

FLORIDA HOE PASS ‘HORRIBLE EXPAND’ VERSN OF ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

"A feral 'Don't Say Gay or Trans' bill – moled after the ntroversial discrimatory law Florida and aimg to drive LGBTQ+ fai and teachers out of the tn system – is their latt cel attempt to stigmatize and margalize the muny, not an attempt to solve actual problems but only to rile up their extremist base, " said David Stacy, the ernment affairs director of LGBTQ advocy group Human Rights Campaign.

Supporters rally to ph back agast the so-lled "Don't Say Gay" at the Pri Center Wilton Manors, Fla., Feb.

Several stat have followed Florida's lead, cludg Alabama, which has implemented so-lled "Don't Say Gay" polici of s own.

UPDATE: 2,500 GEIANS HELP BLOCK ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL

Psaki said Print Bin is as horrified as she is about the legislatn, which Democrats ll the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

Takg his cue, every idt Democrat, woke rporate and Hollywood celebry has malicly characterized the bill as “anti-gay. Florida Senate Democrats lked arms and marched around nonsensilly chantg, “Gay, gay, gay, gay, gay!

” Activist groups ran TV ads of celebri shoutg “Gay!

FLORIDA EXPANDS ‘DON’T SAY GAY'; HOE OKS ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS

Mark Hal, of Le Skywalker fame, tweeted the word “gay” dozens of tim. Thanks for rmg me of the plat om the German people- I had no tentn of vlatg the Network Enforcement Act & am relieved to learn that tweetg the word "gay" 69 tim wh a rabow emoji is NOT subject to removal unr the @Twter l or German law ❤️-mh — Mark Hal (@HalHimself) March 9, 2022. No one is banned om sayg “gay.

” he barked at a reporter askg about “Don’t Say Gay” on Monday.

FLORIDA MOV TO EXPAND ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW G LEGISLATIVE SSN

FLORIDA'S ERNOR SIGNS NTROVERSIAL LAW OPPONENTS DUBBED 'DON'T SAY GAY'

WHAT A NATNAL 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD MEAN FOR TN

THE WHE HOE IS SPREADG VILE LI ABOUT THE ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL