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• SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' L EXPAND THROUGH 12TH GRA FLORIDA
• CLASS ACTIVY: WAYS TO CIVILLY ENGAGE YOUR STUNTS ON FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW — AND OTHER NEWS FOR MARCH 31, 2022
• FLORIDA ADVANC "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL THAT WOULD BAR LGBTQ DISCSNS SCHOOLS
• FIVE THGS TO KNOW ABOUT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' GENR DISCSNS AT SCHOOLS BILL
• ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ EXTEND TO 12TH GRA NEW BOARD OF EDUTN RULE, WH VAGUE EXCEPTNS
• SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' L EXPAND THROUGH 12TH GRA FLORIDA
• HERE'S WHAT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL WOULD DO AND WHAT WOULDN'T DO
• DESANTIS TO BROAN SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TO 12TH GRA, AMID LIBRARY BOOK REMOVALS AND SCHOOL BOARD NFN
• FLORIDA BOARD VOT TO EXPAND ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW TO ALL GRAS AS STATE PASS 3 ANTI-TRANS BILLS
• ‘NO ONE FELT SAFE’: FLORIDA SCHOOLS, STUNTS FEEL EFFECTS OF SO-LLED ‘DON'T SAY GAY’ LAW

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. Coed by opponents as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, forbids stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty for krgarten through third gra. Who signed the so-lled ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill to law this week?

CLASS ACTIVY: WAYS TO CIVILLY ENGAGE YOUR STUNTS ON FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW — AND OTHER NEWS FOR MARCH 31, 2022

Florida legislators nsirg "Don't Say Gay" bill that would bar LGBTQ discsns schools. The state's Senate and Hoe have proposed the Parental Rights Edutn bills — monly referred to the "Don't Say Gay" bills by crics — which would apply to such topics primary gra levels, as well as s where the discsns are emed "not age-appropriate.

" Ock, the print of her schools' Gay-Straight Alliance, said she first me out as lbian when she was 11 years old, and that havg support om her seventh gra English teacher at that time helped her bee more vol and open about her inty.

A 2019 survey om The Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN) found that the school climate Florida is "not safe" for most LGBTQ stunts as is. Supporters gather for a Safe Schools South Florida & Friends rally to ph back agast the so-lled "Don't Say Gay" bill (HB 1557/SB 1834) at the Pri Center Wilton Manors on Feb. "It will stop teachers and schools om talkg to kids about LGBTQ issu and will stop them om talkg about gay issu among themselv.

FLORIDA ADVANC "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL THAT WOULD BAR LGBTQ DISCSNS SCHOOLS

Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill has been trendg everywhere. What do the 'Don't Say Gay' bill mean?

" The bill would also give parents the abily to sue schools if they believed the schools vlated any provisns of the verbiage reads as follows: Requir district school boards to adopt procr that port wh provisns of law for notifyg stunt's parent of specified rmatn; requir procr to rerce fundamental right of parents to make cisns regardg upbrgg & ntrol of their children; provis requirements for such procr, school districts, & personnel; requir DOE to review & update specified 't Say Gay bate:Don't say salad? How vegetarian school lunch got pulled to 'Don't Say Gay' bateDeSantis and other supporters of the 'Don't Say Gay' billSupporters say the Hoe bill empowers parents who serve to have a say what their children DeSantis signaled his support for the measure, sayg  was "entirely appropriate" for teachers and school admistrators to have nversatns wh stunts about their genr inty, sayg that, some schools, children are told "Don't worry, don't pick your genr yet.

'Hateful':Whe Hoe nounc Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' bill as 'hateful' after DeSantis backs Florida LGBTQ alli:'Don't Say Gay' bill rais ncerns among Florida LGBTQ muny and alliWhat crics are saygCrics worry that the measure will strip protectns om LGBTQ kids and have a chillg effect on tors. It's not actually named the 'Don't Say Gay' billThe bill is officially tled "Parental Rights Edutn, " (HB 1557). It was nicknamed 'Don't Say Gay' by crics as mov through the Florida Legislature.

FIVE THGS TO KNOW ABOUT FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' GENR DISCSNS AT SCHOOLS BILL

Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas already have siar laws on the books banng the discsn of sexual orientatn and genr inty public schools, acrdg to GLSEN, an LGBTQ advocy stat – California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illois, Nevada, New Jersey and Oregon – have laws that promote LGBTQ issu school the 'Don't Say Gay' bill pass and bee law? 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.

Crics dubbed the law “don’t say gay, ” argug wrongly silenc all mentns of LGBTQ people school and unfairly suggts teachers were actg appropriately. More than 25 people spoke at the board’s meetg, many nouncg the l as homophobic but others praisg them as an effort to keep appropriate subjects out of classrooms.

Crics of the le and the law say they are vague, unfairly suggt gay and transgenr people aim to sexualize children and make teachers uncerta about what they n say whout nng to trouble. They also said they make hard for gay teachers and for all teachers who want to be acceptg of LGBTQ stunts or children who live fai wh same-sex parents.

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

“It’s homophobic. Go to askgaybros.

r/askgaybros. Florida “Don’t say gay” law now for all ag up to 12th gra. 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.

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

” 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. Florida's board of tn is nsirg an expansn to a Parental Rights law crics ll "Don't Say Gay. Florida's board of tn is nsirg rtrictg stctn about genr inty and sexual orientatn for up to gra 12, effectively expandg a ntroversial tn law that Democrats and LGBTQ rights groups have rid as "Don't Say Gay.

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

Acrdg to the ernor's office, they have clud the memoir "Genr Queer, " "This Book Is Gay, " and "Flamer.

Last year DeSantis signed to law the state’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which prohibs discsns about genr inty and sexual orientatn among young children. The Tampa Pri was held the wake of the passage of Florida's ntroversial "Don't Say Gay" Bill. ”[ Mayor Adams fds wh Florida's Ron DeSantis over 'Don't Say Gay' law]Edutn Commissner Manny Diaz Jr., a DeSantis appotee, has downplayed the le, which was prevly slammed by Whe Hoe prs secretary Kare Jean-Pierre as “pletely, utterly wrong” and “part of a disturbg and dangero trend that we’re seeg across the natn of targetg LGBTQ people.

The monstratn at Palm Harbor Universy High was part of a movement across Florida, led by queer stunts prottg a bill they and other crics ll “Don’t Say Gay. He didn’t thk he’d get sp on or lled homophobic slurs. He didn’t thk a stunt would pull out a Tmp 2020 flag alongsi the gay and transgenr pri flags, or that someone would yell, “Kill ‘em all” over and that day early March, Weste experienced the first nsequenc of a bill that crics warned would lead to censorship of LGBTQ voic and emboln some to harass queer stunts, teachers, admistrators and their alli.

DESANTIS TO BROAN SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW TO 12TH GRA, AMID LIBRARY BOOK REMOVALS AND SCHOOL BOARD NFN

And while the bill targeted stctn younger gras, left tchall language that gay rights advot worried would be ed to ntrol classrooms up through high school. Lawmaker bate:Florida Legislature pass 'Don't Say Gay' bill, sends to Gov. DeSantis lls out Leon County as he signs what opponents ll 'Don't Say Gay' billHistoril ntext:Historians draw parallels between 'Don't Say Gay' legislatn and purge of gay teachers s ago‘Worst ’s ever been’:Culture wars got personal this legislative ssnThe bill wasn't ced as the reason for actn every se, but LGBTQ advot say the legislatn and s surroundg rhetoric has created a hostile environment ripe for the typ of attacks — even before the bill be law on Friday, along wh a slate of new laws cludg two more that target school curriculum.

" However, bill supporters have e unr fire for g gay stereotyp and doctratn schools to fend s March, Gov. Democratic legislators sought to clarify the bill's language and tent, but Republin lawmakers rejected a swath of bill’s Senate sponsor, Dennis Baxley, R-Ola, said durg bate that he was aimg to curb what he saw as doctratn schools — another false narrative ed by Florida lawmakers s ago the 1950s to out and fire gay and lbian teachers and llege profsors. Petocz, who is gay, was spend after givg out more than 200 Pri flags at his rally.

'Curly Hair':Pe View class print phemism for gay graduatn speechA uple months after the protts, Zanr Moricz, the first openly gay class print at Sarasota County’s Peview School, was told he uldn’t mentn his queer activism durg his graduatn speech. Petersburg two s ago after hearg that was an up-and-g gay-iendly cy.

FLORIDA BOARD VOT TO EXPAND ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW TO ALL GRAS AS STATE PASS 3 ANTI-TRANS BILLS

He's pecially ncerned for transgenr stunts like him, who are facg threats to their accs to genr-affirmg healthre and are left out of mpaigns like Don’t Say Gay, which refer to sexual orientatn but not genr inty.

A proposed State Board of Edutn le, schled for a vote next month, says teachers gras 4 to 12 “shall not tentnally provi classroom stctn” on eher topic, expandg the prohibn last year’s law that crics dubbed “don’t say gay.

Dozens of people spoke agast the le then, sayg unfairly attacked gay and transgenr people by suggtg they aim to sexualize children and would make hard for teachers who want to be acceptg of stunts who live fai wh same-sex parents. (Update: addg ment om Florida Edutn Department and tail about the law)Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn Law, popularly known by crics as the “don’t say gay” bill, went to effect on Friday, rtrictg what teachers n say about genr and sexual orientatn.

‘NO ONE FELT SAFE’: FLORIDA SCHOOLS, STUNTS FEEL EFFECTS OF SO-LLED ‘DON'T SAY GAY’ LAW

” – page 17“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). ” – page 17“For the same reason, the statute do not prohib terventn agast LGBTQ bullyg, participatn extracurricular activi (such as “Gay-Straight Allianc” or books fairs), and even after-hours tutorg, ECF 47 ¶¶ 8, 118–19, 121, 184, among many other exampl.