Indiana lawmakers on Monday nsired their own versn of a “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
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- INDIANA 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL PIVOTS TO KIDS' GENR INTY
- INDIANA ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ PASS OUT OF MTEE
- HB 1608 STARTED AS A 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL. NOW TARGETS TRANSGENR NAM, PRONOUNS
- INDIANA ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL HEADS TO ERNOR’S SK
- IT’S NOT JT FLORIDA. 15 OTHER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’-STYLE BILLS ARE CROPPG UP NATNWI
- DON'T SAY GAY BILL PASS COMMTEE
- INDIANA ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILLS WOULD BAN TEACHG OF GENR INTY, SEXUAL ORIENTATN
- ACLU FIL LAWSU TO PREVENT INDIANA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW OM TAKG EFFECT
- INDIANA LAWMAKERS TO DISCS BILL SIAR TO FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW MONDAY
- NOT JT FLORIDA. MORE THAN A DOZEN STAT PROPOSE SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILLS
INDIANA 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL PIVOTS TO KIDS' GENR INTY
The so-lled “Don't Say Gay” bill drew tense natnal scty om those who argue margaliz LGBTQ people. INDIANAPOLIS (WNDU) - Indiana lawmakers on Monday nsired their own versn of a “Don’t Say Gay” Bill 1608 has been intified as one of 22 piec of legislatn emed to be trimental to the LGBTQ velopment drew a large and loud crowd of protters to the Indiana Statehoe.
INDIANA ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ PASS OUT OF MTEE
Be stcted or told, that hey, gay bi, trans people, we exist. Moled on siar legislatn passed Florida last year, which opponents dubbed the "don't say gay" bill, HB 1608 drew strong opposn om the LGBTQ muny and s alli, who were ncerned that the measure would be harmful for LGBTQ HB 1608 was heard Hoe Edutn Commtee on Monday, Feb.
HB 1608 STARTED AS A 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL. NOW TARGETS TRANSGENR NAM, PRONOUNS
20, took on a new was origally Indiana's 'don't say gay' bill? Hoe Bill 1608 proposed that employe, school staff members or third party vendors "may not provi any stctn to a stunt krgarten through gra 3" wh a goal to rm stunts about the followg:Genr fluidyGenr rolGenr stereotypGenr intyGenr exprsnSexual orientatnIndiana General Assembly:Lawmakers to nsir 'don't say gay' legislatn 2023How did HB 1608 change to clu transgenr pronouns and nam Indiana schools?
20, the Indiana Hoe mtee on tn sentially killed the "don't say gay" legislatn and stead passed a measure the bill that would prohib schools om llg stunts by nam or pronouns "nsistent" wh their sex assigned at birth whout wrten permissn om parents. Indiana HB 1608:Indiana 'don't say gay' bill changed to target transgenr youthIt also said that the school mt notify parents if a stunt requts a name or pronoun nsistent wh their sex. The bill has been pared to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” measure, wh opponents referrg to as a part of the “slate of hate” – a group of anti-LGBTQ+ bills filed by lawmakers durg this legislative ssn.
INDIANA ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL HEADS TO ERNOR’S SK
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Sce Florida’s Hoe mtee passed the Parental Rights Edutn bill — known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — January, a natnal spotlight has turned on the state as propos banng school stctn on LGBTQ+ people and issu.
Yet Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill is jt one part of a natnwi trend. A Hoe bill Tennsee would ban textbook and stctnal materials that “promote, normalize, support, or addrs lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr (LGBT) liftyl” K-12 schools.
IT’S NOT JT FLORIDA. 15 OTHER ‘DON’T SAY GAY’-STYLE BILLS ARE CROPPG UP NATNWI
Another, Kansas, seeks to amend the state’s obsceny law to make g classroom materials pictg “homosexualy” a Class B mismeanor. Two bills, SB 1142 and SB 1654, would prohib librarians and teachers om distributg materials on or outright discsg “any form of non-procreative sex, ” genr inty and “lbian, gay, bisexual, or transgenr issu.
Still, advot worry that the passage of legislatn like “Don’t Say Gay” will e at the expense of LGBTQ+ youth particular, who are already at greater risk of mental health issu, self-harm and suici.
LGBTQ+ GROUP SLAMS FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL IN NEW AD. HOUSE COMMITTEE IN FLORIDA PASSES ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL. “The Indiana Hoe Edutn Commtee jt passed HB 1608, a horrific 'Don’t Say Gay' bill.
DON'T SAY GAY BILL PASS COMMTEE
Bob Behng, chair of the Hoe Edutn Commtee, said December that Indiana might follow the lead of Florida, which last year enacted siar legislatn lled the Parental Rights Edutn Act that’s equently referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay” law.
Davis has also troduced one of the bills this year that seeks to ban medil profsnals om providg genr transng or puberty-blockg procr to bill om Davis that’s siar to the “Don’t Say Gay” law appears to be missg some ponents of the Florida statute, cludg the optn for parents to sue a school district for vlatg the law. ACLU of Indiana has filed a lawsu to halt Indiana’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” law. It’s siar to Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn statute that gaed natnal attentn last year as the “Don’t Say Gay” Rep.
INDIANA ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILLS WOULD BAN TEACHG OF GENR INTY, SEXUAL ORIENTATN
Across the Uned Stat, at least a dozen stat are nsirg new legislatn that several ways will mirror Florida's new ntroversial law, referred to by some opponents as "Don't Say Gay. "The stutnalizatn of the bills is an overt form of stctural transphobia and homophobia, and go agast all public health evince creatg a safe and supportive environment for transgenr, nonbary, queer, gay and lbian youths and teachers to thrive, " Arjee Rtar, assistant profsor of epimlogy at the Universy of Washgton, told NPR.
Rtar, a social epimlogist and health equy advote, said the ntroversial bills will lim all youths to live to their fullt potential, addg "there should be no room for transphobia and homophobia — pecially the classroom.
" Tennsee's HB 800 bans books and stctnal materials "that promote, normalize, support, or addrs lbian, gay, bi-sexual, or transgenr issu or liftyle. Two years after Arizona lawmakers repealed a law barrg any stctn on HIV or AIDS that that "promot a homosexual liftyle, " they are close to enactg a broad remake of the state's sex tn laws wh a particular foc on LGBTQ issu. "Florida may be the first this wave, but there have been other laws the past that were lled 'no promo homo' laws, which forbid sayg posive thgs about lbian, gay, bisexual, and queer people classrooms, " Simmons told NPR.
ACLU FIL LAWSU TO PREVENT INDIANA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW OM TAKG EFFECT
New York Cy is lnchg a digal billboard mpaign, supportg LGBTQ visibily that will be displayed five major markets Florida for eight weeks, to lure Floridians unhappy wh their state's "Don't Say Gay" law to the Big Apple, Adams announced.