What Florida's 'Don’t Say Gay' bill actually says

Contents:

• A FLORIDA LEGISLATOR WHDREW HIS AMENDMENT TO THE 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL THAT WOULD REQUIRE SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO OUT STUNTS WH 6 WEEKS
• 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 REPUBLIN WHDRAWS ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ AMENDMENT THAT WOULD FORCIBLY OUT STUNTS
• WHAT THE FERAL ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL ACTUALLY SAYS
• AMENDMENT THAT ULD OUT LGBTQ STUNTS WHDRAWN OM FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
• WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?
• LAWMAKER WHDRAWS AMENDMENT TO 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL ALLOWG SCHOOL OFFICIALS TO DISCLOSE CHILD'S SEXUALY TO PARENTS
• FLORIDA LT. GOV. SAYS 'GOOD LUCK' TO ATTEMPTS TO REPEAL SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW

A FLORIDA LEGISLATOR WHDREW HIS AMENDMENT TO THE 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL THAT WOULD REQUIRE SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO OUT STUNTS WH 6 WEEKS

An amendment to Florida's "Don't Say Gay" bill would have forced schools to out gay and trans children. A now-whdrawn amendment to Florida's "Parental Rights Edutn" bill — also dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill — would have required schools to tell a stunt's parents if their child wasn't straight wh six weeks of learng that bill ially received phback for banng school districts om enuragg "discsn about sexual orientatn or genr inty primary gra levels or a manner that is not age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts, " though did not explicly say what was fed as "age-appropriate" or "velopmentally appropriate.

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. ” 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.

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

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.

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

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. " 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.

FLORIDA REPUBLIN WHDRAWS ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ AMENDMENT THAT WOULD FORCIBLY OUT STUNTS

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. A Republin legislator Florida has whdrawn an amendment to his so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill that would require schools to disclose whether a child is LGBT+ to their parents wh six weeks of learng whether they are not straight, and appeared to remove protectns for stunts who would have potentially been subject to abe, abandonment or neglect by their Rep Joe Hardg proposed the amendment on Friday and removed as state legislators prepared to bate Hoe Bill 1557 on Tuday, amid ternatnal outrage and warngs om LGBT+ advot that the legislatn uld endanger vulnerable wily cricised legislatn propos prohibg schools om enuragg “classroom discsn about sexual orientatn or genr inty primary gra levels or a manner that is not age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts” bill passed a Florida state legislative mtee on 20 January. Florida Democratic ngrswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said that “those who are now nsirg whether to vote for this hate-driven bill mt reckon wh an all-but-certa realy: If this ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill be law, s isolatg impacts will ensure that even more vulnerable LGBTQ+ children will suffer, and some will die.

A feral versn of Florida’s ntroversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill troduced last month would ban the e of feral rourc to teach stunts about sexual activy and sexual orientatn, genr inty, and dysphoria or ’s highly unlikely that the bill, formally tled the “Stop the Sexualizatn of Children Act, ” will be passed to law while Democrats ntrol the Hoe and Senate. Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law, officially known as the Parental Rights Edutn law, is the most wily known example of that legislative genre and has spired pyt bills across the untry.

WHAT THE FERAL ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL ACTUALLY SAYS

Its crics dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” bee of s anti-LGBTQ tent, which was ma evint by statements state lawmakers ma when they were troducg the bill. The amendment of Florida's ntroversial "Don't Say Gay" bill currently the legislature that uld forcibly out LGBTQ stunts has been whdrawn.

— The amendment of Florida's ntroversial "Don't Say Gay" bill currently the legislature that uld forcibly out LGBTQ stunts has been amendment would have required teachers or the prcipal to disclose to parents wh a 6-week span of time if their child said anythg about intifyg as LGBTQ. Floor bate on the bill is expected to start later read the bill s entirety, click advot have fought back agast what they ll the "Don’t Say Gay" bill at the state Capol, wh protters llg "dangero" and "bigoted. PREVIOUS COVERAGE:LGBTQ advot fight 'Don't Say Gay' bill ahead of Thursday mtee hearg'Don't Say Gay' bill clears first Florida Senate hurdle"This is outrageo panrg wh real-world nsequenc, " said Jon Mrer wh LGBTQ civil rights group Equaly effort as GOP lawmakers ntue to advance the policy which bans discsn of sexual orientatn or genr inty elementary classrooms.

AMENDMENT THAT ULD OUT LGBTQ STUNTS WHDRAWN OM FLORIDA'S 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL

Republins have said the bill protects parents' rights and keeps them charge of a stunt's tn, rerds and well-beg while at "Don’t Say Gay" bill was jt one of several polici opponents were labelg as "censorship" legislatn unr nsiratn this year. Today, we have an analysis of a piece of tn legislatn Florida that crics have referred to as the “Don’t Say Gay” we have news of our own: We’re makg some chang to the Edutn Briefg.

WHAT DO ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ ACTUALLY SAY?

See below for Asenc-Rhe/Tampa Bay Tim, via Associated PrsA close read of ‘Don’t Say Gay’Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida is expected to sign Hoe Bill 1557, a proposed law that supporters ll the “Parental Rights Edutn” bill and opponents refer to as the “Don’t Say Gay” lleague Dana Goldste has done a close readg of the bill self, which is about much more than gay rights.

Sentence has earned the bill the “Don’t Say Gay” nickname:L 97-101: Classroom stctn by school personnel or third parti on sexual orientatn or genr inty may not occur krgarten through gra 3 or a manner that is not age appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state impact is clear enough: Instctn on genr and sexualy would be nstraed all gras. That uld disurage a teacher om speakg about gay fai wh the whole class, even if some stunts have gay bill also targets mental health and unselg servic — a place where stunts often have difficult nversatns about genr inty and sexualy, pecially if they stggle to talk about those nversatns at as Florida revis s school unselg standards, adopted 2010, which affirm genr and sexual diversy unselg. STATEWIDE — Lawmakers have filed more than a dozen amendments to the so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill that is workg s way through the Florida Legislature.

LAWMAKER WHDRAWS AMENDMENT TO 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL ALLOWG SCHOOL OFFICIALS TO DISCLOSE CHILD'S SEXUALY TO PARENTS

Supporters of the "Don't Say Gay" bill say would prohib anized discsn of sexual orientatn or genr inty among stunts. RELATED: Advot worry 'Don't Say Gay' bill uld hurt LGBTQ stunts.

FLORIDA LT. GOV. SAYS 'GOOD LUCK' TO ATTEMPTS TO REPEAL SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' LAW

Says 'good luck' to attempts to repeal so-lled 'Don't Say Gay' law. They ll the "Don't Say Gay" law, and gay rights groups are now sug Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to block .