More than a dozen stat propose so-lled 'Don't Say Gay' bills : NPR

Contents:

• GOP LAWMAKERS TRODUCE VERSN OF 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL OH
• OH LAWMAKERS TRODUCE BILL SIAR TO FLORIDA'S "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL THAT ALSO TARGETS "DIVISIVE" TEACHGS ABOUT RACE
• NEW OH HOE BILL BLENDS ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ WH RTRICTNS ON RACISM TN: CAPOL LETTER
• IT’S NOT “DON’T SAY GAY” OH: IT’S “TRANS BAN”
• OH’S 'DON’T SAY GAY' BILL AND THE STATE'S BS
• NOT JT FLORIDA. MORE THAN A DOZEN STAT PROPOSE SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILLS
• OH REPUBLINS PROPOSE THEIR OWN “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL, WH A SI OF CRIL RACE THEORY HYSTERIAOH REPUBLINS ALSO WANT TO BAN TALK OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY GRA SCHOOL.BY CALEB ERMAAPRIL 6, 2022TRANSGENR RIGHTS ADVOT STAND OUTSI OF THE OH STATEHOE ON JUNE 24, 2021BY STEPHEN ZENNER/SOPA IMAG/LIGHTROCKETSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEFLORIDA’S SO-LLED “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW IS SEEMGLY SPIRG NSERVATIV ACROSS THE NATN; REPUBLINS OH TRODUCED A BILL MONDAY THAT MIRRORS FLORIDA’S BAN ON CLASSROOM DISCSN OF GENR INTY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATN, AND TO ADD THEIR OWN TWIST, THE OH BILL CLUS A SPLASH OF CRIL RACE THEORY HYSTERIA AS WELL. THE BILL WOULD BAN OH PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS OM G “ANY CURRICULUM OR STCTNAL MATERIALS ON SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY” KRGARTEN THROUGH THIRD GRA. IT WOULD ALSO PROHIB TEACHERS OF FOURTH- TO 12TH-GRA STUNTS OM DISCSG “SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY ANY MANNER THAT IS NOT AGE-APPROPRIATE OR VELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE FOR STUNTS ACRDANCE WH STATE STANDARDS.” AND SHOEHORNED TO THIS ANTI-LGBTQ+ BILL IS A BAN ON ALL MATERIALS THAT DISCS “CRIL RACE THEORY,” “TERSECTNAL THEORY,” AND “HERED RACIAL GUILT,” (SPECIFILLY CG NIKOLE HANNAH-JON’S 1619 PROJECT FOR THE NEW YORK TIM) AND A TCHALL CLSE THAT WOULD FORBID THE TEACHG OF ANY “NCEPT THAT THE STATE BOARD OF TN F AS DIVISIVE OR HERENTLY RACIST.”“THEY PUT TEACHERS THE IMPOSSIBLE POSN OF NSTANTLY REGULATG THEIR WORDS AND ACTNS,” CHRISTA COLLS, OH STATE BOARD OF TN MEMBER, TELLS VANY FAIR, ADDG THAT THE BILL IS AN “OUTRIGHT BANNG OF DIVERSY” OH PUBLIC SCHOOLS. “STUNTS OFTEN TURN TO THEIR TEACHERS AND SCHOOL UNSELORS FOR SUPPORT, PECIALLY WHEN EXPLORG ISSU OF SELF-INTY,” SHE SAYS. “IN MY OPN, THIS IS THE WORST POSSIBLE OUTE FOR LGBTQ+ CHILDREN SPECIFILLY: HAVG NO ONE TO TURN TO WHEN THEY NEED A TSTED ADULT.”THE BILL’S SPONSOR, OH STATE REPRENTATIVE MIKE LOYCHIK, CLAIMS THAT PROMOT THE E OF “UNBIASED AND AGE-APPROPRIATE” CURRICULUM, WHILE SPONSOR JEAN SCHMIDT ADDS THAT OFFERS PARENTS “A SAY WHAT IS TGHT TO THEIR CHILDREN”—A JTIFITN REPUBLINS HAVE ALSO ED FENSE OF FLORIDA’S LAW. THE PROPOSAL AS REPUBLINS NATNWI HAVE ACCELERATED AN ANTI-LGBTQ+ AGENDA AT THE STATE LEVEL, PHG LAWS THAT OFTEN TARGET KIDS. OTHER STAT HAVE BANNED TRANSGENR KIDS OM PARTICIPATG SPORTS TEAMS THAT ALIGN WH THEIR GENR INTI. OH HOE MORY LEAR ALLISON RSO, A DEMOCRAT, NMNED OH REPUBLINS’ BILL AS A “DISGTG” ATTEMPT TO “[LEGIMIZE] BIGOTRY” A TUDAY STATEMENT. “THIS TO ME SPEAKS TO THE EXTREMISM THAT NTU TO N RAMPANT THIS STATEHOE, AND WE NNOT NTUE TO GROW AS A STATE ENOMILLY, DO RIGHT BY OUR OH FAI, IF WE DON’T EMBRACE OUR DIVERSY AND MAKE SURE THAT THIS STATE IS CLIVE FOR ALL OHANS,” RSO SAID. (LOYCHIK’S AND SCHMIDT’S OFFIC DID NOT IMMEDIATELY RPOND WHEN NTACTED FOR MENT.)CRICS ARE PARTICULARLY WARY OF THE BILL’S VAGUE LANGUAGE. THE BILL DO NOT TAIL WHAT KD OF MATERIALS QUALIFY AS “AGE-” AND “VELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE.” COLLS SAYS THE “NFG AND AMBIGUO” LANGUAGE PLAC TEACHERS AN IMPOSSIBLE BD. “WHO GETS TO FE WHAT IS AGE-APPROPRIATE?” SHE ASKS. THE CURRENT PROPOSAL GRANTS MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC OSTENSIBLY EE RE OVER WHAT NSTUT SUCH VLATNS, AS THEY ULD FILE PLATS AGAST SCHOOL EMPLOYE WHOM THEY BELIEVE VLATED THE LAW. SCHOOL OFFICIALS WOULD THEN FACE A HEARG OVER THE ALLEGATNS. PENALTI WOULD CLU LICENSE SPENSNS, OR SCHOOL FUNDG CUTS.STT DIMRO, PRINT OF THE OH EDUTN ASSOCIATN (OEA), A LOBBYG GROUP FOR OH TORS, HAS WARNED THAT THE BILL WOULD “PUT BOTH TEACHERS AND PARENTS A REALLY TOUGH SPOT.” DIMRO QUTNED IF WOULD EVEN ALLOW A TEACHER TO MENTN THE FAY OF A STUNT WH GAY PARENTS AND ASKED IF A TEACHER ULD BE FIRED IF THAT STUNT TOOK PART A CLASSROOM FAY-TREE PROJECT. “FUNDAMENTALLY THE BILLS ARE CYNIL ATTEMPTS TO E RACE AND NOW SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY AS WEDGE ISSU TO E DIVISN AND SOW NFLICT AND ULTIMATELY TO SRE CHEAP POLIL POTS,” DIMRO TOLD THE COLUMB DISPATCH. “LEGISLATORS THAT ARE PROMOTG THE KDS OF AGENDAS OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELV.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR       — ​​FOX NEWS HOSTS ENTERTAED PUT-FRIENDLY TALKG POTS. THEN THEIR COLLEAGU WERE KILLED UKRAE— THE LIFE AND CONFSNS OF MOB CHEF DAVID RUGGER— KREML KEEPS BLURRG ITS RED LE AROUND NUCLEAR WAR— CALLS FOR RECALS, RIGNATNS, AND EVEN IMPEACHMENT: DEMOCRATS ESLATE ETHICS CAMPAIGN AROUND CLARENCE THOMAS— TWO UKRAIAN AP JOURNALISTS CAPTURE THE MOST DEVASTATG MOMENTS OF WAR— TMP: IF I WAS PRINT I’D THREATEN TO DROP A NUCLEAR BOMB ON RSIA— WHAT WILL DEMS DO IF BIN DON’T RUN?— ORGI, BEHEADGS, JEWISH SPACE LASERS: EVERYTHG KEV MCCARTHY HAS HAD TO “SPEAK” TO REPUBLIN LAWMAKERS ABOUT— THE TTH BEHD REPUBLINS’ VILE QUTNG OF KETANJI BROWN JACKSON— FROM THE ARCHIVE: MOLLY BLOOM’S HOE OF CARDS— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.MOST POPULARTE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMBY JULIE MILLERRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTH“DOPEY AND CONSTUTNALLY DUB”: LEGAL EXPERTS BLAST JUDGE AILEEN CANNON’S LATT PRO-TMP RULGSBY BS LEVCALEB ERMA
• LOL LEARS SPEAK OUT AGAST OH’S SO-LLED “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL
• OH VERSN OF SO-LLED 'DON’T SAY GAY' BILL TRODUCED BY HOE REPUBLINS
• HOE REPUBLINS TRODUCE OH VERSN OF THE SO-LLED 'DON’T SAY GAY' BILL
• FLORIDA ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW SPIR PROPOSED LEGISLATN OH
• OH REPUBLINS TRODUCE SWEEPG ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL THAT ALSO TARGETS ‘DIVISIVE’ TEACHGS ON RACE

GOP LAWMAKERS TRODUCE VERSN OF 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL OH

The proposal is now facg backlash om lol LGBTQ bill b language om Florida's ntroversial Parental Rights Edutn law, dubbed by crics as the "Don't Say Gay" law, and legislatn that seeks to lim tn on race proposed by Republins some bill stat that "curriculum or stctnal materials on sexual orientatn or genr inty" would be banned classrooms startg om krgarten through third gra. A gay man speaks about clivens for the LGBTQ+ muny durg the "Solidary: Oh Uned agast Hate" rally support of unrreprented mori Oh cludg AAPI, Black and LGBTQ+ muni, Columb, Oh, May 16, Imag/LightRocket via Getty Imag, FILEIn gras four through twelve, such stctn would be banned if prented "any manner that is not age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards, " the bill is unclear how age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate-ns is fed and applied. "Oh's Don't Say Gay bill is yet another sid attempt to chill and censor ee speech the classroom.

Supporters ll the "Parental Rights Edutn" laws while opponents have named them the "Don't Say Gay" bills.

"'Divisive issu' tn:Compare Oh Hoe Bill 616 to Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' lawHow is HB 616 different? “The classroom is a place that seeks answers for our children whout polil activism, ” Schmidt said a is lled the 'Don't Say Gay' bill? The bills e terms such as sexual orientatn and genr inty, but crics have nicknamed them “Don’t Say Gay” laws.

OH LAWMAKERS TRODUCE BILL SIAR TO FLORIDA'S "DON'T SAY GAY" BILL THAT ALSO TARGETS "DIVISIVE" TEACHGS ABOUT RACE

Oh Hoe Bill 616 pairs some of the most harmful parts of Oh’s Curriculum Ban, HB 327, wh an even more drastic versn of Florida’s Don’t Say Gay Bill.

Florida lawmakers threaten to revoke Disney's tonomy after pany nmned "Don't Say Gay" law.

NEW OH HOE BILL BLENDS ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ WH RTRICTNS ON RACISM TN: CAPOL LETTER

Oh Hoe Republins troduced an tn bill this week that would prohib teachg young stunts about sexual orientatn or genr inty, siar to a divisive bill Florida — dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill — that was signed by the ernor March. People prott ont of Florida State Senator Ileana Garcia's (FL-R) office after the passage of the Parental Rights Edutn bill, dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill by LGBTQ activists on March 09, 2022 Miami, Florida. Recently, Oh Republin lawmakers amend a curriculum censorship bill—Hoe Bill 327—to clu anti-transgenr language, effectively creatg a bill wh a potential chillg effect siar to the Don’t Say Gay bill that recently passed Florida.

This bill is not a mirror image of Florida’s“Don’t Say Gay” bill, but a ter tch phrase for HB 327 might be “Trans Ban.

But stead of learng  a safe, fact-based, age-appropriate way, Wilson got a trmatic crash urse when terms like "gay" and "queer" were hurled as sults on an Akron playground the third gra.

IT’S NOT “DON’T SAY GAY” OH: IT’S “TRANS BAN”

That's why Wilson has been speakg out agast HB 616, filed the Oh legislature early this month, dubbed a parental rights bill by proponents and the "Don't Say Gay" bill by opponents. "A lot of people have reached out to me and told me their stori, tellg me very siar thgs to eher beg outed at school or beg nonted wh words like queer and gay before they knew what meant or that they themselv would eventually take those on as inti, " Wilson said.

He is also a Black gay man who cid to change his first name. If a stunt brgs up an issue or has a qutn about why a stunt's fay has two moms, for example, or asks what gay means, how would a teacher be permted to answer?

What we're talkg about here is erasg people who are gay, erasg people who are racial mori om our books, om our classrooms. "'It's racist, 's sexist and 's very judgmental' Steve Arrgton, executive director of the Akron AIDS Collaborative, is more ed to havg those -pth discsns about race, genr and sexualy, as a Black gay man and muny activist.

OH’S 'DON’T SAY GAY' BILL AND THE STATE'S BS

"Arrgton said his muny is still fightg the stigma of beg gay, pecially wh the Black muny. Referred to as Oh’s 'Don’t Say Gay' bill, the proposed legislatn would prevent teachers om addrsg sexual orientatn and genr inty K-Gra 3 classrooms. 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.

NOT JT FLORIDA. MORE THAN A DOZEN STAT PROPOSE SO-LLED 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILLS

"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.

OH REPUBLINS PROPOSE THEIR OWN “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL, WH A SI OF CRIL RACE THEORY HYSTERIAOH REPUBLINS ALSO WANT TO BAN TALK OF SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY GRA SCHOOL.BY CALEB ERMAAPRIL 6, 2022TRANSGENR RIGHTS ADVOT STAND OUTSI OF THE OH STATEHOE ON JUNE 24, 2021BY STEPHEN ZENNER/SOPA IMAG/LIGHTROCKETSAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEFLORIDA’S SO-LLED “DON’T SAY GAY” LAW IS SEEMGLY SPIRG NSERVATIV ACROSS THE NATN; REPUBLINS OH TRODUCED A BILL MONDAY THAT MIRRORS FLORIDA’S BAN ON CLASSROOM DISCSN OF GENR INTY AND SEXUAL ORIENTATN, AND TO ADD THEIR OWN TWIST, THE OH BILL CLUS A SPLASH OF CRIL RACE THEORY HYSTERIA AS WELL. THE BILL WOULD BAN OH PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS OM G “ANY CURRICULUM OR STCTNAL MATERIALS ON SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY” KRGARTEN THROUGH THIRD GRA. IT WOULD ALSO PROHIB TEACHERS OF FOURTH- TO 12TH-GRA STUNTS OM DISCSG “SEXUAL ORIENTATN OR GENR INTY ANY MANNER THAT IS NOT AGE-APPROPRIATE OR VELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE FOR STUNTS ACRDANCE WH STATE STANDARDS.” AND SHOEHORNED TO THIS ANTI-LGBTQ+ BILL IS A BAN ON ALL MATERIALS THAT DISCS “CRIL RACE THEORY,” “TERSECTNAL THEORY,” AND “HERED RACIAL GUILT,” (SPECIFILLY CG NIKOLE HANNAH-JON’S 1619 PROJECT FOR THE NEW YORK TIM) AND A TCHALL CLSE THAT WOULD FORBID THE TEACHG OF ANY “NCEPT THAT THE STATE BOARD OF TN F AS DIVISIVE OR HERENTLY RACIST.”“THEY PUT TEACHERS THE IMPOSSIBLE POSN OF NSTANTLY REGULATG THEIR WORDS AND ACTNS,” CHRISTA COLLS, OH STATE BOARD OF TN MEMBER, TELLS VANY FAIR, ADDG THAT THE BILL IS AN “OUTRIGHT BANNG OF DIVERSY” OH PUBLIC SCHOOLS. “STUNTS OFTEN TURN TO THEIR TEACHERS AND SCHOOL UNSELORS FOR SUPPORT, PECIALLY WHEN EXPLORG ISSU OF SELF-INTY,” SHE SAYS. “IN MY OPN, THIS IS THE WORST POSSIBLE OUTE FOR LGBTQ+ CHILDREN SPECIFILLY: HAVG NO ONE TO TURN TO WHEN THEY NEED A TSTED ADULT.”THE BILL’S SPONSOR, OH STATE REPRENTATIVE MIKE LOYCHIK, CLAIMS THAT PROMOT THE E OF “UNBIASED AND AGE-APPROPRIATE” CURRICULUM, WHILE SPONSOR JEAN SCHMIDT ADDS THAT OFFERS PARENTS “A SAY WHAT IS TGHT TO THEIR CHILDREN”—A JTIFITN REPUBLINS HAVE ALSO ED FENSE OF FLORIDA’S LAW. THE PROPOSAL AS REPUBLINS NATNWI HAVE ACCELERATED AN ANTI-LGBTQ+ AGENDA AT THE STATE LEVEL, PHG LAWS THAT OFTEN TARGET KIDS. OTHER STAT HAVE BANNED TRANSGENR KIDS OM PARTICIPATG SPORTS TEAMS THAT ALIGN WH THEIR GENR INTI. OH HOE MORY LEAR ALLISON RSO, A DEMOCRAT, NMNED OH REPUBLINS’ BILL AS A “DISGTG” ATTEMPT TO “[LEGIMIZE] BIGOTRY” A TUDAY STATEMENT. “THIS TO ME SPEAKS TO THE EXTREMISM THAT NTU TO N RAMPANT THIS STATEHOE, AND WE NNOT NTUE TO GROW AS A STATE ENOMILLY, DO RIGHT BY OUR OH FAI, IF WE DON’T EMBRACE OUR DIVERSY AND MAKE SURE THAT THIS STATE IS CLIVE FOR ALL OHANS,” RSO SAID. (LOYCHIK’S AND SCHMIDT’S OFFIC DID NOT IMMEDIATELY RPOND WHEN NTACTED FOR MENT.)CRICS ARE PARTICULARLY WARY OF THE BILL’S VAGUE LANGUAGE. THE BILL DO NOT TAIL WHAT KD OF MATERIALS QUALIFY AS “AGE-” AND “VELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE.” COLLS SAYS THE “NFG AND AMBIGUO” LANGUAGE PLAC TEACHERS AN IMPOSSIBLE BD. “WHO GETS TO FE WHAT IS AGE-APPROPRIATE?” SHE ASKS. THE CURRENT PROPOSAL GRANTS MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC OSTENSIBLY EE RE OVER WHAT NSTUT SUCH VLATNS, AS THEY ULD FILE PLATS AGAST SCHOOL EMPLOYE WHOM THEY BELIEVE VLATED THE LAW. SCHOOL OFFICIALS WOULD THEN FACE A HEARG OVER THE ALLEGATNS. PENALTI WOULD CLU LICENSE SPENSNS, OR SCHOOL FUNDG CUTS.STT DIMRO, PRINT OF THE OH EDUTN ASSOCIATN (OEA), A LOBBYG GROUP FOR OH TORS, HAS WARNED THAT THE BILL WOULD “PUT BOTH TEACHERS AND PARENTS A REALLY TOUGH SPOT.” DIMRO QUTNED IF WOULD EVEN ALLOW A TEACHER TO MENTN THE FAY OF A STUNT WH GAY PARENTS AND ASKED IF A TEACHER ULD BE FIRED IF THAT STUNT TOOK PART A CLASSROOM FAY-TREE PROJECT. “FUNDAMENTALLY THE BILLS ARE CYNIL ATTEMPTS TO E RACE AND NOW SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND GENR INTY AS WEDGE ISSU TO E DIVISN AND SOW NFLICT AND ULTIMATELY TO SRE CHEAP POLIL POTS,” DIMRO TOLD THE COLUMB DISPATCH. “LEGISLATORS THAT ARE PROMOTG THE KDS OF AGENDAS OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELV.”MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR       — ​​FOX NEWS HOSTS ENTERTAED PUT-FRIENDLY TALKG POTS. THEN THEIR COLLEAGU WERE KILLED UKRAE— THE LIFE AND CONFSNS OF MOB CHEF DAVID RUGGER— KREML KEEPS BLURRG ITS RED LE AROUND NUCLEAR WAR— CALLS FOR RECALS, RIGNATNS, AND EVEN IMPEACHMENT: DEMOCRATS ESLATE ETHICS CAMPAIGN AROUND CLARENCE THOMAS— TWO UKRAIAN AP JOURNALISTS CAPTURE THE MOST DEVASTATG MOMENTS OF WAR— TMP: IF I WAS PRINT I’D THREATEN TO DROP A NUCLEAR BOMB ON RSIA— WHAT WILL DEMS DO IF BIN DON’T RUN?— ORGI, BEHEADGS, JEWISH SPACE LASERS: EVERYTHG KEV MCCARTHY HAS HAD TO “SPEAK” TO REPUBLIN LAWMAKERS ABOUT— THE TTH BEHD REPUBLINS’ VILE QUTNG OF KETANJI BROWN JACKSON— FROM THE ARCHIVE: MOLLY BLOOM’S HOE OF CARDS— NOT A SUBSCRIBER? JO VANY FAIR TO RECEIVE FULL ACCS TO AND THE PLETE ONLE ARCHIVE NOW.MOST POPULARTE CRIME, TE FAH: THE SERIAL KILLER AND THE TEXAS MOM WHO STOPPED HIMBY JULIE MILLERRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTH“DOPEY AND CONSTUTNALLY DUB”: LEGAL EXPERTS BLAST JUDGE AILEEN CANNON’S LATT PRO-TMP RULGSBY BS LEVCALEB ERMA

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. 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.

Florida’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” law is seemgly spirg nservativ across the natn; Republins Oh troduced a bill Monday that mirrors Florida’s ban on classroom discsn of genr inty and sexual orientatn, and to add their own twist, the Oh bill clus a splash of cril race theory hysteria as well. ” DiMro qutned if would even allow a teacher to mentn the fay of a stunt wh gay parents and asked if a teacher uld be fired if that stunt took part a classroom fay-tree project.

TOLEDO, Oh (WTVG) - The Lus County Commissners and other lol lears held a prs nference voicg opposn to Hoe Bill 616, Oh’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bill, on bill has garnered rpons om policians and var anizatns due to s stance on ntroversial topics such as sexual orientatn and cril race theory beg tght attendance were Cy Council members Nick Komiv and Toledo Public Schools board member Sheena Barn, and Print of the Toledo chapter of NAACP Rev.

LOL LEARS SPEAK OUT AGAST OH’S SO-LLED “DON’T SAY GAY” BILL

We are everywhere, ” Komiv hoe bill troduced by state Republins earlier this month is very siar to Florida’s so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” law. The bill, HB616, is siar to language ed a Florida measure which me to be known as the "Don't Say Gay" bill. Jean Schmidt (R-Loveland) about HB616, which plac bans on teachg about sexual orientatn and genr inty schools, siar to Florida's so-lled "Don't Say Gay" law — "The State Of Oh" PBS News Program (@stateofohshow) April 5, 2022.

Two Republin state lawmakers Oh have troduced a bill that many ways mirrors Florida’s ntroversial law that crics have dubbed “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn.

OH VERSN OF SO-LLED 'DON’T SAY GAY' BILL TRODUCED BY HOE REPUBLINS

“Oh’s Don’t Say Gay bill is yet another sid attempt to chill and censor ee speech the classroom.

Republin legislators Oh have troduced what opponents have lled “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn, mirrorg a Florida law that crics warn will have a chillg effect on LGBT+ stunts, teachers and their ’s Hoe Bill 616 would ban schools om teachg, g or providg “any curriculum or stctnal materials” on sexual orientatn or genr inty gras krgarten through third gra, and siarly bans such materials fourth through 12th gra nsired “not age-appropriate or velopmentally appropriate for stunts acrdance wh state standards.

“Oh’s Don’t Say Gay bill is yet another sid attempt to chill and censor ee speech the classroom, ” Equaly Oh’s executive director Alana Jochum said a statement. Siar so-lled “Don’t Say Gay” bills have also been filed Geia and Amerin Civil Liberti Unn and Freedom For All Amerins have tracked more than 230 bills, while the Human Rights Campaign found more than 300 piec of legislatn nsired harmful, wh more than 130 of those measur targetg transgenr people.

HOE REPUBLINS TRODUCE OH VERSN OF THE SO-LLED 'DON’T SAY GAY' BILL

FLORIDA ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ LAW SPIR PROPOSED LEGISLATN OH

OH REPUBLINS TRODUCE SWEEPG ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL THAT ALSO TARGETS ‘DIVISIVE’ TEACHGS ON RACE