Posted on 02/23/2023 3:00:45 PM PST by Golden Eagle
College students across the state of Florida walked out of their classrooms on 23 February to protest Governor Ron DeSantis and his administration’s agenda targeting LGBT+ people in the state and on its campuses, including a requirement for state universities to submit information about students and other patients who sought gender-affirming care at their facilities.
The statewide walkout demanded that the administration end its “attacks” against LGBT+ students and staff at Florida universities, which the governor’s opponents have linked to his sweeping agenda to eliminate access to gender transition healthcare and transform public education in the state.
Protests followed the governor’s recent directive that public entities such as state-run colleges submit aggregate medical information for anyone who sought gender-affirming care services at their hospitals and clinics. At least six state universities have complied with the request, according to Insider.
Thursday’s Stand for Freedom walkouts and “Can’t Ban Us” protests – efforts supported by newly elected US Rep Maxwell Frost, several state lawmakers and LGBT+ advocacy group Equality Florida, among others – accused the governor’s office of “hijacking” the state’s schools and implementing policies that “marginalise” LGBT+ students and students of color.
The protests also echo the walkouts at high school campuses across the state in 2022 as the state legislature advanced the DeSantis-backed Parental Rights in Education Act, which opponents condemned as the “Don’t Say Gay” law over fears that its broad language – and enforcement through civil actions against teachers and schools for perceived violations – will chill classroom speech and how students learn about LGBT+ people, history and events, or their families, or themselves, and raises questions about how students can discuss any of those issues without potential lawsuits.
At least 38 similar measures have been proposed in 20 other states in the wake of that law.
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I dub DeSantis the “WoW” candidate for president.
“War on Woke”.
If one is not bowing to the Woke thugs, it’s considered an attack?
Don’t give them an inch, DS DeSantis
Lol.. we called it skip day. We did it for no reason except we wanted to.
And drop out too! That’ll teach him.
Just spontaneous and student organized I’m sure. DeSantis needs to track down which teachers organized this walk-out and make sure they are fired. Parents send their child to school to be educated, not to participate in the left’s social justice crusade.
Fail them all...
I saw 20 at one demo
Sometimes little children can be troublesome.
I saw 20 at one demo
That’s, like, a lot, like almost many!
No loss. These kids appear more focused of queer stuff than their studies. Let ‘em walk. Besides, it’ll improve the student to professor ratio.
QUICK !!!!
Lock the doors of the school !!!
My estimation of him is rising...let’s see how strong he stays
How could cutting off your penis possibly be “gender affirming”???
Bye
DeSantis ought to import a few Ukie press gangs to round up some "volunteer" college Commies for the front lines at Bakhmut...
I can remember when the “Queers and fags and lesbians” were despised by other students and no one wanted to have anything to do with such “perverts”. In truth most of us had no idea what they were as we thought they were just weird kids. Most were simply called “Freaks” at that time.
How far we have fallen as a nation!
At least we were honest about skipping. Not today. It is a mix of Pied Piper, and Follow the Leader.
Let the poor little snowflakes walk back to New York, where they can appreciate the REAL tyranny there.
Go ahead, walk out. I’m tired of little snowflakes .... they can leave Florida colleges and universities and attend institutions in California.
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