Posted on 01/26/2023 2:43:37 AM PST by Libloather
More than half of LGBTQ parents in Florida are considering moving their families to another state over concerns that a new Florida education law – known to its critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” law – stigmatizes LGBTQ identities and creates a hostile learning environment for LGBTQ children or students with LGBTQ family members.
In a report issued Tuesday by the Williams Institute, a public policy research institute based at the UCLA of Law, and Clark University in Massachusetts, 56 percent of LGBTQ parents surveyed said they were considering leaving Florida over concerns about how the new law may impact their children and family. Another 17 percent said they had already taken steps to do so.
“I am terrified that I would need to make the decision to leave Florida and leave my parents,” one respondent said. “The idea of having to leave to protect my child and my partner is scary but one I am willing to do.”
The new law, officially titled the “Parental Rights in Education” law, bars public kindergarten through third grade teachers from engaging in classroom instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity – subjects the measure’s proponents in the state legislature last year argued are inappropriate for young students.
Educators through high school are barred from addressing either topic in the classroom in a manner that is not “age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate” for their students. Florida public school teachers who violate the law risk having their licenses suspended or revoked under a rule adopted by the state Board of Education in October.
LGBTQ parents in Florida surveyed by the Willams Institute between June and September said their initial response to the bill, introduced last January in the state House, ranged from fear to disbelief.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Well.......bye !
My soon-to-be new state is looking better and better!!!
Anyone remember when lefties said they were going to leave the country if Trump got elected? Same thing. Unfortunately, these people will likely stay.
So the parents are miffed because they, and their little fruitcake, aren’t going to be the center of attention. Let them leave.
Good! Go to california and pay those nice high taxes and groom children.
Many parents with gay children who have heretofore been loyal patriots are quick to turn when they have to decide between their gay children and the country.
I have seen examples of this recently. The Marxists were quite clever when they decided to include the LGBTQ crowd in their group of victims.
Good. There are too many people in FL anyway.
Please, do NOT relocate to Tennessee.
it’s good Florida is a very large state ‘cuz if they keep this up half the country will want to live there.
Dividends are already paying out for Florida.
The homos and trans queers are like welfare leaches. They eat up all healthcare resources with their constant depressed state, including the high risk of HIV treatment for their fudge packing behavior.
Modified quote from Planet of the Apes:
Why, queer freaks are a nuisance. They eat up the food supply in the forest, then migrates to green belts and ravages all the crops. The sooner the movement is exterminated, the better.
There might be panic at Disneyworld and maybe on a couple of college campuses, but where else? Most people in Florida live in the reality-based community.
Often, it appears to be a form of Munchausen Syndrome by proxy.
The parents love the attention and "support" they get by showing far leftists how much they support their "trans" child.
Subaru dealers and sensible shoe stores are nervous.
What’s not to love?
He still hasn’t secured Florida’s elections.
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True.
Here in South Dakota, I was so happy to be asked for my driver’s license and then given a paper ballot to mark my selections for my very, very red state.
Homosexuals don’t reproduce...they recruit
The hill is an interesting publication. Everyone should read this article as it proves an excellent example of propaganda by the left. They repeatedly bash Desantis for passing the law, and he didn’t do it alone, basically say it’s horrible for gay parents. Then they wait to the last two paragraphs to explain that the law is actually anti grooming of K-3rd grade…….
Adults want to be gay, that is their business. Sexualizing minors is grooming. K-3rd grade……leave them kids alone. Don’t believe that, by all means leave Florida.
so the population of Florida will decrease by what?? 22?
Florida, where gays have gone to key west, disney, sarasota, and st petersburg to vacation for years is now suddenly not “gay friendly” says people in california and massachusetts. It’s all in somebodies head. Florida could give a crap as long as you leave our children alone.
Yep. A whole lifestyle predicated on sexual perversion requires mental perversion first of all. Namely: my sex organs were made for X but I want Y.
This is license, not liberty.
And any conservative who thinks it can be “integrated” into the movement ought to reflect on exactly why such behavior was ostracized for so many thousands of years.
Leftists always promise to leave if they don’t get their way, but they never keep their promises.
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