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.
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K, bye bye!
Bye bye. You’ll be welcome in CA where they are going to take money from normal people and give it to trans.
80% of people living in California are thinking of leaving...
When hundreds of thousands of people LEAVE California and New York THAT’S A STORY.
People ‘thinking’ about moving is NOT a story.
Can we get them their own state? Any blue state will do.
That means Floridians need to worry about why almost half of resident perverts want to stay.
Well …. Bye
“I am terrified that I would need to make the decision to leave Florida and leave my parents,”
Parents can finally get the kids out of their basements! Parents are rejoicing they finally get the house to themselves.
They want their children groomed. They provide them to these “drag queen” perverts.
Good
Move and take your freak show with you
I hear California is nice
Nothing comes before family. Period.
Your very very red State just pushed through the Legislature the largest one time expenditure in the history of SD in Senate bill SB41 in the name of work force housing. Unfortunately the words work force housing do not appear anywhere in the bill. So what we end up with if the Governor signs the bill is an anything goes construction company loan program.
Speaking of expensive Government programs picking winners and losers at the local level.
We are not nearly as red as you might think. Your very own legislators and Senator may very well have voted yea on SB41.
The signs say “Welcome To Georgia” or “Welcome to Alabama”! Check ‘em out as you leave!
NY, CA, and MA will welcome them with open sphincters - Why stay in FL?
That percentage, whatever it is, needs to be seriously increased...
GOOD RIDDANCE!
Using data gathered from 113 LGBTQ+ parents in Florida
Protect them from WHAT?
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