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Posted on 02/05/2022 12:17:54 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Protesters in South Florida Tuesday evening gathered at a local LGBTQ+ center to condemn a bill moving through the Florida House of Representatives seeking to limit discussions about sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools.
Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill, which has also been called the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, passed in the state House Education and Employment Committee in January.
The bill, introduced by state Sen. Joe Harding (R), would bar educators in Florida from talking about LGBTQ+ topics that are not considered “age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students.” A nearly identical bill has also been introduced in the state Senate.
Lana Goff, an 11th grader in Broward County, Fla., who attended Tuesday’s rally, told CBS-affiliate WFOR-TV that she’s worried the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill will worsen the nonacceptance of LGBTQ+ individuals.
“It just should be more normalized and talked about in class and not, ‘that’s kind of a touchy subject, let’s not talk about this,’” she said. Goff added that she has been an out LGBTQ+ person since the seventh grade.
Another attendee, Tom Lander, chairperson of Safe Schools South Florida, told Fox-affiliate WSVN that the bill could prevent his organization from conducting important workshops for educators and counselors on school grounds, which the group has been doing for three decades.
Other higher-profile critics of the bill include Chasten Buttigieg, the husband of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who tweeted shortly after the bill passed in the House committee that it “will kill kids” should it become law.
Buttigieg in his tweet cited a report from the Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ youth suicide prevention and crisis intervention group, which found 42 percent of LGBTQ+ youth seriously considered taking their own life at some point in the past year.
“What kind of state are you building where you're essentially pushing kids back into the closet?” Buttigieg said during an appearance on CNN late last month.
Buttigieg argued that the bill has little to do with parents’ rights and really aims to erase LGBTQ+ history, culture and people.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), during a campaign stop in South Florida on Tuesday said he believed many parents are genuinely concerned about what their children are being exposed to in the classroom.
“I think a lot of parents have very strong beliefs about what is appropriate for the school system to be discussing and certainly in terms of trying to affirmatively push kids in one direction or another in some of these areas,” he said, WFOR-TV reported.
The Union RAT Teachers shouldn’t be discussing sexual deviancy in the schools. Fill that time with American History, science, math and ESPECIALLY ENGLISH!
It’s impossible for these people to get over themselves. How do they combine all of that self regard with all of that self loathing?
I thought someone was trying to ban calling lame stuff “gay”.
“ Buttigieg in his tweet cited a report from the Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ youth suicide prevention and crisis intervention group, which found 42 percent of LGBTQ+ youth seriously considered taking their own life at some point in the past year.”
And Butt head wants to normalize the very thing that makes that stat accurate. Defund the LGBT police, not the real ones.
Next they’ll be trying to ban calling gay stuff lame!
Maybe the solution is to have ‘gay schools’. Parents who want their kids to grow up gay can send their kids there, while the other 99% of parents can send their kids to schools where they learn useful stuff.
I bet the protestors all looked FAAAABULOUS!!!!!!
The only reason they discuss this in schools so heavily is to groom children. Last time I checked, that’s against the law.
“It just should be more normalized”
There is your problem, trying to force normal people to “accept” your metal illness as normal.
They already tried that and it failed.. like everything else they do.
“Another attendee, Tom Lander, chairperson of Safe Schools South Florida, told Fox-affiliate WSVN that the bill could prevent his organization from conducting important workshops for educators and counselors on school grounds, which the group has been doing for three decades.”
No intent to criticize DeSantis here because he’s very new, but WHERE THE HELL have the Republicans been?
Answer: Their leadership is infiltrated with gays (think Lincoln Project) and they have ‘advised’ Republican candidates and office holders to stay clear of ‘divisive social issues’. And those Republicans say “duhhhh, that makes sense”...and the Left marches on.
Good-it is past time to get talk about the bedroom out of the classroom-straight, gay, bi or whatever-none of it belongs outside of private homes-or maybe a HS sex ed class-private matters do not belong in classrooms-it is not appropriate...
“ Buttigieg in his tweet cited a report from the Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ youth suicide prevention and crisis intervention group, which found 42 percent of LGBTQ+ youth seriously considered taking their own life at some point in the past year.”
Interesting. Based on that, the schools should be doing EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to explain to kids just how horrible that ‘lifestyle’ is, starting with AIDS, complete with pictures of the guys shriveling up and dying, and then on to the many, many, other sickness that reside mainly in that community.
That is, if they actually cared about the kids.
“It just should be more normalized”
That quote is from an 11th grader which makes her what, 16 or 17?
At that age few kids know their azz from a whole in the ground....I wonder what her parents think.
It is in the compelling interest of the state, the parents, ad the public at large they they be restrained from so doing.
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“It just should be more normalized” - I think the speaker meant “Cis-dnerized”, not “normalized”. Cis-gender is a term the marginals came up so they could avoid calling normal people normal. It must be like Holy Water for vampires.
Liberals only think with their genitals.
Keep them tied up fighting these types of things constantly, win or lose.
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