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Anti-LGBT+ ‘attacks’ from Ron DeSantis spark statewide student walkout in Florida
The Independent ^ | February 23, 2023 | Alex Woodward

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: antiwoke; desantis; donatetofreerepublic; dontsaygay; fl; florida; independent; nogroomers; nopedos
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To: CFW
DeSantis needs to track down which teachers organized this...

The protest itself was too ludicrous and miniscule to take seriously. A typical BBQ at an FSU football game has more attendance than this ridiculous walkout. It was performance art, pure simple, made to get glowing coverage from a fawning fake news media and should be regarded as such.

21 posted on 02/23/2023 3:25:05 PM PST by LuxAerterna
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To: Golden Eagle
Scary how the Marxists have captured our youth. A generation of robots for the left.
22 posted on 02/23/2023 3:25:16 PM PST by iontheball
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To: Golden Eagle

College students?

That’s their loss of instruction.

They have already paid for it.


23 posted on 02/23/2023 3:25:33 PM PST by Scrambler Bob
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To: Scrambler Bob
That’s their loss of instruction. They have already paid for it.

I'd be willing to bet most if not all haven't paid a dime yet themselves. All daddy's money or some loan.

24 posted on 02/23/2023 3:28:24 PM PST by Golden Eagle (The LGBT indoctrination agenda is designed to outlaw the Bible, and anyone who believes it.)
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To: Golden Eagle

Kick them all out permanently.


25 posted on 02/23/2023 3:30:28 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Golden Eagle

On 25 March 2010, Independent News & Media sold the newspaper to a new company owned by the family of Russian oligarch Alexander Lebedev for a nominal £1 fee and £9.25 million over the next 10 months, choosing this option over closing.


26 posted on 02/23/2023 3:33:12 PM PST by Bookshelf
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To: Golden Eagle
"... walkouts... "

Go to the corner of sanity and sexuality, take a hard Left... Mar-a-Lago is open.

27 posted on 02/23/2023 3:42:13 PM PST by BuddhaBrown (Path to enlightenment: Four right turns, then go straight until you see the Light!)
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To: Golden Eagle

DeSantis is not overtly anti-homo or anti-lesbian.

He is just very strongly PRO NORMAL.

And the perverts can’t stand that.


28 posted on 02/23/2023 3:48:12 PM PST by Iron Munro ( Michael Byrd: "Well, Somebody had to do it - Babbitt wasn't gonna' shoot herself!")
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To: Golden Eagle

I’d say they are looking for any excuse to skip class


29 posted on 02/23/2023 3:50:42 PM PST by southernindymom
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To: adorno

Yeah, screw ‘em.


30 posted on 02/23/2023 3:55:02 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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To: Golden Eagle

These very thoughtful and compassionate students need to make a real statement. They must immediately quit all classes, move out of state, and pay back their student loan in full.

That’ll teach that bad old transphobic Desantis guy for sure.

I’ll give them the number for the local U-Haul out of the kindness of my heart.

EC


31 posted on 02/23/2023 3:56:09 PM PST by Ex-Con777
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To: Golden Eagle

Good day for surprise quizzes worth 20% of the final grade.


32 posted on 02/23/2023 4:06:54 PM PST by fretzer
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To: Golden Eagle

If you cannot win on truth, then it is time to lose.


33 posted on 02/23/2023 4:11:58 PM PST by Safrguns
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To: Golden Eagle

oh gosh- a dozen or so kids with no sense walked out- whatever will florida do? Florida will go bankrupt now... or something


34 posted on 02/23/2023 4:31:43 PM PST by Bob434
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To: Golden Eagle

Ah, the brain dead, propagandized zombies doing their Leftist masters bidding. So Fn what.


35 posted on 02/23/2023 5:20:10 PM PST by falcon99 ( )
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To: Golden Eagle

Society does not need for such students to continue in the University. They should not be allowed back in after they walk out.


36 posted on 02/23/2023 5:39:38 PM PST by arthurus (covfefe )
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To: Golden Eagle

Oh, the brainwashed Satanist youths are upset. Too bad their parents suck & they lack the intelligence or moral standing to appreciate the difference between good & evil.


37 posted on 02/23/2023 6:25:54 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Golden Eagle

Let them keep walking. Sooner or later they will hit a body of water and we can only hope they can’t swim while protesting.


38 posted on 02/23/2023 6:54:15 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Golden Eagle

Come on Ron, put public prayer back in public on college campus’ and have camera rolling legal teams to get them some LGBT A$$-——holes to prosecute.


39 posted on 02/23/2023 10:05:34 PM PST by Jumper ( )
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