Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks on the Conservative Political Motion Convention (CPAC), Feb. 24, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. John Raoux, Related Press
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed the “Parental Rights in Schooling” invoice, successfully banning the dialogue of LGBTQ matters and “sexual orientation or gender identification” in Florida’s public faculties.
What he mentioned: “In Florida, we not solely know that folks have a proper to be concerned, we insist that folks have a proper to be concerned,” DeSantis mentioned, per The Tampa Bay Instances.
- “We’ve seen libraries which have clearly inappropriate pornographic supplies for very younger youngsters, and we’ve seen companies that got to college students with out the consent and even data of their mother and father throughout the nation, and sadly, that’s occurred right here within the state of Florida,” DeSantis mentioned, per WESH-TV.
Particulars: The invoice — HB1557 — initially restricted “classroom dialogue” about gender identification and sexual orientation. But it surely has been modified to cease “classroom instruction by college personnel or third events,” based on The Tampa Bay Instances.
- Faculties can not add insurance policies that cease disclosure of “important selections” to folks “affecting a pupil’s psychological, emotional, or bodily well being or well-being,” per The Tampa Bay Instances.
- Nevertheless, faculties might “withhold sure info in the event that they imagine the disclosure would end in abuse, neglect or abandonment,” The Tampa Bay Instances reported.
What to know: The invoice — which critics name the “Don’t Say Homosexual” invoice — has made headlines in current weeks as a result of widespread response all through the nation.
- Critics have mentioned the invoice may hurt LGBTQ kids for a variety of causes.
- Companies — like Disney — have spoken out in opposition to the invoice, too, as I reported for the Deseret Information.