Democrats claim Florida is pushing ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill. Here’s what the legislation actually says

Florida Republicans on Tuesday handed a parental rights invoice that progressives have claimed is anti-LGBTQ. 

However absent from a lot of the dialogue across the invoice are the precise contents of the proposed laws.

The invoice, formally named Parental Rights in Training, bans faculty workers or third events from giving classroom instruction on “sexual orientation” or “gender id” in kindergarten via third grade.

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The invoice, which handed the state Senate Tuesday after passing the Home final month, has been dubbed the “Don’t Say Homosexual” invoice by Democrats who falsely declare it bans any dialogue pertaining to being homosexual within the state’s colleges. 

President Biden known as it a “hateful invoice” in a tweet final month.

Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is predicted to signal the invoice, lambasted a WFLA reporter on Monday for saying the “Don’t Say Homosexual” misnomer throughout a press convention.

“Does it say that within the invoice?” DeSantis requested, including that “it is why folks do not belief folks such as you since you peddle false narratives.”

“And we’ll make it possible for dad and mom are capable of ship their child to kindergarten with out having some of these things injected into their faculty curriculum,” the governor stated. 

DeSantis spokeswoman Christina Pushaw equally fired again at an Related Press reporter on Tuesday.

“What is the invoice’s actual title, @ZekeJMiller?” she requested. “Does it point out the phrase ‘homosexual’ or LGBT folks in any respect? Are AP reporters anticipated to learn laws earlier than writing about it?”

Fox Information Digital did learn the Parental Rights in Training invoice, and right here’s what it says:

What the invoice does

It does require faculty districts to undertake procedures that “reinforce the elemental proper of fogeys to make selections concerning the upbringing and management of their youngsters in a specified method.”

It does prohibit classroom instruction, not informal dialogue, on “sexual orientation” and “gender id” with youngsters in third grade or youthful, “or in a fashion that’s not age-appropriate or developmentally applicable for college kids in accordance with state requirements.”

It does require faculty districts to notify a scholar’s dad or mum if there’s a change “within the scholar’s providers or monitoring associated to the scholar’s psychological, emotional, or bodily well being or well-being and the faculty’s means to offer a protected and supportive studying surroundings for the scholar.”

It does prohibit colleges from “encouraging a scholar to withhold” such data from a dad or mum.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks in regards to the firefighting effort and out there help for Bay County throughout a press convention in Panama Metropolis on March 6, 2022.
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It does require faculty districts to notify dad and mom of every well being care service supplied at their scholar’s faculty and the choice to withhold consent or decline any particular service.

It does require that oldsters be allowed to entry their youngster’s instructional or well being data saved by the varsity.

It does require the varsity to get parental permission earlier than administering a well-being questionnaire or well being screening to college students in kindergarten via third grade.

It does require colleges to answer a dad or mum’s considerations inside seven days of being notified of these considerations, and the varsity should resolve these considerations inside 30 days. If the problem will not be resolved, dad and mom can then sue the varsity district or request the state Commissioner of Training to nominate a particular Justice of the Peace to mediate an answer, which the varsity district should pay for.

What the invoice doesn’t:

It doesn’t ban the phrase “homosexual” in class settings.

It doesn’t ban informal discussions of subjects referring to sexual orientation and gender id within the classroom.

It doesn’t require colleges to inform dad and mom if their youngster comes out as homosexual or transgender.

It doesn’t require colleges to inform dad and mom of data concerning the scholar’s psychological, emotional, or bodily well-being “if a fairly prudent individual would consider that disclosure would end in abuse, abandonment, or neglect.”