The bill expands the Parental Rights in Education Act passed last year, extending the ban on classroom instruction related to gender identity and sexual orientation from grades K-3 to PreK-8th grade and other restrictions.
Jake Stofan, Action News JaxJACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Florida bill the LGBTQ+ community is calling “Don’t Say Gay 2.0″ cleared its first hurdle in the state legislature Tuesday, to the dismay of dozens of opponents who traveled to the State Capitol to testify against it.
But it was a provision prohibiting schools from requiring teachers and students to use pronouns that don’t align with a person’s biological sex that fueled the most anger from opponents in the bill’s first committee hearing.“If you guys vote yes on this you will continue to see a lot more of this,” said Devonte Ford with Equality Florida, showing his sliced wrist to lawmakers.
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