Sexual orientation and gender identity is about who we love and who we are.”Ĭhasten Buttigieg, a n LGBTQ+ advocate who is married to the US secretary of transportation, Pete Buttigieg, condemned Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, tweeting: “This will kill kids … You are purposefully making your state a harder place for LGBTQ+ kids to survive in.”īuttigieg cited data from the Trevor Project, a nonprofit focused on suicide prevention among LGBTQ+ youth. “ is only talking about sexual orientation and gender identity and it’s stigmatizing because of that.
Conversations about us aren’t something dangerous that should be banned. In response, Jon Harris Maurer, public policy director for Equality Florida, said: “We’re parents, students and teachers. “That job can only be given to you by above.” “This bill is about defending the most awesome responsibility a person can have: being a parent,” said the state representative Joe Harding, a Republican who introduced the bill. In addition to allowing parents to launch legal actions against school boards if they believe policies overstep that “fundamental right”, the bill bans teachers from discussing in classrooms LGBTQ+ topics “not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students”. The bill requires the implementation of “procedures to reinforce fundamental right of parents to make decisions regarding upbringing and control of their children”.
