What os dont say gay bill

Students and teachers in Florida can now discuss sexual orientation and gender identity in a classroom setting as long as it's not part of formal instruction. Yes, so the law still bans outright instruction about gender identity and sexuality here in Florida.

But it's also a big win for LGBTQ advocates, folks who have lived under this law for two years and were afraid to be out publicly in the school system, fearing what might happen if you said the wrong thing or as a teacher maybe have the wrong book in their classroom.

Geoff, this may be a state law, but it has reached beyond Florida, with other conservative states inspired by the prohibitions. Florida passes controversial 'Don’t Say Gay' bill The Parental Rights in Education Bill includes a ban on lessons regarding "sexual orientation or gender identity" for students grades K It.

State lawmakers advanced what's officially known as the "parental rights in education" bill. The Bill is framed around the. However, the law was not repealed and still forbids explicit class curriculum dealing with LGBTQ topics. There is no question that, following this settlement, students, teachers, parents of LGBTQ students and LGBTQ parents can say gay, can say trans, can be gay, can be trans in Florida's public school system and not be afraid of the bullying and the weaponization of this law to lead to sweeping censorship.

So a lot of the law and the policies around the law still are very much in effect here in Florida. You have been reporting on the impacts, Danielle, of this law, the impacts it's had on kids and families who identify as LGBTQ.

And moving forward, as we heard in your clip, parents and teachers and students will be able to speak freely and write freely about gender identity and sexuality in classroom discussions, on essays, on projects. Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy.

But with this settlement, at least some of those concerns may be put to rest. How do you figure that? It's still very much in effect. They may contain errors. What the law has meant in Florida is teachers afraid to even use the words gay or transgender when speaking to students outside the classroom or even celebrating their own identity or support of the LGBTQ community with, say, rainbow stickers.

This was a big win for his conservative base inwhen it was passed. That's an important change that's part of a new settlement reached between state education officials and civil rights attorneys who challenged a law labeled by critics as the don't say gay law.

So that's a win for the governor and for his party. Teachers can put safe space stickers up and also have gay-straight alliances and other kind of LGBTQ clubs at schools. Help us understand what this settlement actually changed.

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Stephanie Sy Stephanie Sy. Shoshana Dubnow Shoshana Dubnow. Legal experts dissect whether the bill would prevent the “instruction” or “discussion” of sexual orientation and gender identity and which grade levels would be affected.

So that would include like a class or a book or even a unit in a section of a textbook that would instruct people in any way about gender identity and sexuality. The Parental Rights in Education Act (HB ), commonly referred to as the Don't Say Gay law, is a Florida statute passed in that regulates public schools in Florida.

Here’s what the bill does and does not say. According to the text of the Bill, its aim is to prohibit “classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in certain grade levels” in Florida’s primary schools.

The law is most notable for prohibiting public schools from having "classroom discussion" or giving "classroom instruction" [a] about sexual orientation or gender identity from kindergarten through 3rd grade or in a manner. Kids can read books again with gay characters.

Yes, so, basically, the law, it's not overturned and it's not repealed. So the law is still in effect, as well as a lot of the policies that were kind of inspired by the law, things like banning AP African American history because there was a queer theory unit, or making it so that sociology is no longer a core curriculum course for undergrads here because it talked about human sexuality.

I understand the text of the law was altered. In MarchFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law the Parental Rights in Education bill, better known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill (the Bill) by its opponents.