(Don't wear a mask, boys and girls or the governor will snap at you.) This bill is consistent with so much that has come out ot Tallahassee this year, driving culture wars through the schoolhouse gates by banning books, banning discomfiting unpleasantries from curricula and demonizing science-supported anti-COVID policies. just an awful, incorrect assumption and misunderstanding of anything related to sexual orientation." Rachel Needle, a licensed clinical psychologist and certified sex therapist in West Palm Beach, this week correctly called out that remark as ". She likened opponents of the bill to pedophiles. “If you’re against the Anti-Grooming bill, you are probably a groomer or at least you don’t denounce the grooming of 4-8-year-old children.” she said. While the governor has not said whether he will sign it, comments by his Press Secretary Christina Pushaw left little doubt. The bill has passed the Republican-controlled Legislature and awaits Gov.
The prohibition represents a retreat from social enlightenment while promoting homophobia and stirring the anxieties and depression that gender intolerance causes. In yet another Legislative intrusion into public education, HB 1557 would ban classroom discussion about sexual orientation in grades K-3. The Florida GOP's Parental Rights in Education bill, more aptly criticized nationwide as the Don't Say Gay bill, would set back human understanding in the state by decades and harm those it pretends to protect.