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Legislators in Indiana are working to bar educators from discussing in any context “sexual orientation,” “transgenderism” or “gender identity” without permission from parents.īills like these are “anti-people,” Barbara Simon, head of news and campaigns for the LGBTQ+ media advocacy group GLAAD, told Changing America. Another, in Kansas, seeks to amend the state’s obscenity law to make using classroom materials depicting “homosexuality” a Class B misdemeanor. There are 15 similar bills moving through state legislatures that restrict how textbooks and curriculums teach LGBTQ+ topics, who can be hired and what teachers are allowed to say when it comes to gender identity and sexual orientation.Ī House bill in Tennessee would ban textbook and instructional materials that “promote, normalize, support, or address lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) lifestyles” in K-12 schools. Yet Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill is just one part of a nationwide trend.
President Biden and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten condemned the bill as hateful and dangerous actress Kerry Washington said she was “ horrified by what’s happening ” and activists say the law would effectively “erase young LGBTQ students across Florida.” Since Florida’s House committee passed the Parental Rights in Education bill - known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill - in January, a national spotlight has turned on the state as it proposes banning school instruction on LGBTQ+ people and issues.