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DeSantis sued by LGBTQ students over bill that bans gender and sexuality lessons

April 2, 2022 | | Print Article

DCNFLaurel Duggan, DCNF

A group of students, parents, teachers and activists are suing Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over a new law banning classroom instruction on sexuality and gender identity for young children.

The lawsuit alleges the Parental Rights In Education law, which bans lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade, violates the First Amendment, claiming phrases like “gender identity” and “age-appropriate” are too vague and will have a chilling effect on the behavior and speech of students, teachers and parents. It also claims the law breaches the Fourteenth Amendment and Title IX regulations by discriminating against gay and transgender people.

LGBT activist organizations Equality Florida and Family Equality are named as plaintiffs in the case, along with a lesbian rabbi and her domestic partner, the mother of a transgender fifth-grader, a middle school teacher who incorporates “issues related to the LGBTQ community” in her classroom instruction and several other interested parties.

The lawsuit also claims Florida’s law “erases other LGBTQ members of the school community and parents” and “is motivated by animus against LGBTQ students, families, and teachers of Florida, and those who would accept and support them in school.”

The law in question, which DeSantis signed Monday, bans classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation from kindergarten through third grade, requires those lessons to be age-appropriate in fourth grade and higher and requires parental consent for health care services offered in schools.

“The bill I signed today protects Florida parents like January Littlejohn,” DeSantis said Monday. “School officials manipulated her daughter to ‘transition,’ calling her a male name and pronouns without January’s knowledge or consent. This is wrong and today’s legislation will ensure it doesn’t happen again.”

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12 thoughts on “DeSantis sued by LGBTQ students over bill that bans gender and sexuality lessons”

  1. A lesbian “rabbi”? What sort of congregation does it serve?

    Also, shouldn’t they be suing over the inadequate education their “kids” are getting, when compared with what like-aged children in many other countries are being provided?

  2. They would be the first to scream if conservatives used children for a cause! WTF?🤨

  3. We need to expose the individuals who are funding these subversive organizations?

  4. They shouldn’t be learning ANYTHING about sex at that age. There’s no discrimination against anyone – except those trying to sexualize children. If that’s you, you’re targeted. We shouldn’t even have to have such a bill in the first place!

  5. There are 3 kinds of Liberal, Communist, America hating, immoral, corrupt, fact hiding, non-binary, queer loving, race baiting, lying, DemoRat and RINO Republicans’: 1) They don’t care what happens, they just hate Original American Values – 2) Their ignorant of facts or just ignorant, – 3) They want the destruction of America by any means possible, and promote all the above agenda’s,

  6. LBGTQ+ pedophiles want sole access to pervert our children. Sorry, that’s not going to happen. They will have to troll playgrounds looking for unattended children like the rest of the pedophiles!

  8. Forget it … their “college” teachers don’t know that the Governor (of any state) is protected by diplomatic immunity. They really aren’t as smart as they think they are. They only gleaned some 3rd page headline in some liberal news wrag.

  9. Really? A group of 5 to 8 years olds are suing the governor? What horseschiff is this?

  10. …..and when they lose their case they can pay the court costs, similar to Daniel’s paying Trump’s.

  11. Go ahead and sue. I am a Florida resident and our governor is spot on. The schools should not be teaching sexuality of any form in K-3rd grade period. The alphabet people are way out of line here.

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