February 15, 2025

Florida’s DeSantis indications Parental Rights in Training invoice, hits back at Hollywood critics

Florida’s DeSantis indications Parental Rights in Training invoice, hits back at Hollywood critics

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into legislation Monday a parental rights bill that bans instructors from supplying classroom instruction on “sexual orientation” or “gender identification” in kindergarten by 3rd quality.

“In Florida, we not only know that parents have a correct to be associated, we insist that mothers and fathers have a ideal to be included,” DeSantis mentioned at a press conference at the Classical Preparatory School in Spring Hill, Florida.

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In this photo from Feb. 24, 2022, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis delivers remarks at the 2022 CPAC conference at the Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando.

In this picture from Feb. 24, 2022, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis provides remarks at the 2022 CPAC meeting at the Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando.
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The Parental Legal rights in Training bill, which passed the Republican-managed state legislature this thirty day period, has been dubbed the “Do not Say Homosexual” invoice by Democrats who misleadingly claim it bans any dialogue pertaining to becoming gay in Florida educational facilities. 

The monthly bill was mocked at the Oscars Sunday evening, with co-hosts Wanda Sykes, Amy Schumer and Regina Hall repeating the phrase “homosexual” as the group applauded.

DeSantis hit back at his critics in Hollywood, stating, “If the people today who held up degenerates like Harvey Weinstein as exemplars and as heroes and as all that, if people are the sorts of individuals that are opposing us on parents’ rights, I put on that like a badge of honor.”

“They really don’t want to confess that they assistance a great deal of the factors that we are delivering protections in opposition to,” he stated. 

“For case in point, they assist sexualizing little ones in kindergarten. They assistance injecting woke gender ideology into second quality school rooms. … And so what they’re accomplishing with these slogans and these narratives is they are making an attempt to camouflage their true intentions.”

President Biden termed it a “hateful monthly bill” in a tweet past thirty day period.

But absent from a great deal of the discussion around the invoice are the actual contents of the legislation.

The bill does prohibit classroom instruction on “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” with youngsters in 3rd quality or younger, “or in a fashion that is not age-appropriate or developmentally ideal for students in accordance with condition benchmarks.”

The invoice does not ban the term “homosexual” in university configurations, and it does not ban informal discussions of subjects relating to sexual orientation and gender identification in the classroom.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks about the firefighting effort and available assistance for Bay County during a press conference on March 6, 2022, in Panama City, Florida.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks about the firefighting effort and readily available help for Bay County during a press conference on March 6, 2022, in Panama Metropolis, Florida.
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DeSantis spokeswoman Christina Pushaw stated in a statement previously Monday that the governor is unfazed by threats of boycotts in opposition to the point out over the bill.

“Many of the vacationers in Florida have frequented us from states with mandates and constraints, to get pleasure from the freedoms and sense of normalcy that Florida has grow to be renowned for, under Gov, DeSantis‘ leadership,” she wrote. “Business enterprise is flourishing in this article as properly, since the governor has saved our point out open, and our tax burden stays the most affordable in the state.

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“These are factors that every person can appreciate, no matter of their gender or sexual orientation,” she included. “For that reason, we are not concerned about boycotts or other financial damage to Florida as a consequence of any legislation. But even if we were: no sum of revenue would encourage Governor DeSantis to improve his situation. He will normally stand for parental legal rights and protecting youngsters.”