The Florida House is taking up the controversial “Don’t Say Gay” Bill.
The measure targets discussion of anything related to the LGBTQ+ community in some primary school grades.
The latest addition to the bill now states that schools are required to tell parents if their child comes out to a school employee.
Schools would have six weeks to notify the parents.
“Unfortunately, the warnings of the harm done, both risking the mental and physical well-being of LGBTQ students, as well as taking away our constitutional rights of freedom of speech, appear to have fallen on deaf ears,” said Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried. “Now, this looks to be another dark day here in the Florida Capitol.”
This bill is still making its way through Senate hearings.
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