ABC News’ Victor Oquendo breaks down the Florida bill that would limit discussions of sexual orientation or gender identity in the state’s schools, and the growing pushback against it.
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This bill is NOT about protecting other gender orientations. Get a grip! The overall responsibility for teaching and training small children,,,, wait for it,,,,, wait for it,,,, belong to the parents. Exposing children to these issues to children is an affront to parent's rights. There is a saying, "One's rights ends, where another begins". One of the major, serious character flaws of the left, they have ZERO respect for the rights for those disagree with them.
Don't Say Gay Is A Movement In Germany, That Started With "Don't Say Jew". Don't Have Other Culture Than Ours.
I love this bill. Awesome bill! Should be in ever state.
GAYYYYYYYYY 🤣🤪🙃
My grand daughter to me ‘ China wants to kill trump, then they are old enough to learn about about GAY!
Every in this comment section does realize that this goes against freedom of speech. Also teachers don’t tell parents about those conversations because they don’t know what kind of household that kid is in that kid could DIE or be ABANDONED because they say something about possibly being trans
It’s okay for teachers to be out. It causes no harm 🇺🇸🏳️🌈
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Children who have parents of the same gender won’t be able to talk about their parents 🤦🏽♂️ y’all want that?
Y’all heteros be forcing on heteronormative tendencies to your kids and y’all being against schools teaching kids how to be open minded. Being taught about sexual orientation does not make you convert 💀
Again, ABC and white house peddling lies, in the open, with no shame. There is 0, ZERO reference to LGBTQIEGSCDOM<:M@#$!^$&^%*&^@#! in the bill, it is a bill that reinforces the decision making of parents regarding the education of their children an opens for litigation actions from schools/teachers without informing and the consent of their parents.
I'm just as gay as that clown – Mayor Pete… so if any of you are gonna start crying " homophobe" save it, I've been eating c** since the 90's. What I am not is a liar and a corrupt ideolog.
Read the bill lazy b*tches
It’s not controversial, it’s fascism. The people who made this bill shoulda been scraped out of the wombs that birthed them.
Just stop teaching kids religious crap. Then the world would be a far better place
"The bill does not define what is age appropriate"….Really? The basic notion that somr things are ok for kids and others not hit you for the first time? Then you are a danger to society and kids .
I support this bill and hope other states do the same. Pushing LGBTQ in schools infringes on religious beliefs and violates rights with the parents in general.
Gov Disaster is pushing the “Don’t Say Gay” Bill. Me thinks Ron is a latent Gay man, afraid of his longing desire to be held by Little Richard.
Ron, it’s ok. America isn’t in the 50’s any more. ‘“Come out, come out, wherever yo are!!”
Randy Rainbow should write a song for you.
Teachers dont need to be talking to kids about sexuality in first place!
The majority support this
I’m sorry but the whole of the politicized discussion and division surrounding this issue is just so ignorant. It is incredibly unfortunate that politicians not only have control over the education legislation but also the narratives which define and divide the public on matters of policy. We have so much scientific knowledge about human development, especially early-childhood development, and to anyone with even the most basic knowledge of how children’s brains function, it is clear that this ‘issue’ is actually about the adults and not the children. A child is not going to think of themselves or their peers or anyone else in their lives as a sexual being/object because a child’s cognition doesn’t begin to develop adult like sexuality until puberty begins. Adults need to stop sexualizing children. That’s upsetting, I know, but that’s the issue at heart here.
Just another example why
diversity jack diver America America is a majority rule not the tiny mentally ill groups thinking gender is optional
Bruh wtf ??
Sooo saying gay is a crime now. That's so gay🤣😭
Yes
ABC, I don't seem to be able to find your link to the actual legislation. It would be a good idea to share this as the source of your characterisation of the issue so we can compare what you're saying with the actual documentation so that we can make up our own minds.
You people are sick! Why are grown people so concerned about the sexual orientation of kids?
I agree with Desantis, seems 100% logical.
First off, does ABC every lead a segment regarding a bill on the left with the opposition title? No, they do not. The progressive identity cult can't push their identity dogma on kids in school. The horror!!! Teachers may actually have to teach core subjects and do their job. This bill does not stop anyone from talking about being gay and such.
Disgraceful. The Republikunts are sadistic, children hating monsters!
There shouldn’t be any discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity to students at all. Good job, Florida!!
It’s getting really hard to be a teacher in this day in age
WOW !!! THIS IS SO WAY FAR OUT BEYOND FUCKN STUPID & IDIOTIC RIDICULOUS DUMB !!!!! THAT EVEN ABSURD !!!! – DOESN’T CUT IT. BUT & YET, AT THE SAME TIME, IT CAN BE & ACTUALLY IS FUCKN GREAT !!!
BECAUSE NOW, WE ALL CAN CALL ALL OF THOSE OR WHAT EXACTLY THEY ARE DOING FOR WHAT THEY & THAT REALLY & TRULY IN BY THE FACT & OFFICIALLY ARE OR DO & IS ACTUALLY NAMED OR LITERALLY WORDED & CALLED – SO THUS LET US EACH & EVERY ONE SAY THESE WORDS CALLING IT & “THEM ALL” -FUCKN PEDERASTS !!!!!! YAYYY !!!
or PERHAPS EVEN & BETTER YET …
HUMAN MOST GROSSEST WORST ABOMINATIONS – ASS-FUCKERS !!!!
The levels of bigotry, homophobia, racism, and other kinds of hatred in the Republican Party and the GQP is absolutely disgusting.
The bill does not go nearly far enough. The alphabet behavioral choices should be re-criminalized.
Florida needs to spend more time educating your students than worrying about if they say "gay" or not-We have a much bigger failure of the school system with uneducated students and under paid teachers than anything else
GO FLORIDA GO!
Omg…. I don't agree with this bill but to me the worst thing is the name! It's name is more offensive and traumatic than anything. Don't say gay? Wtf
I have known that I was gay and had romantic feelings for the same sex since I was 4 years old. These feelings weren't sexual but of pure and innocent love. Out of fear of none acceptance and being bullied by the misguided I kept my feelings within and in turn grew up up with an immense amount of dissociative anxiety and self-esteem issues. It is terrifying to know that we are headed in a direction where legally we cannot express our true selves or help others struggling with expression and acceptance. This is a freedom that is granted to heterosexuals and it is unjust to discriminate on any other human in the United States just trying to be themselves. I want any human who is reading this who identifies with being LGBTQI+ or anyone struggling with just being themselves due to the cowardly and misguided bullies who project their own hate and insecurities onto others, that I love you and I also love the misguided for they do not know what they do. We must continue to share our story and love who we are. Our differences make us unique and strong. We must continue this fight for our health and safety.- Peace and Love
Anybody actually read it ? It’s 4 pages ! They could easily display it in a 4 minute video , but don’t ! So maybe read it yourself before assuming it’s a step before concentration camps !
Honestly, I remember being in second or third grade and thinking I knew what people meant when they said “gay”. I used it in a very inappropriate way and learned quickly what it meant. I said this guy named Chris looked gay… thinking it just meant like girly because he had on a girls headband… I opened a whole can of worms at like seven years old. I wish someone had gone through these things with me.
Well, just fucking burn down all the heterosexual supremacist churches!
Fine, ban the discussion of LGBTQ+ issues in school because it's not "age appropriate." But apply that same logic to heterosexuality as well. Make any discussions of it in classrooms taboo outside of biology and literature. If protecting children from sexual topics is really the goal, then there are no objections to raise against this.
Gotta love people attacking each other for having different opinions. I had a good laugh with the comments section but in alll seriousness people who attack each other for having an opinion really need to re-evaluate their life decisions
(I support the Flordia bill)
W Florida
There is no such thing as a LGBTQ 5 year old.
Why do you need to "explain" same sex parents to a 5 year old child?
All the media does is lie. Their description of the bill doesn't reflect reality.
No child is born in the wrong body. Any ideology that suggests they can be born wrong and need lifelong harmful unnecessary surgeries and synthetic hormones with irreversible side effects, shouldn't be taught in schools. Teaching and normalizing the ideology of "born in the wrong body" and "gender identity" is no different than teaching, affirming, and normalizing eating disorders,cutting,and other selfharming behaviors to kids through the school system.