That’s right, ban straight sexual relationships and cisgender gender norms from school materials, too. Instead of entering into a sprawling, endless culture war over books, we’ve come up with a simple way for Floridians to resolve this bit of legislative hypocrisy: ban it all. That does seem to indicate that cultural material doesn’t influence sexuality or gender in the way our friends in Florida think it does, but that’s neither here nor there.
Now, the fact is that many people exist who are not straight or not cisgender despite being constantly exposed to literature that reinforces these defaults. Maybe they didn’t take into account that simply being social defaults doesn’t exempt heterosexuality or a cisgender identity from their proper categorizations. Sorry, we literally don’t make the rules here: Florida Gov. By the “Don’t say gay” bill’s own logic - and language - that material is equally guilty of indoctrination. There’s a massive amount of curriculum featuring both. The thing is, heterosexuality is a sexual orientation and being cisgender is a gender identity. The law targets the youngest students in kindergarten through third grade classrooms, but also includes a pretty broad clause that prohibits the teaching of gender identity and sexual orientation “in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.” It then empowers parents to sue schools that violate their ideas on what that constitutes.
Given the politics of its backers - Republicans, one and all - and the un-ironic use of phrases like “woke gender ideology,” the critics are almost surely right. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.If you’re an American with a pulse, you’re surely aware that Florida just passed a controversial bill that would prohibit schoolteachers from “classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity.” Critics of the bill say it is targeted at the LGBTQ+ community, painting innocuous descriptions of queer love or the simple experience of being trans as indoctrination. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are:
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