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Sun Sentinel: Clear Winner in Florida Is Teachers Who Will Be Allowed to Talk About Same-Sex Spouses

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I wrote earlier this week in a VIP post about how the AP reported on a settlement in a lawsuit brought against Florida's Parental Rights in Education law. The plaintiffs agreed to drop their suit after the following settlement as reported on by the Associated Press:

Under the terms of the settlement, the Florida Board of Education will send instructions to every school district saying the Florida law doesn’t prohibit discussing LGBTQ+ people, nor prevent anti-bullying rules on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity or disallow Gay-Straight Alliance groups. The settlement also spells out that the law is neutral — meaning what applies to LGBTQ+ people also applies to heterosexual people — and that it doesn’t apply to library books not being used for instruction in the classroom.

Gov. Ron DeSantis declared the settlement a win, but the Miami Herald didn't see it that way. They reported that DeSantis' "homophobic law" didn't survive its court challenge. That's a flat-out lie. The Parental Rights in Education law remained exactly as written, without a word added or changed. The law, which never banned any of the activities mentioned above, is completely intact, meaning that teachers can't lead instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity. This was originally limited to kindergarten through third grade (which I think was smart), but it's since been expanded to all grades. The only thing the law banned was teachers leading class discussions on "the gender unicorn" in second grade. The settlement just means the board of education will send out instructions to teachers and administrators who didn't have the reading comprehension to know what the law actually said. It never banned Gay-Straight Alliance groups or prohibited discussing LGBTQ people. Yes, even under the "Don't Say Gay" law, you were allowed to say gay in the classroom.

I don't know why they're just getting around to it now, but the Sun Sentinel has published an opinion piece saying the real winners in the settlement are the teachers who have "secured the right" to talk about their same-sex spouses.

They couldn't secure a right that was never taken away. It's just that now they'll get an instruction sheet.

The editorial declared it a "compromise."

That's it in a nutshell. Kindergarten teachers can't lead class discussions on how doctors guess a baby's gender when it's born and sometimes get it wrong. Instruction time won't include discussions about gender identity. Teachers basically just have to teach what they're being paid to teach. The fact that they were hysterical about it is on them.

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