Florida just passed a law that prohibits teachers in primary schools from mentioning anything about sexual orientation or gender identity. Its actual name is "The parental rights in education bill." It was seen as "unconstitutional" and "wrong" By people all around the U.S. However, people seem to misunderstand what the true meaning of the bill is. The parental rights in education bill, more commonly known as the "don't say gay law," was made so children wouldn't be taught much about genders or sexual preferences up until the fourth grade. And even then, teachers can only talk about sexual orientation or gender identity, or even transgender if it's deemed appropriate. However, people believe that this bill is "homophobic," "transphobic" because the people that schools are trying to limit people's understanding of the LGBTQ or the trans community. It's not a well-constructed bill as there are many flaws to this law; for example, what if a teacher mentions what she and her wife did over summer break. Will that count as "breaking the law"? Or what if a child mentions that they have two dads or moms?. Does that break the law?. I personally believe that children that young shouldn't be taught anything about sexual orientations or genders. They're too young to fully understand it and should talk to their parents about it if they want to understand what kind of different sexual preferences are. NBC News wrote about this matter and had some pretty good information about this new law and how people feel about it. They first say, "HB 1557 contains a crucial provision that may seem harmless on its face, but it undermines the fundamental free speech". This is pretty interesting as this new law is put into question. Does it mess with people's freedom of speech?. People are rather mixed on this matter, some saying yes and others saying no. I'm personally somewhat in between. I do believe that kids that young shouldn't have to worry about that kind of stuff and that they should learn it when they're older.
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