>> Got a bit of breaking news out of Florida in the last hour, the state's governor
Ron DeSantis, signed the controversial parental rights in education bill. This
new law dubbed the don't say gay bill by its opponents, bans classroom instruction
on sexual orientation or gender identity in the Kindergarten through the third grade.
The White House has denounced the law, which would also ban any instruction that is deemed
not age appropriate for any primary school grade level. The law empowers parents to sue
school districts for alleged violations. >> On March 28, Ron DeSantis signed the
don't say gay bill in Florida, this bill will prevent teachers in schools
from talking about queer folks to children in grade three and under at risk of being sued.
Even if the child asks, even if the child has same sex parents,
even if the teachers themselves are gay, make no mistake about it, this is a way to defund schools.
Teachers are gonna be in constant fear of saying the wrong thing or for saying the truthful thing
and having parents go after them to sue them.
This will have a chilling effect on freedom of speech, what really got to me was seeing those
kids proudly holding up those signs in front of the camera, while their parents looked on with
approval. I understand what it's like you wanna get that approval from your parents,
as a child I grew up in a very conservative household.
My stepfather, he wasn't a good person despite that, I still wanted to make him proud, I was
fortunate that by the time I got to high school, he was no longer in my life.
That's when I started to question my own gender, I remember wondering if
this is what it meant to be a woman, that what I'm feeling, is this what women feel like?
Because I didn't feel like a man, but I also didn't quite feel like a woman
and at that time there wasn't the language of non binary, that didn't even seem like an option.
So since I present female and biologically I was assigned female, obviously I must be a girl
so, I played the role, I wasn't harassed for it, I wasn't picked on for it.
Because, I still fit in with everyone else, for the most part I was an outsider for other reasons
and when it came down to it, no one wanted to start stuff with me because
they knew I wouldn't hit like a girl. And I was again fortunate that with my mom,
I could be open about my sexuality, I told her that my preference was for boys,
but I hadn't ruled out dating girls and turns out that was very true.
If I had known back then the term non binary, If I could have sorted that out,
it would have helped me understand myself better. It would have made me feel more like who I am and
I just thought this is such a great age for kids, because they'll be able to figure this out sooner.
And instead of embracing it, people have become more vile with their hate attacking us, accusing
us of grooming children into being gay or worse. Mississippi gubernatorial candidate, Robert Foster
tweeted this out, some of you all still wanna try and find political compromise with those that
wanna groom our school aged children and pretend men are women etcetera.
I think they need to be lined up against the wall before a firing squad and be sent to an
early judgment, why how does the existence of people he will never meet threaten him
so much? He thinks we need to be shot, twitter has since taken down this tweet because apparently
calling for the murder of people goes against their terms of service.
This isn't the only time he has expressed these feelings and yet there's not enough pushback
against him to make him stop or to make it socially unacceptable to say these things.
We are being threatened with being murdered and yet they're calling us the threats,
the children are watching.
They see this behavior from the adults around them and I go back to that video seeing the children
wanting to make their parents proud. And I know there's a good chance that,
one of them or some of the children watching that video are gay and they don't understand it now.
But there will come a time in their life when they start to question their own sexuality,
when they start to question their own gender.
And all they will remember is how their parents looked at them in that moment
and they won't wanna disappoint their parents by telling them this.
They'll remember that somehow being gay or being transgender is so bad that they had to
make a law so you couldn't talk about it. They'll feel like there's no one they can turn to because
they might get in trouble if they acknowledge it. They're gonna think that they were born wrong or
that there's something fundamentally wrong with them, when it's the people who made these bills.
That have something very wrong with them LGBTQ+ children all ready face
higher rates of attempted suicide and suicide than other children. This bill,
seeing adults talk about how they should be murdered, will only make it worse,
children will die because of this. I know what it's like to have thoughts of suicide
and I know what it's like to act on those thoughts,
what I felt in those moments, I don't want these kids to go through the same thing.
We have to keep fighting, the scientist Foster unlike them,
I actually care about the well being of children, better futures should await the next generations.
Don't stay quiet, say it loud, I am queer, I am non binary and I am happy with who I am.
And when it comes to people like the scientist and Foster, I know
them far stronger than they could ever be, this has been rebel HQ, I'm Sandee Lovas.
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