ABOVE VIDEO: Governor Ron DeSantis signed the Let Children Be Children invoice package deal to guard Florida’s kids from everlasting mutilating surgical procedures, gender id politics in faculties, and attending sexually specific grownup performances.
TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA – Governor Ron DeSantis signed the Let Children Be Children invoice package deal to guard Florida’s kids from everlasting mutilating surgical procedures, gender id politics in faculties, and attending sexually specific grownup performances.
“Florida is proud to prepared the ground in standing up for our kids,” mentioned Governor Ron DeSantis. “Because the world goes mad, Florida represents a refuge of sanity and a citadel of normalcy.”
“Thanks to Governor Ron DeSantis for persevering with to implement laws to maintain our college students protected and our faculties centered on training, not indoctrination,” mentioned Commissioner of Training Manny Diaz, Jr. “At the moment’s actions make it clear – educators in Florida are anticipated to show our requirements, and never interject their very own opinions or worldview into the classroom. The Division will stay centered on instructing college students core topics, relatively than woke gender ideology or inappropriate matters.”
“Thanks Governor DeSantis for signing laws that protects our kids,” mentioned Company for Well being Care Administration Secretary Jason Weida. “Florida is following the science to raise our requirements of care to guard youngsters from dangerous medicine and surgical procedures.”
SB 254 – Therapies for Intercourse Reassignment:
➜ Prohibits intercourse reassignment surgical procedures and experimental puberty blockers for youngsters.
➜ Requires grownup sufferers who’re receiving these medicines or surgical procedures to be told concerning the risks and irreversible nature of those procedures and to provide written, knowledgeable consent.
➜ Supplies courts non permanent emergency jurisdiction to step in and halt intercourse reassignment procedures for out-of-state kids current in Florida.
➜ Creates a pathway for people to acquire damages after they have been injured or killed after receiving intercourse reassignment surgical procedures or medicines as minors.
HB 1069 protects college students from having to declare their pronouns at school. Moreover, this invoice expands parental rights in training by prohibiting classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender id in Pre-Ok by eighth grade.
HB 1438 protects kids from sexually specific performances in all venues. This invoice prohibits an individual from knowingly admitting a minor to an grownup efficiency. Moreover, this laws authorizes the Division of Enterprise and Skilled Regulation to tremendous, droop, or revoke the working or alcohol licenses of motels or eating places in the event that they admit a toddler into an grownup efficiency.
HB 1521 ensures that Florida’s bogs, altering rooms, and locker rooms are protected locations for girls. The invoice requires instructional establishments, detention services, correctional establishments, juvenile correctional services, and public buildings with a restroom or altering facility to designate separate services based mostly on organic intercourse or to offer one-person unisex services.
The Governor additionally signed laws to guard youth sports activities in Florida and be certain that all college students can play sports activities with out interference from extremist bureaucratic boards. HB 225 permits personal faculty, digital faculty, and residential faculty college students to take part in sports activities and different extracurricular actions at different public or personal faculties, no matter zip code.
HB 225 additionally reorganizes the FHSAA Board of Administrators to 13 members, as an alternative of the present 16 members. 4 members might be elected by faculty consultant members whereas eight members might be appointed by the governor, and the ultimate member would be the Commissioner of Training or his designee. This invoice additionally permits groups to offer transient opening remarks, together with prayers, earlier than highschool athletic contests.