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The Republicans continue to amaze me their venom against anything LGBTQ+, now they are banning books on gay penguins!

Florida schools ban book about gay penguins in reaction to Don’t Say Gay law
Schools are banning innocuous books about LGBTQ+ people to comply with the anti-LGBTQ+ law.
LGBTQ Nation
By Alex Bollinger
January 6, 2023


In the wake of Florida’s Don’t Say Gay law, schools in the state are banning books with LGBTQ+ themes, including And Tango Makes Three, a book about a baby penguin named Tango who has two dads.

The Don’t Say Gay law, also known as the Parental Rights in Education Act, was signed into law last year by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and bans discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in grades K through 3 and restricts such discussions in older grades.

Conservatives said the bill was necessary to stop sexual discussions in schools as well as instruction about sex and that the law wasn’t anti-LGBTQ+. The DeSantis administration called opponents of the bill “groomers,” another word for child sex abusers.

But it turns out that the bill is doing what opponents said it would do: making LGBTQ+ people a taboo topic in schools.

They want to force us back in the closet, think about what it is teaching the student about LGBTQ students? Think about what it is doing to LGBTQ student?

It is the Republicans who are the groomers, the grooming to create bigotry against anyone who is different.

Seminole County Public Schools banned three books citing the Don’t Say Gay law. The books were 10,000 Dresses (about a boy with a dream of making dresses), I am Jazz (about the experiences of trans activist Jazz Jennings), and Jacob’s New Dress (about a boy who wants to wear a dress to school).

None of the books contain sexual content, but the district said they, “pursuant to the aforementioned statute [the Don’t Say Gay law], would be deemed as not being age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in kindergarten through grade 3.” They were removed from district libraries and “will only be available for check-out to a student in grade 4 or 5 when the parent has provided written consent and picks up the book from the principal or designee at the school.”

Can you imagine you as a sixth grader having to get a letter from your parents and then go to the principal’s office to get the book? How many students would do that?

The Republicans are all about “Freedom” as long as you want the same thing as they do… oppress minorities.