More than half of LGBTQ parents in Florida say they are considering leaving the state

[Eugene]

Related: Impact of HB 1557 (Florida’s Don’t Say Gay Bill) on LGBTQ+ Parents in Florida (Williams Institute)

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Source: The Hill

More than half of LGBTQ parents in Florida say they are considering leaving the state

BY BROOKE MIGDON - 01/24/23 1:58 PM ET

More than half of LGBTQ parents in Florida are considering moving their families to another state over concerns that a new Florida education law – known to its critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” law – stigmatizes LGBTQ identities and creates a hostile learning environment for LGBTQ children or students with LGBTQ family members.

In a report issued Tuesday by the Williams Institute, a public policy research institute based at the UCLA of Law, and Clark University in Massachusetts, 56 percent of LGBTQ parents surveyed said they were considering leaving Florida over concerns about how the new law may impact their children and family. Another 17 percent said they had already taken steps to do so.

“I am terrified that I would need to make the decision to leave Florida and leave my parents,” one respondent said. “The idea of having to leave to protect my child and my partner is scary but one I am willing to do.”

The new law, officially titled the “Parental Rights in Education” law, bars public kindergarten through third grade teachers from engaging in classroom instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity – subjects the measure’s proponents in the state legislature last year argued are inappropriate for young students.

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Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3828490-more-than-half-of-lgbtq-parents-in-florida-say-they-are-considering-leaving-the-state/

[dem4decades]

1. All people with kids in school should leave that state.

[Skittles]

2. YES

girls, for example, are certainly second-class citizens now

[AllaN01Bear]

3. always been

[Skittles]

5. true, dat

and I have long felt that misogyny is at the root of most homophobia

[SoCalDavidS]

4. They're Welcome Here In CA

Let Floriduh go Full MAGA.

[ShazzieB]

6. Well, this doesn't surprise me at all.

Not one little teeny tiny bit.

[TreasonousBastard]

7. I am not gay, and have no gay kids. But...

This now the 21 first century and anyone making a big deal out of it should maybe be shot. Target practice for the nutcases out there.

That may be a little extreme, so just sentence them to a week in a gay bathouse. Just the thing fo the bigots out there.

[lambchopp59]

8. That might just do it.

Okay, a little personal reveal here.. in my 20's, long ago and far away.
Making discovery that the most pent-up, sometimes drop dead gorgeous but shudderingly hypocritical MF'ers would frequent the bath houses. Get their jollies then...
Go pray it all away in some church house and go right back to projecting how much they hated the "fags".
Once I met my other half (not there, btw) no more desire to visit such places-- partially because of that epiphany.
But if the sort had to spend a week---hmm! They'd have to discover the real persons they've been using then demonizing.

[yankee87]

9. Be careful till you do

Please be careful until you leave. Deathsantis is going to say and do worse things to ramp up the MAGA morons and try to coopt anyone from being to right for 2024.