{"id":78553,"date":"2022-03-10T16:31:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T22:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=78553"},"modified":"2022-03-10T16:33:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T22:33:07","slug":"78553","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=78553","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The law requires school districts to adopt procedures that &#8220;reinforce the fundamental right of parents to make decisions regarding the upbringing and control of their children.&#8221; <strong>It prohibits classroom instruction \u2013 not casual discussion \u2013 on &#8220;sexual orientation&#8221; and &#8220;gender identity&#8221; with children in third grade or younger, &#8220;<\/strong>or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>It prohibits classroom instruction \u2013 not casual discussion \u2013 on &#8220;sexual orientation&#8221; and &#8220;gender identity&#8221; with children in<strong> third grade or younger (that&#8217;s 5 to 8 year old kids)\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>You know what that means, right? Florida parents found out that <del>schools<\/del> proggie indoctrination centers had <del>teachers<\/del> pedophile groomers teaching kindergarten through third grade students about &#8216;transgenderism&#8217;, homosexuality, pornography, and sexual degeneracy in the classroom, and telling the kids not to tell their parents.<\/p>\n<p>and what does Peppermint Psaki have to say about it?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">White House Press Sec. Jen Psaki on Florida bill that bans lessons about sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through grade 3: <\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#39;s discriminatory. It&#39;s a form of bullying. It is horrific.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HIgZKsgeal\">pic.twitter.com\/HIgZKsgeal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Breaking911 (@Breaking911) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Breaking911\/status\/1501633884252999683?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10598549\/Floridas-parental-rights-bill-NOT-Dont-Say-Gay-bill-writes-BETHANY-MANDEL.html\">Florida\u2019s parental rights bill is <em>not<\/em>\u00a0a \u2018Don\u2019t Say Gay\u2019 bill. It is a full-throated defense of moms and dads against the state-sponsored progressive brainwashing of their kids<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pf-candidate\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<p>On March 8,\u00a0Florida&#8217;s Republican-controlled state legislature passed the Parental Rights in Education bill.<\/p>\n<p>But you may know it better by the media&#8217;s smear name, &#8216;The Don&#8217;t Say Gay Bill.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a measure that gives parents more control over what their children are taught in public schools.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not how the White House, Democrats, Hollywood and the media portrayed it.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, they completely mischaracterized it.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden called an early version of the bill &#8216;hateful.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg claimed it will increase suicides among LGBTQ+ youth.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday&#8217;s episode of &#8216;Watch What Happens Live&#8217; Bravo host Andy Cohen called the bill&#8217;s passage &#8216;personally disturbing,&#8217; and told Florida Republicans that they&#8217;re pretending to solve a problem that doesn&#8217;t exist.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This is one big dog whistle. You&#8217;re scaring people into spewing hate and discrimination at the LGBTQ community,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the White House doubled down again.\u00a0 Press Secretary Jen Psaki called the bill &#8216;discriminatory,&#8217; &#8216;horrific,&#8217; and &#8216;a form of bullying&#8217; against LGBTQ children and families.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">On the eve of the bill&#8217;s passage, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (who is now expected to sign the bill into law) confronted a local reporter, who framed the legislation as anti-gay.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8216;I want to ask about the Parental Rights in Education, what critics call the &#8216;Don&#8217;t Say Gay&#8217; bill,&#8217; said Evan Donovan.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis was having none of it, and snapped, &#8216;Does it say that in the bill? You are pushing false narratives\u2026&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>So does the bill prohibit teachers&#8217; from saying the word &#8216;gay&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>In a word \u2013 no!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"pf-candidate\" data-pf_style_display=\"block\" data-pf_style_visibility=\"visible\">\n<p>The legislative text of the House version of the bill reads, &#8216;Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>It not does ban words or even causal discussion of gender issues.<\/p>\n<p>But it does remove gender and sexual orientation issues from the formal curriculum for five, six and seven-year-olds, and mandates that instruction for older children is age and developmentally appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>The reality is DeSantis, and millions of other parents like him, don&#8217;t think it appropriate to talk about sexuality with very young children.<\/p>\n<p>And the bill also does more than that &#8212; it prohibits schools from withholding information from parents about their children&#8217;s education and mental health, unless notification presents a threat to the child&#8217;s safety.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d think that&#8217;s a given. You&#8217;d think wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Education of children in radical gender ideology is taking place in public facilities across the country<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the Heritage Foundation hosted an event titled, &#8216;How radical gender ideology is taking over public schools and harming kids.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>One of the speakers was Abigail Martinez &#8212; a mother of four from California, originally from El Salvador.<\/p>\n<p>The reality is DeSantis, and millions of other parents like him, don&#8217;t think it appropriate to talk about sexuality with very young children. (Above)\u00a0DeSantis speaks during the welcome segment of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, U.S. February 26, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>She shared \u2013- for the first time &#8212; the utterly heartbreaking story of the suicide of her daughter Yaeli.<\/p>\n<p>According to Martinez, Yaeli was a happy &#8216;girlie girl&#8217; through her early childhood. She loved singing and dancing and wearing princess dresses.<\/p>\n<p>But in her teenage years, she began to exhibit signs of depression.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez informed the school and sought their help \u2013 something she now regrets.<\/p>\n<p>Yaeli allegedly became convinced, thanks in part to school psychologists, that she was a boy.<\/p>\n<p>Yaeli wanted to be called Andrew, which her mother allowed. But the change did not give her daughter the happiness she sought.<\/p>\n<p>After an attempted suicide, Yaeli (now Andrew) ran away.<\/p>\n<p>School officials told social services that Andrew would be &#8216;better off out of the house&#8217; and she was placed in foster care at 16-years-old, said Martinez.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When I went to court, I asked the judge to please let my daughter have a psych evaluation,&#8217; Martinez explained.<\/p>\n<p>The school social worker insisted that she needed to be affirmed as transgender, and so, the judge denied Martinez&#8217;s request.<\/p>\n<p>In September of 2019, Yaeli would commit suicide by kneeling in front of an oncoming train.<\/p>\n<p>It was her mother, Abigail, who was left to bury the literal pieces of her daughter and live every day with the loss.<\/p>\n<p>Not the school social worker, not the principal, not the judge, not her teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Tragically Abigail&#8217;s story is extreme but not unique.<\/p>\n<p>Also speaking at Heritage was a Florida mom, January Littlejohn, who shared the story of her daughter&#8217;s run-in with gender ideology.<\/p>\n<p>January and her husband Jeffrey Littlejohn from Tallahassee, Florida, have filed a suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida in October of last year.<\/p>\n<p>They are seeking to &#8216;vindicate their fundamental rights to direct the upbringing of their children&#8217; after Deerlake Middle School failed to notify them that their 13-year-old daughter had entered a school-sanctioned gender transition plan without their consent.<\/p>\n<p>This is exactly the kind of situation the Parental Rights in Education bill would prevent.<\/p>\n<p>How could schools possibly think it&#8217;s their role to teach this kind of content to children?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s very simple: They think that isn&#8217;t just their duty, but their right.<\/p>\n<p>The backlash against the Parental Rights in Education Bill is a repeat of the critical race theory debates that first embroiled school boards across the country last year.<\/p>\n<p>Parents were told they had no right to oversight over their children&#8217;s curriculum. They weren&#8217;t entitled to a say.<\/p>\n<p>During a debate between Terry McAuliffe and Glenn Youngkin in October when both were vying for the governorship of Virginia, Youngkin said to McAuliffe, &#8216;You believe school systems should tell children what to do. I believe parents should be in charge of their kids&#8217; education.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>In response, McAuliffe said, &#8216;I don&#8217;t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Youngkin&#8217;s message resonated with Virginia parents, and they elected him Governor over the favored Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>The woke assault on childhood innocence in American classrooms is occurring nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>In November in Virginia, parents reasserted their rights to have a say about what their own children were learning in classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>In Florida, lawmakers saw what their constituents wanted. It wasn&#8217;t a &#8216;don&#8217;t say gay&#8217; bill, it was a full-throated defense of parent&#8217;s rights.<\/p>\n<p>It was a winning political issue in Virginia, and it will play out similarly in elections nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Parents see the kind of radical ideology progressives are trying to brainwash their children with and those who are willing to stand up against it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The law requires school districts to adopt procedures that &#8220;reinforce the fundamental right of parents to make decisions regarding the upbringing and control of their children.&#8221; It prohibits classroom instruction \u2013 not casual discussion \u2013 on &#8220;sexual orientation&#8221; and &#8220;gender identity&#8221; with children in third grade or younger, &#8220;or in a manner that is not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=78553\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,9,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-schools","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78556,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78553\/revisions\/78556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}