Florida governor Ron DeSantis claims trans issues are ‘injected’ into classrooms
Florida governor Ron DeSantis addresses the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty) Governor Ron DeSantis has claimed trans issues are being “injected” into classrooms while seemingly showing support for Florida’s reviled “Don’t Say Gay” bill. House Bill 1557 (HB 1557), dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, would ban schools from “encouraging classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in primary grade levels” or at any level if the discussion is “not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students”. The proposed legislation has been met...