TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) -- The Florida Board of Education has voted to expand restrictions on classroom instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity.
"This amendment prohibits classroom instruction to students in pre-kindergarten through Grade 3 on sexual orientation or gender identity. For Grades 4 through 12, instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity is prohibited unless such instruction is either expressly required by state academic standards ... or is part of a reproductive health course or health lesson for which a student’s parent has the option to have his or her student not attend," according to the amendment.
Critics of these restrictions argue that"everyone has a sexual orientation and a gender identity. It looks like this rule would make it impossible to do much instruction at all," Laura McGinnis, of the LGBTQ advocacy group PFLAG, previously told ABC News. Woke is defined by the DeSantis administration as"the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them," according to DeSantis' general counsel, as reported by The Washington Post.Critics argued that the bill will censor speech and stop people from talking about their identities due to its vague descriptions on"instruction" and"gender identity and sexual orientation.
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