Despite national outrage and threats from powerful companies like Disney, on Monday, Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the infamous "don't say gay" bill.
Proponents of the law continue to pretend that its limitations are narrow and only prohibit "teaching" young kids about sexuality. In reality, however, the bill is so broad and vague that it will likely be used to bully teachers and students from being out or acknowledging the existence of LGBTQ people. Contrary to claims that the law "only" impacts the lower elementary grades, as Mark Joseph Stern at Slate points out, it's worded in such a way as to allow parents to sue high school teachers for, say, allowing students to form a Gay-Straight Alliance. Indeed, the impetus of the law was a case where parents wanted to sue the school for accepting a teenager's gender identity.
