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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alex Woodward

Trump-appointed judge presiding over Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ lawsuit defended state’s same-sex marriage ban

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A group of Florida advocates, LGBT+ students and their families have filed a federal lawsuit against the state’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis and school officials to block the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law signed into law this week.

The 80-page complaint filed in US District Court on 31 March argues that the law provokes an unconstitutional attempt to “to stigmatize, silence, and erase LGBTQ people in Florida’s public schools.”

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