Legislative proposal extending the scope of the law to prohibit the speaking of sexual identity in Florida elementary schools, known colloquially as “Don’t Say Gay” (“Don’t Say Gay”).don’t say gay“), is promoted in that state’s Congress after subcommittee approval.

A rule passed last year by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, prohibits consideration of gender identity in public schools until the third grade of elementary school.but Draft HB 1223, approved on Tuesday by the Lower House Subcommittee on Elections and Innovation, extends that restriction to eighth grade.

Bill by State Congressman Adam Anderson also includes restrictions on the use of pronouns in the classrooms and among the teaching staff of the school, addressing which with any other pronoun that does not correspond to the “biological sex” is prohibited.

“The bill confirms that guidance on sexual orientation and gender identity is best left to parents and guardians at home,” the author of the proposal explained to Florida Politics, which, during a discussion on Tuesday in a subcommittee of the US Congress deserved rejection by the democratic opposition.

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Democratic Rep. Angie Nixon called the bill “anti-free.” “This is not about parental rights. This is not about children’s rights. It’s about adding political moments. It’s all about power and controlhe added.

The proposal defines in state education law that gender is “the classification of a person as either female or male based on the organization of said person’s body for reproductive function, what do human sex chromosomes indicatenatural sex hormones and the state of the internal and external genital organs at birth.

The bill includes exemptions for “persons born with a genetically or biochemically verifiable disorder of sexual development.”

The proposal is yet to be discussed in House Committee on Education and Employment before discussion in plenary session.

Similar proposal in the State Senate Republican Senator Clay Yarborough, SB 1320, is awaiting discussion in the first of two committees in which he is scheduled. (EFE)