Biff_Poindexter
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Amendment to Florida 'parental rights' bill could lead to outing of LGBTQ students, critics say
The GOP-backed amendment would require information shared between a student and school personnel to be provided to parents, even if it may harm the student.
www.wtsp.com
"An amendment to the House version of Florida's "Parental Rights in Education" legislation, which critics have called the "don't say gay" bill, would require the disclosure of certain student information to a parent after a period of time. Opponents contend this could equate to the forced outing of a child to family members who may not be supportive of their sexual identity. They fear this could put the child at risk of abuse. House Bill 1557, as it's written, bars school personnel from notification of parents or parental involvement in critical decisions affecting a student's mental, emotional or physical health or well-being.
But the amendment filed last week by one of the bill's sponsors, Republican State Rep. Joe Harding, mandates that school personnel "shall develop a plan...to disclose such information within 6 weeks after the decision to withhold such information from the parent. Democratic State Rep. Carlos Smith, the first openly LGBTQ Latino member of the Florida Legislature, tweeted this amendment "will have devastating consequences for our youth," calling it a "state-mandated outing of LGBTQ students to parents."
Lol, the libs are so triggered....you can't have it both ways....You can't claim to be loud and proud but not want schools to tell parents that their kid's a fag or a lesbo....If a parent doesn't know his or her child is a queer; but somehow school staff finds this out -- of course the school should sit down with the parents and out that kid...the parents have a right to know so that parent can take corrective measures to fix the kid before it becomes too late to save him. I will take it one step further, as soon as the school staff finds out a kid is gay - they should be sent to gay conversion therapy asap or at the very least, put these kids in their own school and keep them isolated from regular kids.....that is how this spreads...