From WNYC Studios, it's Brian Lair, a daily politics podcast.

It's Wednesday, June 1st.

It is Pride Month in the LGBTQ community.

And this year, it seems, think about it, Pride Month comes amid an

intensifying culture war offensive aimed at making people in general, but parents in particular

afraid of their neighbors who are not straight in their sexual orientation or not traditionally

cisgender male or female in their gender identity.

And in that context, we're going to talk on this June 1st about homophobia and transphobia,

this fear, phobia of people in gender or sexual minorities as if they could recruit your

children to their ranks, right?

As if who you're attracted to or what your gender identity is is something you can choose,

like a major in college, as opposed to just who you are.

Straight people, can you choose who you're sexually attracted to?

Men, women, can you make a decision to feel like the other sex?

But people like Florida Governor Randa Santis are passing laws like Florida's so-called

don't-say gay law, officially the parental rights and education law, as if parents can

pick the sexual and gender orientation of their children for them,

or as if it's a matter of choice in the first place.

Here's DeSantis on March 4th.

It's basically saying for our youngest students, four-year-olds, five-year-olds, six years, and seven,

do you really want them to be being taught about sex? And this is

any sexual stuff, but I think clearly right now we see a lot of focus on the transgenderism,

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