Sunday Edition: What the “Don’t Say Gay” Bill Says About GOP Politics
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🗓️ 13 March 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Sunday edition of CNN Five Things. I'm David Ryan. |
| 0:05.0 | In recent years, we've seen the conversation around schools, |
| 0:11.0 | what gets taught in them, and how much parents have a say in that, become pretty |
| 0:14.7 | heated. |
| 0:15.7 | And over the past few weeks, much of that conversation has been focused on the state of Florida. |
| 0:20.1 | Much of the nation is watching Florida's controversial bill as it takes another step forward that bans certain discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity from classrooms across the state. |
| 0:30.0 | It's being called the Don't Say Gay Bill. |
| 0:33.0 | Last week, the state legislature there passed that bill, |
| 0:36.0 | and many parents, students, and advocates are left wondering |
| 0:40.0 | what comes next. |
| 0:41.0 | Let's take you to Florida now and spend five minutes with CNN's Steve Kontorno. |
| 0:45.2 | He covers politics in the state for us. He's in St. Petersburg now. So Steve, there's been a ton of back and forth |
| 0:51.5 | about what is actually in this bill. |
| 0:53.8 | Opponents have dubbed it the don't say gay bill, but what exactly is it? |
| 0:59.0 | David, the official name of the bill is actually the Parental Rights and in education bill and that's because this bill |
| 1:05.2 | largely talks about giving parents more insights into their school-aged children's lives. |
| 1:11.1 | But there are two lines in the legislation that have come very |
| 1:15.2 | concerning for Democrats and LGBTQ community and that is the part that says |
| 1:20.6 | schools are not allowed to have instruction on sexual orientation and |
| 1:26.6 | gender identity for students ages K through 3 or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students and other |
| 1:36.3 | grades. That second half of that is not entirely clear what that means and that's also been a point of contention between |
| 1:44.4 | Democrats and Republicans but proponents say that the bill does not |
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