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Florida Legislature Wants to Expand Don’t Say Gay Law
A new bill is aimed at the workplace
What do you do when your presidential campaign is circling the drain, everyone is making fun of your boots, and you are term limited from running for governor again? Expand your most controversial law, of course.
Florida state representative Ryan Chamberlain has introduced a bill expanding Florida’s notorious Don’t Say Gay law to the workplace. The law applies to people who work for the Florida government, government contractors, or work for non-profits that receive state funding.
Yes, you heard me right. If this bill passes, it will be illegal for government workers to use or ask anyone else to use pronouns other than the ones that they were assigned at birth. Or, as the legislation puts it, pronouns that “do not correspond to his or her sex.”
Employers can’t ask an employee for their pronouns. Trans employees are specifically not allowed to state their pronouns.
Tax-exempt non-profits that receive state funding are prohibited from requiring “any training, instruction, or other activity on sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.” Instead, the bill protects what it calls “deeply held biology-based beliefs.”
