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Schools are not "training" kids on how to be a different gender id. As far as LGBT kids or kids with same sex parents or much more commonly kids with one whatever parent or LGBT teachers its not a question of normal or abnormal. Such diversity in families and teachers is a fact of life. Believe me everyone learns about heteronormative assumptions very early.

Exactly. Not really interested in the real implications of this bill.

Ignoring the fact that the bill includes ALL grades.

Don't go then because then you'll realize its not as good here.

Its a matter of equality in schools not special treatment

A very ironic thing is that American right wingers pose as the pro liberty party Making a major segment of the population invisible in schools under penalty of financially ruinous lawsuits by organized bigoted moron parents is the opposite of liberty. I wonder if this bill might even be worse than war criminal Putin's anti LGBT laws.

Dude you haven't even bothered to process the actual chilling anti intellectual freedom impact of this bill on ALL grades so you're obviously not posting in good faith. For one of millions of examples in ANY grade in a music class if the subject of the homosexuality of Tchaikovsky comes up the teacher must aggressively shut it down or risk being sued by a moron bigoted parent. The LGBT kids will be made invisible and made to feel something is wrong with them increasing already high LGBT youth suicide rates. Imagine if this same bill was about Jews not LGBT. Then at least some of the anti LGBT bigots might understand how horrible this bill is.

Much longer than that but now the US has devolved into a cold civil war situation where the future of any kind of democracy is under real and direct threat.

The main difference between this Chinese origin chicken rice as found in Thailand and Singapore is that its usually much much better in Singapore.

Now that anti LGBT demagogue DeSantis has attacked "sacred" in Florida Disney, is there hope that will backfire? Don't mess with Disney! https://www.newsweek.com/disney-ron-desantis-vote-florida-1695981 Could Disney Workers Help Vote Ron DeSantis Out of Florida? Amid his ongoing feud with Disney over its opposition to the controversial "don't say gay" bill, there has been speculation Florida Governor Ron DeSantis may have picked a fight too big even for the political firebrand.

Of course I won't be responding to extremist anti LGBT flame rants on a gay forum. Experience has shown there is no hope of rational discussion with such people. Similar waste of time situation as trying to talk to pro insurrectionist trumpists.

My understanding is that SWIFT transfers are totally blocked internationally but only to SOME Russian banks. So I'm not aware of any reason why any Thai bank couldn't do a SWIFT transfer to the still not blocked Russian banks (if they wanted to). There may be other workarounds. Additional (or all) Russian banks might eventually be added to the no SWIFT list.

Why? Florida song.

DeSantis signs legislation dubbed by opponents 'Don't Say Gay' (heraldtribune.com) Again, the issue is about ALL GRADES. Parents are free to bring lawsuits against schools for any speech they don't like, because "... in accordance with state standards ..." is NOT DEFINED and the state of Florida has no intension of defining them. Then schools must spend money they don't have to defend these cases. The result -- basically don't say gay. Just ERASE all the LGBT students, teachers, people in the rest of the community, and from all history. Teachers will be forced to self censor in the extreme. The USA promotes itself as a free country. This policy is the exact OPPOSITE of freedom and liberty. Many good teachers will obviously just resign from the profession, perhaps leaving too many that support this kind of ignorant far right wing intolerance. This is what you would expect in an authoritarian country like Russia.

That's nice but its disturbing that a man with a big chance of being president DeSantis is building his career by oppressing LGBT youth and turning the job of teacher in Florida into more of a hellscape than it already is. This is all about exciting his base. Good politics for him but horrible policy.

Another thing very annoying about deeply oppressive anti civil rights laws like this. We might now be entering WW3. The enemies of the west primarily Russia demagogue against LGBT in very similar ways as right wing American republicans. Its no surprise then that war criminal Putin even now still enjoys support from this same US faction. You know the Fox Tucker Carlson brigade.

It is true. This bill doesn't allow common sense.

No. Its a loaded question and that's the point for the hateful right wing demagogues pushing such unnecessary laws. Suppose a young child draws a picture of his family but his family is different than heteronormative. The teacher would be forced under law to destroy the drawing and not allowed to even mention what happened. Such a child would be traumatized and taught to be feel deep shame about his own loving family. Talk about child abuse? That is extreme psychological child abuse much more damaging over time than physical abuse. If the teacher decided to react in a compassionate and humane way any other parent could file financially ruinous lawsuits. This law doesn't let teachers do their jobs with common sense and decency In ALL GRADES. In all that they do in the classroom they have anti LGBT civil rights bigots watching over their every word. This will definitely increase LGBT youth suicides.

Note that there are active lawsuits in Florida challenging this bill so its at least possible that it will be struck down. In either case DeSantis has furthered his presidential ambitions

You refuse to process points repeated multiple times about how this is about ALL grades. I'm not interested in engaging with blatantly disingenuous master debaters. Adios

I would like to see more of the world beyond the west unite against Putin. Japan and Australia are western.

This bill isn't about protecting children. It is about scapegoating LGBT people to promote even more far right republican political power.

The legislation reads: “Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.” All grades. What state standards? Parents any grade may file lawsuits. So teachers will be forced to erase the existence of LGBT people. May as well call the bill the promote LGBT SUICIDE bill.

They won't but nice sentiment. I'm more concerned about the Putin loving coming out of India as they are a major power. China of course is a lost cause.

The primary issue is Putin doesn't think Ukraine should exist at all. Hitler used the same excuse about ethnic Germans to invade Czechoslovakia. It was BS just like the Donbas excuse is BS.