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Sex ed books for middle, high school banned as ‘age-inappropriate’ under new Florida law

Florida’s Miami-Dade County School Board has voted to ban two previously-approved sex education textbooks amid concerns that they violate a new state law against age-inappropriate sexuality and gender lessons.

The board voted 5-4 against the books this week. It previously allowed the book in a 5-3 vote in April after parents’ groups challenged it in light of the Parental Rights in Education bill that went into effect on July 1. The law bans “age-inappropriate” sexuality and gender identity lessons from the state’s public k-12 classrooms.

“I voted against it because I don’t feel it is age-appropriate,” school board member Maria Teresa Rojas told 7 News Miami.