The White House is prodding Florida students and parents to file federal antidiscrimination lawsuits over the state’s new law that bars schools from teaching sexual orientation and sexual identity before fourth grade.
House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the law, which took effect Friday, was “shameful.”
“Today, some of Florida’s most vulnerable students and families are more fearful and less free. As the state’s shameful “Don’t Say Gay” law takes effect, state officials who claim to champion liberty are limiting the freedom of their fellow Americans simply to be themselves,” she said in a statement.
Critics dubbed the law “Don’t Say Gay,” claiming it was an LGBTQ gag order and would encourage bullying.