It also originally required staff to 'out' students to their parents if the school became aware of a child's sexual orientation or gender identity through counseling or other services, barring situations where a 'reasonably prudent person would believe that disclosure would result in abuse, abandonment, or neglect.'Īn amendment for the bill filed by one of its cosponsors, Rep. The bill initially received pushback for banning school districts from encouraging 'discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in primary grade levels or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students,' though it did not explicitly say what was defined as 'age-appropriate' or 'developmentally appropriate.'
A now-withdrawn amendment to Florida's 'Parental Rights in Education' bill - also dubbed the 'Don't Say Gay' bill - would have required schools to tell a student's parents if their child wasn't straight within six weeks of learning that information.