Florida House passes controversial bills impacting LGBTQ+ education and parental rights.

The Florida House passed a bill that would extend the ban on teaching about sexual orientation and gender identity to eighth grade, going further than current Florida law to restrict the rights of transgender individuals in the state and limit what schools can discuss and teach about sex. The bill would force K-12 public schools to define sex as “an immutable biological trait” and says it is “false” to use a pronoun that doesn’t correspond to that sex. The bill would also give parents and citizens more power to challenge classroom materials they consider pornographic or believe contain sexual conduct.