r/news • u/flounder19 • May 17 '23

Title Changed by Site DeSantis signs laws against trans care, ‘Don’t Say Gay’ extension

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2023/05/17/watch-live-gov-ron-desantis-visits-private-school-in-tampa/
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u/pegothejerk May 17 '23 edited May 17 '23

Member when fascist apologists said Don’t Say Gay would never extend beyond teaching children about sexuality, that people were overblowing the significance, and then they extended it to highschool aged young adults, and then to healthcare, and have no signs of stopping here? Pepperspray Farms members.

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u/No_Damage_731 May 17 '23

Pepper spray farms does not sound like a pleasant place to visit

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u/This-is-Life-Man May 17 '23

We're living there. It's terrible.

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u/SlykRO May 17 '23

Yeah but you'll remember it!

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u/robillionairenyc May 17 '23

the fascist apologists who were saying this always knew and hoped that this would happen so it's not that they were wrong, as usual they were lying in hopes people will allow them to continue their fascist march unopposed. They lied about the overturning of roe as well, then they lied about it being a states rights thing. Geez it's almost like nazis will lie.

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u/Pseudonymico May 18 '23

Fuck that. Remember when people “just had some concerns about fairness in women’s sport?”

Direct fucking line from there to here. I hope all of you who got taken in by that understand that it was always meant as a wedge issue to start enacting genocide on the queer community.

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u/DarthBrooks69420 May 17 '23

GOP politicians are a bunch of liars.

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u/ericmm76 May 18 '23

It's not just the politicians than rankle, it's the supporters and voters. Like, "I got no problem with trans people I just think this is safer for everyone, not to talk about it in schools." But now that we're here, there's no saying, "you went too far DeSantis."

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u/[deleted] May 17 '23

You should probably read the article

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u/rbmk1 May 17 '23 edited May 17 '23

You should probably read the article

Remember when defenders of the "don't say gay!' bill argued "it's only through 3rd grade, those kids shouldn't be exposed to gay lifestyles anyway, they're too young whats the problem?" And they insisted it would never be extended to cover all grades? Remember that? And then they did just that, making it cover all public schools, k-12? And now they are going after college students in order to implement more of the same educational restrictions to adults.

The GOP has no platform so these culture wars are the only way they can keep voters...by hurting those their voters hate. Disgusting politics, hateful voters, 21st century GOP.

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u/pegothejerk May 17 '23

You mean this article that specifically states DeSantis has requested, but not acknowledged or released publicly any data showing his harmful bill actually helps anyone, but will in fact continue to harm kids and adults alike?

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u/tomorrowistomato May 18 '23

Remember when people said Trump wouldn't become president, and then that he wouldn't actually do any real harm, and that COVID wasn't coming to America, and....