Human Rights
Settlement limits enforcement of Florida's so-called 'Don't Say Gay' act
The state signed the settlement after a federal appeals court blocked another DeSantis law known as the Stop Woke Act.
Gov. Ron DeSantis was quick out the door with a claim that a settlement in a legal challenge to his Parental Rights in Education Act— or Don’t Say Gay — vindicated his efforts “to keep radical gender and sexual ideology out of the classrooms of public-school children.” In fact, the settlement agreement’s terms also limit enforcement of that law (HB 1577), which the governor pushed through the Legislature two years ago to bar public school instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity through grade three (subsequently expanded through higher grades).
