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Anna1996: The Don't Say Gay Law - Florida's New Invividual Education Program (IEP) for Transgenders.

Let me start by apologizing for the length of this post, but this is an issue I am passionate about. Just when I though that liberals couldn't become anymore unhinged, The Biden Administration is now threatening to send the Department of Justice to Florida, Alabama, Arkansas and a few other states that have or are working on establishing regulations and individual programs for transgender students. Of course, the Democrats, who claim to be the advocate for us really dont care about the LGBTQ Community or how states educate their LGBTQ students. Democrats and the woke movement is designed for one purpose, its all about dividing us by painting the false nararative that conservatives are racist and homophobic. If you read the new Florida Educational Program provisions, dubbed by the democrats as the "The Don't Say Gay Law", you will realize that its really for the betterment of the school's overall community, including transgender and gay students. Changes include a statewide standardized teaching curriculum and IEP Guideline for transgender students.

Part 1. Curriculam Changes. Good teachers should teach basic education and take pride in forming an educational bond with its students, inspiring them to want to learn. Nobody has a more influence on shaping our children's future, other than parents. Therefore statewide teaching curriculam changes were implemented including a much more stringent testing program for all grade levels. Governor Desantis's new program also gave its teachers a substantial raise in pay and is setting up an incentive program for summer bonuses based on their students test scores. But that didnt stop liberal teachers, mostly female from complaining about the new curriculam changes eliminating their woke movement lesson plans. When they threatened to quit, the Desantis Administration told them to give their notice, so they could get their last paycheck.

All Critical Race Theories, gender identity and teaching children about sex is removed from the State's Teaching Curriculam. This Woke Movement and all its systematic hate for a united America is killing our children and has no business being taught in any basic educational level, especially grade schoolers. If parents want to teach racial issues or gender identity to their children, they will do so. One 3rd grade teacher actually made a video and powerpoint presentation to teach her students that watching porn is normal and they should not be ashamed of it. The video elaborated further that watching porn helps to develop their gender identity and sexuality. As a parent, I cannot imagine how livid I would be if my 8 year old child came home from school and told me about that her teacher's lesson plan for the day was making the entire class watch a video encouraging porn! As such, Desantis's new program bipasses the teachers union and any teacher caught straying from the new curriculam is subject to be disciplined and or fired. The new provisions also gives parents back the lawful right to file legal actions against school districts that do not conform to the revised curriculam. The new program encourages parents to become more proactive in their children's education, starting with knowing the teaching curriculam guidelines.

Part 2: Establishing and implementing a new IEP Team, spearheaded by teachers and or counselors with psychology backgrounds and establishing both the rules for transitioning students and an individual program designed to help them, not to hold them back. Not many realize that suicide is the second leading cause of death among teens and young adults in the United States. The following numbers are eye-opening and based on a study to assess the connection between gender identity and suicide risk. Researchers examined survey data collected from more than 120,000 youths nationwide. Participants were 15 years old on average, and less than 1 percent of them identified as transgender.

Among other things, the survey asked teens if they had either thought about or tried to kill themselves. Overall, nearly 12 percent of the participants said they had thought about it, but less than half that percentage attempted suicide. 52% of transgender teens who identify as male but were assigned a female gender at birth have attempted suicide at least once. 42% of adolescents who don’t identify exclusively as male or female have at least one prior suicide attempt. About 30 percent of trans female teens who identify as female but have birth certificates that label them as male have tried suicide at least once. Those are alarming numbers and cannot be ignored!

Most of the transgenders surveyed admitted that the reasons they contemplated, or worse yet, tried to commit suicide were based on social issues, mainly peer pressure at school, or community and family based rejection. Facing discrimination, and or victimization basically changed their mindset to perceiving that they do not belong. Governor Desantis said after reading the suveys, "It is critically important that we begin investing in asking why, instead of simply counting how many have commited suicide, especially for designing an effective prevention program." Florida's new IEP for transgenders is geared to prepare them for this before they make their transition. But there are rules and restictions.

⦁ An Individual Education Plan (IEP) team will be assigned to start preparing and assessing the student for the transition process in seventh grade year or when the student reaches the age of 12, whichever occurs first. The IEP Program guidelines are basic and are designed be followed or altered, based on that individual student's specific needs. The teacher or counselor will be required to get to know their participating student on a more personal level, to prepare them for all of the life changes as they transition, help them to deal with ridicule instead of letting them be victimized, to meet with their family if needed or those closest in their lives and most importantly to make an educated assesment of that students commitment and readiness to begin the medical part of their transition. This part of the IEP is designed to prepare the student for the social aspects of transitioning, not the medical. Complete confidentiality will be granted on an individual basis at the students request.

⦁ According to Endocrine Society guidelines, patients who want to begin medical treatment like puberty blockers, hormones or surgery should be old enough to give “informed consent,”. The organization claims consenting age is 16. However, the IEP team will have an operational plan in place that will begin either on the first day of the student’s first year in high school or when he or she attains the age of 14, whichever occurs first. The teacher or counselor will be required to watch over the transitioning student, assessing both the physical and physcological effects of the students medical transitioning treatments and as well as how he or she developes socially. School districts will provide and upkeep a website containing all of the IEP Program guidelines as well as other available program's to help transitioning student. The IEP team leader will also encourage the transitioning student's parents or family to access the school district's high school-level transition services, including career and technical education, collegiate programs and or work training opportunities available to such students after graduating, including how to enroll in them.

⦁ A statement of the student’s intent to pursue a standard high school diploma must document discussion of the process of deferment of a standard high school diploma and a signed statement of the student’s intention to defer the high school diploma, if applicable. The statement includes an agreement that the student agrees not not compete athletically against their gender's cisgender classmates.

⦁ Similar counseling will also be provided for non-transitioning students that have LGBTQ sexual preferences and are struggling socially. Counseling will be given strictly on a volunteer basis and confidentiality will also be granted as per the individual's needs or request.

Now really, is that so bad? Personally I think its a responsible way of helping transgenders, both in making their gender identity transitions, as well as making sure they have the proper education and social stability to make their gender transition from high school to the collegiate level or to start their adult life. Yet the liberals are livid, calling the changes "anti - LGBTQ". In fact, 2 days ago — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to ban official travel to Florida in protest of the Sunshine State's so-called "Don't Say Gay" law. In the meantime, the rate of suicidal tendancies for transitioning teens in LA will keep going up, because they don't have any LGBTQ or individual transgender programs for students who need help.

I get so sick of hearing from LGBTQ people of how racist I am for being conservative or what a traitor I am to our community! In reality, most of you really dont know what your democratic elected politician really does when he or she is not campaigning for your vote. All the democrats really care about is staying in power. They get your vote by keeping us divided, convincing both the LGBTQ community and minority races, that conservatives are racist and homophobic. But ask yourself, what have they really did for the LGBTQ Community besides talk and promise things? Typical liberals, they bitch about gender and racial problems but they never put forth any effort to implement real change or solutions to those issues. In fact, most far left liberals would rather keep you angry with those issues, its their way of controlling you and most importantly, getting your vote. With transgender teen suicide rates so alarmingly high, dont you think a preventative individual program like this is needed?