Fri Mar 11, 2022 – 2:56 pm EST
ORLANDO, Florida (LifeSiteNews) — Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis hit back at Disney CEO Bob Chapek on Thursday for publicly criticizing a Florida bill designed to protect young children from radical sexual ideology in schools.
During a March 10 event in Orlando, Florida, the home of Disney’s sprawling 27,000 acre Disney World resort, the firebrand governor said the Sunshine State won’t base its policy on “the musings of woke corporations,” and blasted the mega-corporation for its relationship with the brutal Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime.
“So here’s what I can tell you: In the state of Florida, we are not going to allow them to inject transgenderism into kindergarten,” DeSantis stated in a video obtained by Fox News Digital.
“First-graders shouldn’t have woke gender ideology imposed in their curriculums, and that is what we’re standing for, because we’re standing for the kids and we’re standing for the parents,” said DeSantis, who has generated widespread support among conservatives for fighting liberty-crushing COVID-19 measures, backing law enforcement, favoring measures limiting abortion, and working to uproot radical ideologies from the classroom.
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