Mon Jun 13, 2022 – 3:20 pm EDT
THE VILLAGES, Florida (LifeSiteNews) — Florida’s Ron DeSantis slammed the Biden Administration for “trying to deny school lunch programs to states that don’t do transgender ideology in the schools.”
The governor made the remarks during a June 2 press conference at The Villages, the community where he signed the Florida state budget.
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“[Biden] is totally off his rocker to be doing that,” said DeSantis
“We’re fighting on that, [and] we’re just prepared to be able to defend the taxpayers and the hard-working people in the state of Florida.”
DeSantis’ comment was in response to a May 5 rule governing the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) federal funding of school lunches. The new guidance interpreted Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 “to include discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.”
Further, under the new USDA rule, schools must “update their non-discrimination policies and signage to include prohibitions against discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation” or otherwise the institutions would lose their federal funding for lunch programs.
READ: DeSantis considers legislation banning kids from attending LGBT
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