Sat Oct 22, 2022 – 8:31 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — A federal judge sided with Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday, opting to toss out a challenge to the state’s law prohibiting sexual content in school curricula for young children.
Orlando-based U.S. District Judge Wendy Berger, a Trump appointee, handed down the 28-page decision on October 20, denying a request for a preliminary injunction against Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act.
Plaintiffs in the case had argued the law was intended to advance discrimination and could lead to the bullying of children with confused “gender identities.” However, Berger noted that the “[p]laintiffs have not pointed this court to any policy or procedure …that they allege has resulted in an increase in bullying.”
While the federal judge said “the court is sympathetic” to the notion that a child could be bullied at school over gender related issues, “middle school children bully and belittle their classmates for a whole host of reasons, all of which are unacceptable, and many of which have nothing to do with a classmate’s gender identity.”
This was the second challenge tossed out in one month. https://t.co/RdGDLiTuhc
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