Thu Oct 6, 2022 – 4:34 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Federal Judge Allen Winsor dismissed a challenge to Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law Tuesday on the grounds that the “harms” claimed by the LGBT activists who filed the lawsuit could not be traced to enforcement of the law itself.
Earlier this year, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the law, which bans schools from teaching children in kindergarten through third grade about transgenderism and other sexuality-related issues, limits discussions of sexuality for older children to “age appropriate” content and requires parents to be informed of any changes that could affect their child’s physical, emotional, or mental well-being.
Left-wing activists and their media allies misleadingly dubbed the measure a “Don’t-Say-Gay Bill,” framing it as a hateful attack on LGBT teachers and students and scoffing at the notion that it tackles a real problem, despite scores of examples of teachers engaging in LGBT activism in schools.
The lawsuit against the law, spearheaded by the LGBT lobbying groups Equality Florida and Family Equality, claimed that it violated educators’ free-speech rights under the First Amendment, due-process rights under the 14th Amendment, and the federal Title IX education law.
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