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Prove it’: DeSantis claim teachers are ‘instructed’ to tell young kids they may be transgender sparks massive outrage

David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
July 28, 2022

Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis, continuing his months-long, fear-based attack on the LGBTQ community, appears to be claiming that elementary school teachers are "instructed" to tell children they they might be transgender, and insisting if anyone dares to disagree with him, they are "lying."

His claim, which appears in a clip posted by The Recount, is drawing massive outrage on social media.

"This will be for elementary school kids, where they're instructed to tell them, 'You may have been born a boy, that may have been what you said, but maybe you're really a girl.' That's wrong. That has no place in school – so that is happening in our country. Anyone that tells you it's not happening is lying to you," DeSantis, talking very fast, says in the video.

"So I think what we did in Florida was very important, we laid down a marker to make sure that that's not something that gained a foothold here, in the state of Florida, and our kids are able to be kids."

DeSantis' claim that "that is happening in our country" has drawn demands he "prove" his claims. The nation wide focus of his claim lines up with DeSantis' expected run for President.





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Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 @RonFilipkowski wrote: In his big announcement today, Desantis says he is suspending Hillsborough (Tampa) State Attorney Andrew Warren, after he said he would refuse to prosecute certain abortion cases and new laws restricting trans rights.

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Sat Aug 06, 2022 9:12 am First - DeSantis can eat shit and die.

Second, (3rd, 4th.....) - What happens to the people of Hillsborough County? Since the prosecutor was elected, can DeSantis replace him? Does the position stay empty? Is there a deputy who covers for him? Is the guy still collecting his paycheck?

That's a blue area so I bet they're pretty damn pissed.

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Sat Aug 06, 2022 10:36 am I'm trying to find out when the next Hillborough County prosecutor election is…

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Sat Aug 06, 2022 9:59 am He's locked out. He was allowed to gather personal belongings, under surveillance, and escorted off the property.

DeSantis is Dictator of Florida. He's everything trump wishes he could be.

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(I seriously have to get out of this state. I'd rather live under Kemp in blue Savannah than this fucking place. I've only got one normal neighbor left. All the others have joined the cult, even one guy who was a "sane" Republican...until he joined Facebook. Within a month, their algorithm took him down. I'm scouting ABQ this fall.)

bill_g wrote: ↑Sat Aug 06, 2022 9:54 am So, is Warren locked out of his office, or all this heading to court for review? Or both at the moment?

bob wrote: ↑Sat Aug 06, 2022 2:25 pm

bill_g wrote: ↑Sat Aug 06, 2022 9:54 am So, is Warren locked out of his office, or all this heading to court for review? Or both at the moment?

Warren can fight this in court, the Florida Senate, or both.

One is (mostly) legal, one is political. I suspect Warren will lose in either.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Sat Aug 06, 2022 2:32 pmDoes DeSantis really have the ability to remove elected officials?

Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Sat Aug 06, 2022 1:51 pm

Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Sat Aug 06, 2022 9:59 am He's locked out. He was allowed to gather personal belongings, under surveillance, and escorted off the property.

DeSantis is Dictator of Florida. He's everything trump wishes he could be.

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(I seriously have to get out of this state. I'd rather live under Kemp in blue Savannah than this fucking place. I've only got one normal neighbor left. All the others have joined the cult, even one guy who was a "sane" Republican...until he joined Facebook. Within a month, their algorithm took him down. I'm scouting ABQ this fall.)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar wrote:here's how DeSantis wrapped up a news conference this morning that ostensibly was about teacher recruitment