With the DeSantis "Don't Say Gay" bill, the problem with this legislation is the slippery slope it creates: although I don't support sex ed being taught in the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd Grades...at what point will conservative parents or administrators abuse the "Don't Say Gay" bill as a pretense under which they try to get a gay-friendly teacher fired or punished?

My friend Miguel is a middle school math & foreign language teacher; but he is openly-gay amongst his students, and several of his LGBT students have privately confided in him about things they were too embarrassed to tell their parents.

If Miguel still lived in Florida and taught there, proponents of the "Don't Say Gay" bill could try to weaponize it against him, to coerce him into avoiding ANY acknowledgment of LGBT people on school grounds in ANY context.

With the debates about transgender athletes, I'm not informed enough to speak on that. I am not a transgender person, and I never participated in school athletics. If I'd been discussing the issue with your friend, I'd have asked her: "What do you believe are the standards or criteria under which schools should determine whether a student athlete is allowed to participate in boys' sports team s or girls' sports teams?"