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(He also claimed to have heard examples of children being told, “Don’t worry, don’t pick your gender yet,” and cases in which teachers are “hiding” lessons from parents.) The bill is now headed to the state’s Republican-controlled Senate, where it is expected to pass, and then will land on the desk of Governor Ron DeSantis, who signaled his support for the legislation earlier this month, saying it’s “entirely inappropriate” for teachers to talk with students about gender identity. In addition to banning “classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity” in the state’s public elementary schools, the bill allows parents to take legal action against school districts if they think their “fundamental right” as parents has been violated. Despite claims by Representative Joe Harding, who introduced the measure, that it is simply about “empowering parents” and “creating boundaries at an early age of what is appropriate in our schools,” in reality, the legislation is dangerously anti-LGBTQ+ and hugely harmful to the young people it’s supposedly trying to protect. On Thursday, Florida’s House of Representatives passed the Parental Rights in Education bill, better known (and more aptly dubbed) the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Yes, despite regularly invoking (and entirely misrepresenting) the First Amendment in order to justify inciting a violent insurrection, or to complain their rights have been violated when they very much have not, conservative lawmakers are currently trying to censor the conversations teachers are allowed to have in classrooms, and if you took a wild guess that the crackdown is coming from an unambiguously bigoted place, congratulations: You know your modern Republican Party. Something you’ve probably gleaned about the GOP by now is that while it talks a big game about being the party of “freedom,” when it comes down to it, it wants to police the books people can read, the subjects they can teach, the decisions they’re allowed to make about their own bodies, and the words that come out of their mouths.