Teachers in Florida have been banned from giving lessons on sexual orientation and gender identity to children under the age of nine
"We will make sure that parents can send their kids to school to get an education, not an indoctrination," he said before signing the bill into law.He and other speakers stood at a podium adorned with a placard reading"Protect Children/Support Parents".
The Walt Disney Company, a powerful player in Florida politics, suspended its political donations in the state. Its theme park workers staged walkouts over what they considered to be a slow response against the bill from Bob Chapek, its chief executive.After Mr DeSantis signed the measure, the company released a statement saying:"Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts, and we remain committed to supporting the national and state organisations working to achieve that.
"The bill's intentionally vague language leaves teachers afraid to talk to their students and opens up school districts to costly and frivolous litigation from those seeking to exclude LGBTQ people from any grade level," state representative Carlos Smith, a Democrat who is gay, said. "Even worse, #DontSayGay sends a hateful message to our most vulnerable youth who simply need our support."