This is Something to Think About 03.14.23 "Legislature Looks to Extend Public School Sex Education Restrictions"

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Air Date Tuesday, March 14, 2023

“Legislature Looks to Extend Public School Sex Education Restrictions”

The Florida legislature looks to extend the public-school sex education restrictions enacted last year. HB 1123 goes back to the limits filed initially in the previous year’s legislation, a ban from prekindergarten to the eighth grade that prohibits conversations between teachers and students about gender and sex.

The current restrictions extend to the third grade.

The bill also stipulates that for students in grades nine through twelfth, these subjects must be age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate, following state standards.

In the bill, sex is defined as an immutable biological trait, and students would not be required to use a student’s pronoun if it is not the same as birth; teachers would be prohibited from asking for a student’s preferred title.

I support this legislation for our public schools.

Bill Bunkley is a 17-year veteran Salem Media talk show host based in Tampa. The Bill Bunkley Show airs weekdays across central Florida from 3 to 6 pm. Bill is also President of the Florida Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, which serves as the legislative consultant to the Florida Baptist State Convention (Southern Baptist Convention Churches), among other churches and entities. He has served as the legislative consultant to the Florida Baptist State Convention for the last 27 years at the state capitol in Tallahassee. By the Grace of his Lord Jesus, he is today a cancer survivor diagnosed in 2018 with AML Leukemia, having successfully undergone a bone marrow transplant that same year. His wife is Toni, son is Zac, and they attend Idlewild Baptist Church. 

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