Florida Democrats Freak Out Over New Bill Requiring Men to Use Male Pronouns
TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA — Homosexual and gender-confused Democrat lawmakers are furious over a new bill that seeks to preserve “Biblical views of sexuality.”
Last week, State Rep. Ryan Chamberlin (R-Belleview) filed a bill that would ban the use of “preferred pronouns” at publicly supported institutions.
Chamberlin’s HB 599 would make it illegal for any taxpayer funded institution – such as public schools, colleges and universities, municipal governments and some nonprofits – to punish an employee or contractor for refusing to refer to a coworker by pronouns that do not align with his/her biological sex.
“An employee or a contractor may not be required, as a condition of employment, to refer to another person using that person's preferred personal title or pronouns if such personal title or pronouns do not correspond to that person's sex,” the initial bill text states.
Specifically, the bill bans “adverse personnel actions” such as termination, demotion, suspension, transfer or the withholding of bonuses. Protected from discrimination are the employee or contractor’s “deeply held religious or biology-based beliefs, including a belief in traditional or Biblical views of sexuality and marriage” or “disagreement with gender ideology.”
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LGBTQ DEMOCRATS RESPOND: “ERASING OUR EXISTENCE”
The proposal incited a furious response from the Florida LGBTQ+ Democratic Caucus.
“This is a disturbing escalation of right-wing extremism in Florida and an aggressive acceleration by the DeSantis administration in its continued attempt to censor and erase our existence,” caucus president Nathan Bruemmer said in a statement shared with the Florida Phoenix.
“This expansion of government control is about removing and discouraging transgender Floridians from participating in public service roles and censoring the missions of Florida’s nonprofits of which the DeSantis administration disagrees.”
Chamberlin’s proposal strikes at an issue that allows for no compromise, namely, whether or not maleness and femaleness are fixed attributes inherent in nature or merely social constructs that can be altered on a whim.
“It is the policy of the state that a person's sex is an immutable biological trait and that it is false to ascribe to a person a pronoun that does not correspond to such person's sex,” the bill text states.
In addition to protecting these traditional views on sex and gender, the bill also seeks to ban mandatory workplace training on “sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.”