Public Support for Florida Bill In March 2022, DeSantis signed House Bill 1557 (pdf) into law. The Parental Rights in Education act “prohibits classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through third grade."

DeSantis and his appointees had replaced Reedy Creek "in retaliation for its protected speech" against the Parental Rights Education bill. That case was dismissed by U.S.

One of the masterminds from Walt Disney Company behind the ongoing battle with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over the Parental Rights Bill is stepping down.

The bills have faced opposition from civil rights activists and groups and parents of transgender children. One such group The Trevor Project argues that the bills would increase the risk of self-harm and suicide among transgender youth.

Leventis added that the bill "seeks to substitute the judgment of trained medical professionals and parents with that of elected officials and codifies discrimination against children who already face far too many obstacles."

We are standing strong for common sense, parental rights, women, minors, and freedom in North Carolina," state Sen. Dana Caudill Jones, a Republican, wrote on social media.

In response, McAuliffe said that parents would have had the power to remove books from library shelves if the 2016 bill passed. "It was not that the parents had the right to veto books ... also take them off the shelves," he said.

Yet, according to Dave Rubin, host of The Rubin Report, the "Don't Say Gay" label is a serious misrepresentation of the bill, which goes far beyond just the gender discussions, and is primarily about transparency and parental rights over children.

Amy Bohn, of the Protection of Educational Rights for Kids, told The Epoch Times the outcome marked “a historic day in California for parental rights."

Disney encountered public backlash last year after taking a stand against the passage of Florida’s parental rights in education legislation in March 2022, saying the bill unfairly targeted the LGBT community.

The act of prayer under the Andrews government’s proposed Conversion Therapy Bill could soon land Victorians in jail, thereby violating religious freedom and parental rights, a conservative think tank has said.

the Alberta Bill of Rights,” Deputy Justice Minister Malcolm Lavoie said in the Sept. 10 memo obtained by The Canadian Press.

Bill C-71, An Act to amend the Citizenship Act, would allow a Canadian parent born abroad to pass on citizenship to their child born abroad as long as the parents can prove a "substantial connection to Canada."

She highlighted the ALA's "Library Bill of Rights," which the Alabama Public Library Service has adopted.

Parental Rights A resolution calls on the UCP to support a parental rights bill that says these rights should not be perceived to be "subject to governmental approval or granted to us by the government,” but acknowledged as a “natural/God-given right.

(John Fredricks/The Epoch Times) Finally, the bill guts parental rights in other states, he said.

This bill is a mechanism to find parents implicitly “abusive” for not transitioning their kids, without coming right out and saying it, because Wiener is too smart for that.

After Idaho’s House passed a bill prohibiting gender reassignment surgeries, puberty blockers, and hormone therapy in connection with transitioning, the Senate killed the bill claiming it undermined parental rights.

Parental rights regarding the custody of children "is a fundamental constitutional right," he explained.

A month earlier, he signed a bill that protected the parents' “fundamental right” to make decisions for the upbringing, education, health care, or mental health of their minor children.

I urge all parents to go to the rally today to support this movement and demand change, for the sake of their own children as well as their rights as parents.”

(Kathryn Riley/Getty Images) Women's Rights May Mailman, a senior legal fellow with the Independent Women’s Law Center, said the issue extends well beyond the rights of parents. She said it impacts all women.

Gender Transition Bill The legislation at issue prohibits physicians or practitioners from providing "gender transition procedures" to individuals under the age of 18, even with parental consent.

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released its Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights in 2022.

In 2022, following the passage of Florida’s Parental Rights in Education bill, Disney’s now-ousted CEO Bob Chapek stepped back from his stance to not give in to woke demands after Disney employees demanded the company condemn the legislation.

But DeSantis has said he believes his AI Bill of Rights would be consistent with Trump’s all-encompassing rulebook.

In an Assembly Public Safety Committee analysis of her bill, she said SB 1005 creates a statute in California law that gives juveniles charged with certain minor offenses the right to choose the alternative justice system.

DeSantis signed the Parental Rights in Education Bill during his first term as governor. It was labeled by dissenters as the "Don't Say Gay Bill."

"This dangerous bill undermines Alabama parents' ability to make decisions about what’s best for their kids," said Scott McCoy, a legal director of the LGBTQ rights division at the Southern Poverty Law Center.

“But at the same time, we want to make sure we respect the rights of parents to choose to send their children to a school that’s a single-sex school.” The bill had been referred to the Australian Law Reform Commission to be examined.