Ron DeSantis Shuts Down Far-left Reporter's "Don't Say Gay" Lie
Keneci Channel
Evan Donovan of WFLA News on Monday confronted Florida Governor DeSantis with a blatantly dishonest question about a pair of bills being debated by state lawmakers.
The 'parental rights in education' bills, Senate Bill 1834 and House Bill 1557, give parents more say in deciding what their children are exposed to in the classroom. The House passed a revised version of the bill, on February 24 and it will be debated in the senate this week.
The legislation would ban “classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity” between kindergarten and third grade “or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.”
Additionally, the bill would require that school districts “notify parents of healthcare services” provided to their child and mandate that parents be notified “if there is a change in the student’s services or monitoring related to the student’s mental, emotional, or physical health or well-being and the school’s ability to provide a safe and supportive learning environment for the student.”
If schools were to withhold this information, the parents would be able to “bring action against [the] school district.”
Apparently, far-left LGBTQ activists don't want people to know what is actually in the bills. Banking on their audience not reading past the headline, they quickly branded it "don't say gay" bill. And their far-left media allies as usual fell in line, repeating the misleading meme.
At a Miami event Monday, Donovan asked whether DeSantis supported the legislation, calling it the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
But DeSantis was not having it. “Does it say that that in the bill?” he asked, interrupting the far-left reporter.
“I know that you support —” Donovan tried again.
“Does it say that in the bill?” DeSantis repeated the question.
“I’m asking —” Donovan protested, but DeSantis pushed back immediately.
“I’m asking you to tell me what’s in the bill, because you are pushing false narratives,” DeSantis continued. “It doesn’t matter what critics say.”
“It bans classroom instruction on sexual identity and gender orientation,” Donovan pressed.
“For who?” DeSantis asked. “For grades pre-k through three. So five year olds, six year olds, seven year olds — and the idea that you wouldn’t be honest about that and tell people what it actually says, it’s why people don’t trust people like you because you peddle false narratives.”
Some people at the event began to clap as DeSantis continued, “So we disabuse you of those narratives — and we’re going to make sure that parents are able to send their kid to kindergarten without having some of this stuff injected into their school curriculum.”
The governor had a similar confrontation with another far-left reporter last week. He called the bill “justifiable,” saying, “I think it’s inappropriate to be injecting those matters, like a transgenderism, into a kindergarten classroom.”
The governor's popular press secretary, Christina Pushaw, triggered leftists online when she tweeted that the bill would be more accurately described as an “Anti-Grooming Bill,” writing “If you’re against the Anti-Grooming Bill, you are probably a groomer or at least you don’t denounce the grooming of 4-8 year old children.”
Woke leftists called for the press secretary's firing. Rep. Carlos G. Smith, a gay Democrat who has been one of the most vocal critics of the bill, tweeted that Pushaw should step down over her comments.
They were however roundly mocked on social media for their fake outrage over her common sense tweet.
WATCH Ron DeSantis' exchange with Evan Donovan