Florida Passed a “Don’t Say Gay” Law. It’s Already Transforming Schools.

James Surowiecki
3 min readJul 1, 2022
Caricature of Ron DeSantis (Wikimedia)

When HB1557, the new Florida law prohibiting any classroom instruction on “sexual orientation or gender identity” in kindergarten through third grade, became law in March, its supporters insisted that the “Don’t Say Gay” monicker that activists had bestowed on the law was inaccurate. Even though the preamble to the bill says that it prohibits not only instruction…

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James Surowiecki

I’m the author of The Wisdom of Crowds. I’ve been a business columnist for Slate and The New Yorker and written for a wide range of other publications.