This is a kink. Of the Parental Rights bill, recently voted into law by the Florida legislative, it must be said that it has more philosophical and cultural significance than it first appears. And it must be added that, beside being a long overdue reaction to the sex-based identitarian politics that the Cultural Left promotes through its proxy sex-based representative, the LGBTTTQQIAA+, the new law carries so much philosophical import that one is justified in at least doubting the Republican operatives behind it would have fully grasped its profound implications. Conservatives are too much into philosophy.
Whatever the conclusion you might arrive to, only one thing is certain. The new law marks a serious curtailment of the radical leftist ideology and politics the LGBTTTQQIAA+ has, unimpeded, been inosculating into American children for the last three or four decades. If on the surface the new law seeks only to bolster the rights of Floridian parents to get more involved and have a stronger say in all aspects of the education of their children; and if, also in the surface, the new law allows for schools and teachers to be legally accountable to parents concerning all extracurricular subject matters ministered to their children, the Florida authorities are doing far more than simply imposing a curtailment on anyone saying "gay." Assuming that, in effect, the Republican operatives behind the introduction of the new law would have been unaware of the philosophical impinges of their motion, there is but little doubt that the LGBTTTQQIAA+ school cadres and their cultural and political supporters from the Biden corporate media were all too painfully aware of the philosophical dimensions of such motion.
You can ascertain for yourself that this is indeed the case. Just notice that in attacking the aims of the law, its opponents do not base their opposition on what it says: they place the emphasis on what it does not say. In other words, since the opponents of the Republican initiative apparently see no virtue in having parents thoroughly immersed in all the phases of the education of their children; and, since they apparently see no benefits to society in parental responsibility for all things concerning the schooling of their children, the sex-identitarian wing of the Cultural Left resorts to distortion and deception. So, it claims the Parental Rights law somehow punishes saying "gay" when in fact the law says nothing about not saying or doing "gay." It only wants you to say and do it on your own time, and on your own dime.
Yet, in distorting the intended purpose of the law, the sex-oriented Cultural Left and the Biden corporate American media unwittingly acknowledge the success of their long-term political agenda has been dependent on parents being AWOL from the classroom. Namely, the sex-based Cultural Left have counted on the guarantees of academic freedom offered by the American school system to dutifully take advantage of it, to instill the ideological presuppositions that go along with the practices, the ethos, and the aesthetics of homosexuality, transsexuality, “non-binarism," and "gender-fluidity," or in one word, queering, into their students. At the same time, they have exploited to the same end the guarantees, not universally afforded to parents by the American school system, regarding their right-to-know, and their right to object to whatever their children are exposed to by their teachers that might lie outside their core curricula. The leftist cadres recognize without acknowledging it that it’s been the lack of formalized parental rights that has made possible, for quite a long time now, the inosculation into the children in their charge of far more than what parents send their sons and daughters to school for with the expectation that they will or would become proficient in, to prepare them to do well in the higher levels ahead.
In addition, the Cultural Left, by dint of having its cadres employed by the school system as teachers, supervisors, counselors, etc., has been able to finance its long-term proselytizing program, indirectly and unofficially but very effectively, toward the fulfillment of its ultimate cultural and political strategy. If you do not yet know, as a tactic and as a strategy the queering does not merely seek the "acceptance," "tolerance," and/or the "gay-friendliness" which in previous decades was reasonably demanded from society by the homosexualist and transsexualist movements of the Eighties and the Nineties. That phase in the “Gay Agenda” of yore has been completed and surpassed, and the LGBTTTQQIAA+ has long ago moved far beyond those demands in the wake of the Obama government’s out-and-out support for their cause. Instead, the queering means the slow, patient takeover by those movements of all available institutions whose policies can be adapted to reflect the rationalizations on which for instance a five-year-old boy or girl would demand a sex-change and get it, or on which the advocates of such medical procedurals can justify leaving their parents out of the decision process thereof, in accordance with new laws the LGBTTTQQIAA+ aspires to set in place when the time is nigh. But the queering also seeks the inside-out transformation of institutions and organizations into instruments whose roles contemplate the issuing of the policies that might lead to reversing the relation of power throughout society between, on the one hand, “normative” heterosexuality (especially when it coincides with being male and white), and the whole gamut of sexualities, sub-sexualities, and para-sexualities comprehended in the ever-expanding sexualitarianism represented in the consonant umbrella that so far knows itself as the “LGBTTTQQIAA+.”
One should enlighten oneself about this. The “queering” pursued by the LGBTTTQQIAA+ presupposes the conversion of all social expressions and manifestations into, and the bringing-about of, a state of things (a political order) that could be conducive to the philosophical and moral undermining and destabilization of all "hetero-normative" sexualities. The queering and the methods employed thereof, move toward the displacement from its overall centrality what in leftist sexual ideologies, like feminism, homosexualism, transsexualism, and to some extent, wokism conceive of as the hetero-racist-patriarchalism that supposedly belongs with the capitalist society. To accomplish this, American children are needed.
Such being the program of the sex-based leftist culture and political activism in America and elsewhere in the West, the legitimate presence in the classroom of its enforcers and adherents, for instance, as teachers, facilitates, and by the same token veils, that combatting the "hetero-racist-patriarchalism" by transsexualism and homosexualism is indirectly subsidized by taxpayers (parents) who, until recently, were not even considered to be politically fit to have a say in the extra-curricular pedo-logy practiced on their children by teachers with an extra-pedagogical agenda.
It can maybe be understandable that by conceiving of capitalism as structured by and functioning on an axis of "hetero-racial-patriarchalism," sexuality, sexual preference, and sexual orientation get endowed with a political identity which is, at the very least, necessarily left-leaning. Conversely, having a left-leaning political identity (ideology) that is set up against the capitalist "hetero-racial-patriarchalism" axis logically leads to not only being partial to homosexualism, transsexualism, feminism, and, even if morphologically inconsistent with its prefix, also to an "antiracism" which is nothing but "racism" by an oppositional name.
The sexualitarian LGBTTTQQIAA+ counts on some children growing up to get only half-way there and before they turn out to be bi-sexual or "gender-fluid" anti-patriarchal antiracists. But it also counts on some children growing up and going the full distance into homosexualism and transsexualism while remaining antiracist and anti-patriarchalist all the same. The ideologic-identitarian axis inculcated into children from a very young age ostensibly guarantees that for instance, girls will be literally open to get digital on each other in the name of "sticking it to the patriarchy" and that boys will likewise be available to literally dick each other up in the name of "sticking it to The Man" of the saying. But all in all, it also guarantees that both groups will grow up to find that something is "wrong" with a gender that has allegedly been assigned to them by "normative-heterosexuality." This has been happening continuously in America for the last forty years. Ever since the Seventies of the last century, both Democrats and Republican governments alike have indirectly or directly been supporting the ideologic-identitarian axis that has managed to produce the femino-homo-transsexualist governments of Obama and by Biden, respectively. So, these governments account as the tangible measurement of the great success of the sexual politics and the cultural strategies of the Cultural Left.
I take it is widely understood that this is the onus of the LGBTTTQQIAA+’s “struggle” against male and female heterosexuality: it wants for itself the power and the authority to assign gender(s) to newborns and “old-born” alike, by making the ethos and the rationales prevail on which the policies and the laws are put into place by society to this effect.
Hence the large number of five- and six-year-olds who have been demanding and getting sex-change medical intervention everywhere the LGBTTTQQIAA+ activism is powerful enough: in all the libero-progressive democracies of the West.
As corresponds to the axial politics of the Cultural Left, while young girls and boys get primed by the LGBTTTQQIAA+ since an early age to "fight" on their beds and the dark corners of life against what they have been taught is the "racist-hetero-normative-capitalism" which they refer to as "the patriarchy," they are also set up by the same mechanism to indiscriminately intermix sexually, and maybe "fall in love" with each other, both across-gender and inter-gender — all done on the basis and for the benefit of a multipolar "anti" identitarian politics. Therefore, multifaceted confusion has been dominating in everything "liberal," "democratic," or/and "progressive." For, the queering means that everything sexual, the reality and the symbols thereof, are to be rendered or must fashion itself into something calculatedly ambiguous, ambivalent, shape-shifting, and collapsible and bendable, and/or "fluid." Nothing and no one are supposed to be what is but what it is claimed to be. Why be shocked then to find out that a supposedly female judge to be enthroned as a Justice does not know what "Woman" means?
Therefore, that is the political import of the reaction begun in Florida by Governor DeSantis. Yet, that should be regarded as only the beginning of the push to bring the school system of his state back to the day before the queering began of practically everything in human and, frankly, even animal sexuality and its representations.
To move the schools back to the day before the queering got started philosophical implies to bring it back to the day before philosophers like Foucault and Derrida, for instance, entered the American universities and colleges. Historically, it was through the wholesale, uncritical but self-interested shoveling down, by the "gay" liberationist movement, feminism, and "antiracist" wokism, of some nebulous strands in the philosophy of these Frenchmen, that the sophistry, obfuscation, and obscurantism informing the political correctness of the LGBTTTQQIAA+ were first set in motion in America. It has been spreading ever since. It can presently be detected everywhere whether as a "struggle against 'hetero-normative'" sexualities, as "struggle against the patriarch-capitalist" society and authorities, and/or as a "struggle against white supremacist racism." These are not just slogans.
They are the signages of the ideologic-political leftist axis that parents in Florida are reacting against, knowingly or not. For over four decades now, veiled by the demand for "equality," Americans and people elsewhere have been consuming heavy doses of that, served to them as click-bait-bait-and-switch gags by Hollywood, American liberal art colleges, the media, Netflix, HBO, Disney, and the rest of the almost endless outlets of the Cultural Left. It is everywhere, veiled, open, and, latent in the idea of education most favored by the Biden corporate media. That is what gets theoretically rationalized and weaponized through the activism American liberal college offers in lieu of an education. And finally, that is the content which, embellished and camouflaged in Hollywood, Disney, and so on, gets streamed directly to American homes. The ideological axis of the Cultural Left (the strategies it displays to overcome the “hetero-normative-racist-patriarchal-capitalism”), is the stuff that runs through, and brings together, the production, technologies, and logistic of the American culture we all are to be so proud of. Governor DeSantis has begun to say we have had enough of that. For indeed, we have.
People should say "gay" and do "gay" to one another— if that makes them happy. But not on tax-payer's money and resources. They ought to do that in their own time and on their own dime. No children allowed, though.