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Resistance Report Week 5: Victory on the Frontlines
Equality Florida's week five Resistance Report celebrates the Pride Flag Ban Bill being stopped in the Florida Senate, support for the abortion ballot amendment at the state Supreme Court, and grassroots DMV protests over the transgender license policy.
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Equality Florida’s Response To Pride Flag Ban Bill Stalling In Florida Senate
Equality Florida hailed the stalling of a Florida Senate bill to ban the rainbow flag as a significant victory, noting that the bill's chief supporter, John Labriola of the Christian Family Coalition, likened LGBTQ Floridians to demons during the committee hearing.
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Resistance Report Week 4: An Unprecedented Attack
Equality Florida's week four Resistance Report details the DeSantis administration's memo rescinding transgender residents' ability to update license gender markers, a virtual town hall with Southern Legal Counsel, and names Rep. Gallop Franklin a winner and Rep. Doug Bankson a loser.
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Equality Florida Condemns New DeSantis Administration Policy Denying Legal Recognition, Accurate Driver Licenses/Identification for Transgender Floridians
Equality Florida's Nadine Smith condemned a new Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles memo rescinding the policy that let transgender residents update gender markers on driver's licenses and IDs, calling it a cruel attack that threatens civil and criminal penalties.
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Resistance Report Week 3: Bad Bills Are Moving
Equality Florida's week three Resistance Report covers the Florida Board of Governors' approval of rules dismantling university diversity programs and removing sociology as a core course, plus moving anti-LGBTQ bills, naming Reps. Bartleman and Woodson winners and DeSantis the loser.
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FL Board of Governors Pass Unprecedented Rules That Impose Unconstitutional Censorship and Strip Academic Freedom
Equality Florida's Carlos Guillermo Smith condemned the Florida Board of Governors for passing rules that abolish diversity and inclusion programs at state universities and eliminate sociology as a core course, calling them unconstitutional censorship that strips academic freedom.
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Resistance Report Week 2: Divorcing from DeSantis
Equality Florida's week two Resistance Report recaps its Pride At The Capitol kickoff, where 225-plus volunteers demanded lawmakers reject DeSantis's agenda, naming new Rep. Tom Keen a winner and Reps. Randy Fine and David Borrero losers over the Pride Flag Ban Bill.
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Equality Florida Rallies Hundreds in Tallahassee Against New Slate of Attacks
Hundreds of Floridians rallied at the state Capitol for Equality Florida's Pride At The Capitol against more than 20 new anti-LGBTQ bills, while advocates praised Democratic-sponsored Health Care Freedom Act and Freedom to Learn Act bills aimed at restoring rights lost under DeSantis.
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Equality Florida 2024 Legislative Slate
Equality Florida's 2024 Legislative Slate tracks its positions and outcomes on bills including the Trans Erasure Bill, Don't Say Gay or Trans at Work, employment-protection preemption, the Pride Flag Ban, and a ban on law enforcement safe-space stickers, most of which were stopped or neutralized.
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Equality Florida Condemns DeSantis Administration’s Anti-LGBTQ Attacks Alongside Parents, Students, and Families
Parents, students, and community leaders joined Equality Florida in Fort Lauderdale to condemn Governor DeSantis's attacks on LGBTQ students, citing book bans, censored curriculum, and the upheaval at Monarch High School after a transgender student played girls volleyball.
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