<p>Bravo TV host Andy Cohen called out the Florida Senate for passing the so-called &#8220;Don&#8217;t Say Gay&#8221; bill and sent a message to Republican politicians that they weren&#8217;t &#8220;going to erase&#8221; gay people with their &#8220;homophobic&#8221; bill.</p>
<p>&#8220;I want to address some personally disturbing news coming out of Florida,&#8221; Cohen shared Tuesday in a clip he posted on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca3mNPgoyzo/">Instagram</a> from his show &#8220;Watch What Happens Live.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The so-called &#8216;Don&#8217;t Say Gay&#8217; bill,&#8217; which bans teachers up to third grade from discussing sexual orientation or gender identity in their curriculum passed the state Senate today,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is expected to sign it into law.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;First to Florida Republicans, you&#8217;re pretending to solve a problem that doesn&#8217;t exist,&#8221; Cohen continued.  &#8220;There is not a mass conspiracy of kindergarten teachers who are plotting to teach children to be gay. This is one big dog whistle. You&#8217;re scaring people into spewing hate and discrimination at the LGBTQ community.&#8221;</p>
<p>The TV host admitted the actual bill HB 1557 doesn&#8217;t actually use the words &#8220;don&#8217;t say gay&#8221; in it, but he said he&#8217;s concerned about the &#8220;deliberately vague language&#8221; he said &#8220;leaves room for it to be interpreted that way.&#8221;</p>
<p>Cohen then asked if it would be &#8220;considered illegal&#8221; if his son went to school and talked about &#8220;his gay dad during class and the teacher engaged&#8221; according to the new &#8220;vague, hateful law.&#8221;</p>
<p>He also blasted Senator Ileana Garcia (R-FL), who he claimed said on the state&#8217;s Senate floor that &#8220;being gay is not a permanent thing. LGBT is not a permanent thing.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Sweetie with all due respect, it&#8217;s permanent,&#8221; Cohen said, pointing back at himself. &#8220;Trust me.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I thought the whole point of sending our kids to school was to educate them and prepare them for the real world,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Well, newsflash, the real world has gay people in it. It has people of all different gender identities. You can draft all the homophobic and transphobic bills you want, you&#8217;re not going to erase us. I just wonder how many children and families need to suffer before our politicians figure that out.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/floridas-lgbtq-bill-is-being-wildly-misrepresented-here-are-the-facts">Florida&#8217;s HB 1557</a>, does not use the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/floridas-lgbtq-bill-is-being-wildly-misrepresented-here-are-the-facts">word &#8220;gay&#8221; anywhere in the bill</a>. It is <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/02/24/1082969036/florida-house-passes-controversial-measure-dubbed-the-dont-say-gay-bill-by-criti">critics</a> of the bill that have labeled it the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Say Gay Bill.&#8221;</p>
<p>HB 1557 reinforces the &#8220;fundamental right of parents to make decisions regarding the upbringing and control of their children,&#8221; as previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/floridas-lgbtq-bill-is-being-wildly-misrepresented-here-are-the-facts">reported</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;A school district may not adopt procedures or student support forms that prohibit school district personnel from notifying a parent about his or her student’s mental, emotional, or physical health or well-being, or a change in related services or monitoring, or that encourage or have the effect of encouraging a student to withhold from a parent such information,&#8221; the legislation reads.</p>
<p>&#8220;School district personnel may not discourage or prohibit parental notification of and involvement in critical decisions affecting a student’s mental, emotional, or physical health or well-being,&#8221; it added.</p>
<p><strong>RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-view-misleads-about-what-floridas-so-called-lgbtq-bill-is-about">&#8216;The View&#8217; Misleads About What Florida&#8217;s So-Called &#8216;LGBTQ Bill&#8217; Is About</a></strong></p>
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