Alabama “Don’t Say Gay” Expansion Dies For Session

The Alabama Reflector reports:

A bill that would have expanded Alabama’s “Don’t Say Gay” law died on the final day of the 2024 regular session.

HB 130, sponsored by Rep. Mack Butler, R-Rainbow City, would have extended Alabama’s prohibition on discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity from kindergarten to fifth grade to kindergarten to eighth grade. It also would have banned flags or other insignia indicating gender identity or sexual orientation.

But Butler said he would bring the bill back next year. He said that he has not met any parents who want the topics discussed in schools and claimed that “there is a move across this nation to sexualize our children.”

Read the full article. Butler also added the state-run Space Camp to the bill, which was originally written to include grades K-12. According to Butler, the change to K-8 came due to a request by state education officials. Butler first appeared here in 2017 for his successful bill to protect Confederate monuments.

A bill that would have expanded Alabama’s “Don’t Say Gay” law died on the final day of the 2024 regular session.

via @ALReflector @JK_Stephenson https://t.co/K85tCLBXd0

— News from the States (@statesnewsroom) May 13, 2024

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