In Florida, the state’s board of education expanded the Parental Rights in Education Act, or ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law to prevent students from kindergarten through grade 12 from discussing gender or sexual orientation in school in April. Gov. Ron DeSantis later fortified that change by signing legislation that bars discussions of sexual orientation or gender through eighth grade, prohibits staff and students from addressing each other with pronouns that differ from what they were assigned at birth, and defines sex on the basis of reproductive function.
The law, for instance, has been used against a teacher who allowed her students to view a Disney film that features gay characters.
TIME interviewed Michael Woods, a high school special education teacher in Palm Beach County School District who is organizing for the creation of a statewide LGBTQ+ teachers caucus.
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