DeSantis calls BS on transgenderism activists and woke corporations
Introductory remark for Trump supporters: Note that DeSantis’s emphasis here is NOT on himself or on his personal vanity. It is instead on the people!! And he is looking forward, NOT backward!!
Florida governor Ron DeSantis issued a sharp rebuke of Disney on Thursday, calling out the company’s “woke” stance on the state’s Parental Rights in Education bill and its ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
DeSantis telling supporters in Boca Raton that Florida’s policies must be based on the “best interest of Florida citizens, not on the musings of woke corporations.
DeSantis’s comments come one day after he fielded a concerned call from Disney CEO Bob Chapek and company executives over the bill, which prohibits gender-ideology and sexual-orientation curriculum for kindergartners through third-graders in the state. The bill passed the state legislature on Tuesday. DeSantis is expected to sign the bill into law imminently.
On Thursday, DeSantis said there is “zero” chance he will change his position on prohibiting the instruction of “transgenderism in kindergarten classrooms.”
“When you have companies that have made a fortune off being family friendly and catering to families and young kids, they should understand that parents of young kids do not want this injected into their kids’ kindergarten classroom,” he said.
“You have companies, like at Disney, that are going to say and criticize parents’ rights, they’re going to criticize the fact that we don’t want transgenderism in kindergarten, in first-grade classrooms,” he added. “If that’s the hill they’re going to die on, then how do they possibly explain lining their pockets with their relationship from the Communist Party of China? Because that’s what they do, and they make a fortune, and they don’t say a word about the really brutal practices that you see over there at the hands of the CCP.”
This is what we need, an individual who will stand up against this woke nonsense and label it as the BS it certainly is. This sort of thing has to be priority one, not a rehash of the 2020 election and wasting time on a list of personal grievances. I don’t give a damn about Trump’s feud with Rosie O’Donnell, or his other private issues. What matters instead is opposition to far left insanity and restoration of traditional American values.
DeSantis has his priorities straight