Ron DeSantis Shreds Reporter Who Asked About ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Legislation

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been the subject of attacks over a bill in his state legislature that many Democrat pundits and some in the media have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

But the firebrand Republican faced off with reporters this week over, what he believes in their misrepresentation of the legislation and what it says, Breitbart News reported.

“I’m just curious, you call it that. I have not seen that in any of these bills. Where is that coming from?” he said to a reporter who questioned him on the matter.

“You’re in the news business, does the truth matter or not? Is that in any of the bills, yes or no? I understand what you’re doing,” he said to the reporter, as he explained that the bill was not his but something the state legislature wanted to pursue.

“So I start getting asked this by the media and I’m just thinking to myself, ok, they’re getting spun up, I see — you know how this works, right? And I was like, there is no way it’s true. And I didn’t even look at the bill yet. I just knew it wasn’t true,” the governor said.

“And so you actually look at the bill, and it says no sexual instruction in grades pre-k through three. And so how many parents want their kindergarteners to have transgenderism or something injected into classroom instruction? And so I think those are very young kids. I think the legislature is basically trying to give parents assurance that, you know, they’re going to be able to go and this stuff’s not going to be there,” he said. And he stressed that there was“nothing in the bill that says anything about you can’t say or this say.”

“It’s basically saying for our youngest students — 4 year olds, 5 year olds, 6 years and 7 – do you really want them to be being taught about — and this is any sexual stuff, but I think clearly right now we see a lot of focus on the transgenderism, telling kids that they may be able to pick genders and all that,” he said, citing his belief that he did not think parents wanted that for their kids.

“I think that’s what they’re [the legislature] trying to do, and I think that’s justifiable. I think it’s inappropriate to be injecting those matters like a transgenderism in a kindergarten classroom,” he said.

“At the same time, if you oppose that, you have a responsibility to be honest about it. What about that specifically. Yeah, you can create a false narrative, you can stage a protest, you can do all those things, but you’re not telling the truth about what’s actually there,” the governor said, again stressing that he did not have a “dog in the fight because it was not my legislation.”

“The legislature took the lead on it, but when I hear these things and then I look on the paper about what it is, there’s this massive gulf between what it actually says with respect to these very young kids versus what some of these protests in the capital or whatever are about,” he said.

The governor said that people are accepting the narrative of progressives and activists but that they should be “very, very careful” about listening to what people say and not examining things for themselves.

“I haven’t seen any of that in the bills that are actually presented to me,” the governor said.

He also said that protecting kids for subjects that are inappropriate for some age groups is “something I think most parents would appreciate.”

He said that kids should be learning the basics in school and not subjects that are not “age-appropriate.”