Florida Policy Action Network

01/26/2022

URGENT ACTION: Call-in January 27th or Today

Florida has no regulatory statute that guarantees lead-free clean drinking water for our children in public schools. In fact, most of the school districts in the state don’t even test school water for toxins. This year only we have federal funds to pay for putting filters and drinking stations in all our schools to STOP POISONING OUR CHILDREN.

We need you to call the Chair of the Florida House Early Learning and Elementary Education Committee (Rep. Vance Aloupis at 850-717-5115 ) and the Chair of the Senate Education Committee (Senator Joe Gruters at 850-487-5023) and ask them to put the Drinking Water in Public Schools bill on the agenda in their committee and save our children!

Click below to recieve a call-in script and more information on the Get the Lead Out bills.

Children in Florida NEED YOUR HELP: We need you to call the Chair of the Florida House Early Learning and Elementary Education Committee Rep. Vance Aloupis and the Chair of the Senate Education Committee Senator Joe Gruters and ask them to put the Drinking Water in Public Schools on the agenda!!

11/08/2021

REGISTER BELOW:

Become a trans+ and reproductive health AMBASSADOR. This online training will educate and update you on Florida transgender, gender non-conforming and reproductive justice legislative issues and plug you in to advocate for trans+ and reproductive justice during interim committee weeks and in the 2022 legislative session.

Join trans-led organizers at Florida Coalition for Transgender Liberation and Planned Parenthood organizers to discuss the legislative layout for trans+ and reproductive justice this legislative session and learn more about how to meet with legislators and advocate in your own local area.

11/08/2021

REGISTER BELOW:

Become a trans+ and reproductive health AMBASSADOR. This online training will educate to educate and update you on Florida transgender, gender non-conforming and reproductive justice legislative issues and plug you in yo advocate for trans+ and reproductive justice during interim committee weeks and in the 2022 legislative session.

Join trans-led organizers at Florida Coalition for Transgender Liberation and Planned Parenthood organizers to discuss the legislative layout for trans+ and reproductive justice this legislative session and learn more about how to meet with legislators and advocate in your own local area.

05/26/2021

The legislation would bar Internet companies from suspending political candidates in the run-up to elections. It also would also make it easier for the Florida state attorney general and individuals to bring lawsuits when they think the tech companies have acted unfairly.

Legal experts and tech industry trade groups immediately raised concerns about the constitutionality of the law and warned that it gives the government too much power over online speech.

The legislation would punish companies that suspend political candidates, and it would make it easier to bring lawsuits against tech companies.

04/29/2021

This piece....

“Emily Denise Gray is a trans woman from Bay County.

“We don’t just wake up one day and say, ‘hey you know what would be fun, let me just lose half of my family and friends and see if I get murdered.’ You just don’t do that,” she said. “All to play on a female’s sports team and maybe get a scholarship? That’s silly. No one does that.”

Florida’s transgender athlete ban was revived and passed by both chambers late Wednesday as an amendment to a different bill.

04/29/2021

URGENT ACTION NEEDED - Protect Trans+ Youth

In a corrupt backroom deal that silenced thousands speaking out to protect transgender, gender non-conforming, intersex and non-binary youth in Florida the Florida Legislature passed the anti-trans youth athlete bill in the late evening of Wednesday, April 28th, 2021.

JOIN the statewide trans-led Florida Coalition for Transgender Liberation in demanding that Governor Ron DeSantis VETO the anti-trans youth athlete ban. Click the image below to SEND AN EMAIL TODAY.

Last night in a corrupt negotion the Florida Legislature passed the anti-trans youth athlete bill. Join the state's largest trans-led advocacy group in demanding that Governor Ron DeSantis veto the bill and protect Florida's economy from boycott while also protecting trans+ and intersex youth.

04/28/2021

BREAKING NEWS about the Florida Anti-Trans Youth Athlete Ban:

The Florida Legislature is pushing a last minute amendment to SB 1028 (the big charter school bill) that would include the anti-trans youth athlete ban in the overall education bill. This is the worst kind of trickery. Please stay tuned. We knew it wasn’t over and now they are pulling last minute power politics to pass the bill.

FYI - Amendment #6499221 amendment to #357618 to CS/CS/SB 1028 - They are Having questions on the amendment right now.

04/22/2021

Willow Leech is a trans woman. She said she wasn’t ready to come out publicly until later in life. And if she had been forced to come out earlier, she might not be here today.

“I would’ve been laughed at, harassed, bullied, assaulted,” she said. “I may well have been beaten or r***d. Driven to depression or self-harm. And committed su***de rather than continue to be treated as an abomination by the institutions that are supposed to protect us.”

Following the passage of the ‘Parents Bill of Rights’, activists in Florida warn the state is becoming unsafe for LGBTQ youth.

04/19/2021

Thanks to our Guest Writer: Darwin Gamble

"Governor Ron DeSantis this morning surrounded himself with legislative leaders, two cabinet officers, and several law enforcement personnel--all white--and except for Attorney General Ashley Moody--all male. One purpose of the gathering was to show the governor signing HB 1 into law. But the event also gave DeSantis an opportunity to blow racist dog whistles in the direction of white Republican voters. "

April 19, 2021 - Contributor Darwin Gamble speaks out on the racism implied in Governor Ron DeSantis's "signing of HB1" press conference today. Governor Ron DeSantis this morning surrounded himself with legislative leaders, two cabinet officers, and several law enforcement personnel--all white--and....