A set of Florida bills ban diversity, equity, and inclusion programs as well as the use of personal pronouns.
On May 3, Florida’s Republican legislators passed a collection of bills that cut funding for diversity programs and banned teachers from using preferred pronouns or names that don’t correspond to their assigned birth sex.
The sister bills—House Bill 999, sponsored by state Rep. Alex Andrade and Senate Bill 266, sponsored by state Sen. Erin Grall—prohibit colleges and universities from using state and federal funds for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. The measures also prohibit higher education institutions from offering majors or minors in critical race theory, gender studies, or intersectionality. The bills also include measures to the grant hiring and firing power of faculty to university boards of trustees appointed by DeSantis and give these boards the authority to subject tenured faculty to a job review at any time….