Chasten Buttigieg Perfectly Critiques Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' Bill
he drew attention to a Trevor Project study that found that 42 percent of polled LGBTQ+ youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the year prior to being polled.
Proponents of the bill argue that it protects parents rights to raise their children as they see fit.In the CNN interview, Buttigieg pointed out how impractical the new Florida legislation is for students who are children of same-sex parents as they would not be able to speak about their own home life.
It would also force students themselves to be closeted. "I grew up in northern Michigan and in many ways it was similar to Florida in that you were just a good Christian country boy and that's all you could be," he explained. "There was no differentiating from the norm.
I grew up learning about Matthew Shepard and thought for sure that could happen to me if someone found out that I was different.
