Florida governor stands his ground against Disney: “We don’t want transgenderism in kindergarten”

“In the state of Florida, we are not going to allow them to inject transgenderism into kindergarten. First graders shouldn’t have woke gender ideology in their curriculums. And that’s what we’re standing for,” DeSantis said. “And I can tell you this: The chance that I am going to back down from my commitment to students and back down from my commitment to parents’ rights simply because of fraudulent media narratives or pressure from woke corporations, the chances of that are zero.”

“Parents don’t want this injected into their kid’s kindergarten classroom. They do not want their first grader to go and be told that they can choose an opposite gender. That is not appropriate for those kids,” he said. “So if you’re family friendly, understand that the parents who are actually raising families want to have their rights respected.”

Then he honed in on Disney and took a hard right into conspiratorial thinking by blaming the Chinese Communist Party.

“And I also think you have companies, like a 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 or first grade classrooms. If that’s the hill that they are to die on, then how do they possibly explain lining their pockets with their relationship from the Communist Party of China?”