Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis exposed the graphic imagery from “woke” children’s books that his state has been pushing to ban from schools.
As DeSantis noted, those books are being promoted by the Democrats and can still be found in California’s schools.
DeSantis showed the graphic images during his debate on Thursday night with California’s Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom.
The moment came during the Fox News debate in Georgia after Newsom was trying to defend his record on parental rights.
DeSantis argued that the materials children are shown in schools must be “age appropriate.”
“The role of the school is to educate kids, not indoctrinate kids,” DeSantis asserted.
“It’s not to impose an agenda.
“It’s to do the basics,” DeSantis continued.
“And what we’ve said in Florida is it’s inappropriate to tell a kindergartener that their gender is a choice, it’s inappropriate to tell a second grader that they may have been born in the wrong body.”
“Now California has that, they want to have that injected into the elementary school.
“My wife and I have a seven, five, and a three-year-old,” he noted.
“We don’t think that that’s appropriate.
“I know most parents do not think it’s appropriate.
“It’s also important to respect parental rights to know what curriculum is being used in the classroom, and everything should be age-appropriate.”
“So this is a book that’s in some of the schools in California,” DeSantis added as he removed printed images from his inside pocket.
“In Florida, this is not consistent with our standards.”
The book is “called, ‘Gender Queer,’” DeSantis explained.
“Some of it’s blacked out,” he noted as he held the images up.
“You would not probably be able to put this on air.
“This is pornography. It’s cartoons.
“It’s aimed at children and it’s wrong.
“So this should not be in schools when people like on the left say that is not age appropriate.”
WATCH:
DeSantis highlights the smut in woke children’s books that Newsom supports children being indoctrinated with. pic.twitter.com/UFbcyuQPgD
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) December 1, 2023
