In case you were wondering, Florida Republicans’ mission to erase the public existence of all LGBTQIA people is still going strong.

When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed the state’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill into law, he and the bill’s other supporters claimed its only purpose was to keep young children from learning about things like “gender identity” in schools. They said this loudly and repeatedly, but in addition to displaying a fundamental misunderstanding of what gender identity actually is, it was always clear that that was a lie. The real goal of the new law, it was obvious, was to push LGBTQ+ people into the shadows and into the closet, permanently.