Regarding the Florida law, yes the K-3 thing was a false flag cover. Nobody has ever been teaching sex ed - gay, straight, or otherwise - to kids in K-3. There is literally nothing to outlaw.

The real purpose of the law was twofold, first the chilling effect that it will have in older grades, making teachers and administrators even at the high school level wary of acknowledging and supporting LGBT students. The chilling effect has already started, and it's going to get worse not better.

The second is requiring schools in some circumstances to out LGBTQ children to their parents. Originally, the law did not contain an exception for students that school officials reasonably feared might be subjected to abuse or abandonment because of the outings. Political backlash cause that exception to be written into the law, but how it's interpreted is anybody's guess. Some conservative school administrators are undoubtedly going to out kids because they believe the law gives them cover to do that.

Many of us tried very hard in public education campaigns to keep the focus off the k-3 issue, which we knew was a decoy. I wrote many articles and included information in many other articles about the decidedly negative and real effects of the law.

Unfortunately, mainstream press was our enemy in this case. Everyone from the New York Times to the Washington Post, to CNN and MSNBC focused over and over again on the K-3 part, leading with it in every story, sometimes even neglecting to mention the parts of the law that we were most opposed to.