Florida S0440

“Gender ideology” means the false belief that replaces the biological category of sex with an ever-shifting concept of self-assessed gender identity, permitting the false claim that males can identify as and become women and vice versa, and requiring all institutions of society to regard this false claim as true. The term includes the idea that there is a vast spectrum of genders that are disconnected from a person’s sex. The term is internally inconsistent in that it diminishes sex as an identifiable or useful category but nevertheless maintains that it is possible for a person to be born in the wrong sexed body.

It is the policy of this state that a person’s sex is an immutable biological trait and that it is false to ascribe to a person a pronoun that does not correspond to such person’s sex.

An employee or a contractor may not be required [...] to refer to another person using that person’s preferred pronouns if such pronouns do not correspond to that person’s sex.

An employee or a contractor may not require an employer to use his or her preferred pronouns if such preferred pronouns do not correspond to the employee’s or contractor’s sex.

A job application or other related employment form that requires an applicant to mark his or her sex may only inquire if the applicant is male or female and may not provide a nonbinary or other option.

It is an unlawful employment practice for an employer to take adverse personnel action against an employee or a contractor because of the employee’s or contractor’s deeply held religious, moral, conscience-based, or biology-based beliefs, including a belief in traditional or Biblical views of sexuality and marriage, or the employee’s or contractor’s disagreement with gender ideology, whether those views are expressed by the employee or contractor at or away from the worksite.

It is an unlawful employment practice for the state or any county, municipality, special district, or other political subdivision to require, as a condition of employment, any training, instruction, or other activity on sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.