College Students Protest DeSantis In Statewide Walkout

The Orlando Sentinel reports:

For University of Central Florida students Izzie Uribe and Niyanna Jeffcoat, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ efforts to dismantle diversity and inclusion programs and interrogate campuses about health services provided to transgender students pose an imminent threat to their campus. The pair stood with hundreds of their peers on the university’s Memory Mall on Thursday afternoon, protesting what they view as an attack on higher education by DeSantis and other state Republican leaders.

The demonstration was one of several “Stand up for Freedom” walk-outs that took place at university campuses across the state. Many of the students who attended Thursday’s protest at UCF, which lasted more than an hour, held up signs with messages like “Kick DeSantis out of education,” “Stand up against facism,” “Diversity is power,” and “What happened to the First Amendment? If DeSantis is not stopped, Jeffcoat said, “our degrees could be worth nothing.”

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