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'Already, our children have told us that they are afraid that they will not be able to talk about their family at school,' Dan and Brent VanTice, parents of two first-grade students, said in the statement announcing the suit. The filing by Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP and the National Center for Lesbian Rights seeks to block the law from taking effect and also names Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran and other education officials as defendants. Efforts to restrict rights for LGBTQ youth Can states limit abortion and gender-affirming treatments outside their borders?