The debate over whether Florida gay teachers can display spouse photos Readers contacted The Fact Checker after White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, at the White House lectern, lambasted an expansion of Florida's Parental Rights in Education Act, popularly known among critics as the "don't say gay" law. "Under threat of having their licenses revoked, gay teachers have been forced to take down pictures of their spouses from their desks and censor their classroom materials," she said. Many readers believed that to be flatly incorrect. We dug deep into the issue and found the answer is more complicated. There's a difference between what the law actually says and the practical impact it is having on teachers in the state. Jean-Pierre earned Two Pinocchios. Click to read our complete report. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we'll check it out. Trump versus Biden heats up President Biden this week announced that he was running for president with a gauzy video, and former president Donald Trump, running hard for his old job, immediately followed with his own video response. We did a line-by-line dissection of Trump's many false claims. Please click the link to read more. Meanwhile, we also awarded Biden a Bottomless Pinocchio for his repeated claim that his policies have led to a $1.7 trillion reduction in the federal budget deficit in his first two years as president. The deficit picture has worsened because of his policies and so Biden increased the national debt about $850 billion more than originally projected. A politician earns a Bottomless Pinocchio if he or she repeats at least 20 time a claim that had earned a Three or Four Pinocchio rating. Click the link to read the full report. We're always looking for fact-check suggestions. You can reach us via email, Twitter (@GlennKesslerWP and @AdriUsero) or Facebook. Read about our process and rating scale here, and sign up for the newsletter here. Scroll down to read other fact checks on LGBTQ issues. | 
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