It isn’t just Florida. A police officer in Fort Worth told a street preacher at an “all-ages Pride event” that he could be cited for calling a cross-dressing man “sir”:

🚨FORT WORTH, TEXAS🚨Police told street preachers at the FW all-ages Pride event they could be cited if someone was offended by their speech. Asked if calling a transgender woman “sir” was citable, an officer replied, “It’s a gray area.”

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— Carlos Turcios (@Carlos__Turcios) June 28, 2026

As Amy Curtis observes at Townhall,

You do not have a right not to be offended. Even the racial slurs the officer mentions are still protected speech. Some may find that abhorrent, but it’s protected nonetheless. The First Amendment isn’t written to protect polite speech. It’s meant to protect the controversial speech; without that, we do not have free speech.

Being offended is how protected groups exert power over the rest of us. Expect the First Amendment to be rendered null and void soon after Democrats pack the Supreme Court with leftist apparatchiks.

On a tip from Wiggins.