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Article by Associated Press: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' anti-trans law have resulted in a school getting fined for allowing a young trans girl to play sports in a girls' team.

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[–] ZeroCool@feddit.ch 66 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The student, a 10th grader who played in 33 matches over the last two seasons, was removed from the team last month after the Broward County School District was notified by an anonymous tipster about her participation. Her removal led hundreds of Monarch students to walk out of class two weeks ago in protest.

Good on those kids for standing up for their classmate. And good on the adults at the school that let her continue playing volleyball for as long as they could. Fuck DeSantis and fuck Florida.

[–] Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 48 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And fuck the anonymous tipster.

[–] ZeroCool@feddit.ch 18 points 10 months ago

Damn right. Imagine being such a piece of garbage that you choose to spend your free time trying to take a sport away from a 15 year old kid. It's unconscionable.

[–] Buffaloaf@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

The Florida High School Athletic Association fined Monarch High $16,500, ordered the principal and athletic director to attend rules seminars and placed the suburban Fort Lauderdale school on probation for 11 months, meaning further violations could lead to increased punishments. The association also barred the girl from participating in boys sports for 11 months.

This is insane

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

School doesn't have free speech rights to say this kid can play whatever sport they want? Hmm....

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 10 months ago

Republican state legislatures are trying to ban companies from not doing business with other companies over their public stances (ie: pulling advertising from Twitter because of the obvious). They only care about free hate speech.

See also: https://www.senate.mo.gov/24info/pdf-bill/intro/SB1061.pdf

[–] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago

The right wing concept of "free speech" is "I can say whatever I want and you can't say anything about it."