The Florida High School Athletic Association fined Monarch High $16,500 and placed the suburban Fort Lauderdale school on probation for 11 months.

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.

  • ZeroCool@feddit.chEnglish
    66·
    1 year ago

    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.

      • Th4tGuyII@kbin.social
        28·
        1 year ago

        Yeah. What a huge piece of shit going out of their way to rip the joy out of a poor kid’s hands like that.

        I hope that one day somebody fucks them over in the same way, just so they can get a taste of how that feels.

      • ZeroCool@feddit.chEnglish
        18·
        1 year 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·
    1 year 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·
    1 year ago

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

    • BruceTwarzen@kbin.social
      9·
      1 year ago

      When i was 12 i was the only boy who played volleyball. The teams we played were all girls as well and no one cared. I only played volleyball because i didn’t like soccer and i didn’t like the guys who played basketball. I mean mainly because of all the girls, but that’s not what i told them

    • ImADifferentBirdEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

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