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

Florida’s state athletic board fined a high school and put it on probation Tuesday after a transgender student played on the girls volleyball team, a violation of a controversial law enacted by Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Legislature.

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.

The 2021 law, which supporters named “The Fairness in Women’s Sports Act,” bars transgender girls and women from playing on public school teams intended for student athletes identified as girls at birth.

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.

    • @givesomefucksEnglish
      76•1 year ago

      It’s intentional.

      Make a state shitty enough that everyone with a brain leaves and Republicans get two locked in Senators along with the electoral college votes for president.

      -Sent from a shitty red state I refuse to give up on

      • @[email protected]
        21•1 year ago

        Yup.

        -Sent from the awesome blue state I fled to from Florida

        (I’m trans. Florida has never been worth dying for.)

        • @RizzRustbolt
          3•1 year ago

          Oh no… there’s a lot more wrong with Ohio than just Conservatives.

          • @EmpathicVagrant
            6•1 year ago

            It really is just more and more of an endless cesspool the longer you look at it.

      • @andros_rex
        15•1 year ago

        The whammy is when your hell hole state is low cost of living, so you get paid too little to be able to afford to leave. It’s also hard to be competitive when you rank LOL in education. They know if they keep us poor we can’t afford to leave.

        It sucks, because I can feel the hostility towards my existence. I can’t safely pursue my career here. I’m done fighting for my state but I can’t get the fuck out.

        • proleEnglish
          3•1 year ago

          It’s pretty fucked up when we need to start having non-profits take in refugees from a different state.