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.

  • proleEnglish
    4•11 months ago

    I bet you can’t name 3 more examples beyond the one in your comment.

    It’s such a non-issue. Trans people make up, what, 0.01% of the population? And what % of those are in competitive sports? People need to get a grip.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•11 months ago

      Here’s a few that was able to find in this article.

      • Juniper Eastwood
      • Natalie Fahey
      • CeCé Telfer
      • Athena Del Rosario
      • Erica Smith
      • Gabbi Ludwig

      Some became National champions as individuals and as part of a team. I’m sure there’s some that cause more controversy than others, but the point is that this is a relatively new scenario that’s only going to be more common as time passes. Already there’s a statistically significant amount of competitions that have been won by transgender athletes.

      • proleEnglish
        2•11 months ago

        Gonna start my response with this as I know most people will see a long comment and won’t read it, and this might be the most important takeaway: a website about LGBTQ+ issues in sports seemed interesting, but the fact that the entire article seemed to be about counting and naming every single trans athlete they can find, I decided to do a quick search to find out what this site is about.

        Sure enough:

        In spring 2023, Zeigler was criticized for his public transition to the Republican Party and for his endorsement of Governor Ron DeSantis for the 2024 United States presidential election.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsports?wprov=sfla1

        So either you’re aware that you’re purposely misleading people by using disingenuous, bad faith sources, or you didn’t do 30 seconds of research before posting what is clearly anti-trans agitprop.

        Do better.

        Now that’s out of the way:

        You have (perhaps purposely) misconstrued my request. I wasn’t asking for trans athletes, I was asking for trans athletes that have “dominated” in their respective sport.

        And what do you know, even the article in the bigoted rag you linked to says,

        Three trans athletes we know of — Lia Thomas (swimming), CeCé Telfer (track & field) and Braeden Abrahamsen (bowling) — won a national championship, with Telfer and Thomas winning individual titles.

        I can tell you with 100% certainty that, if they knew about more than 3, they would have been listed in that article. I have zero doubt in my mind.

        • @[email protected]English
          -1•11 months ago

          You said:

          I bet you can’t name 3 more examples beyond the one in your comment.

          You were asking for 3 more examples and I provided them. So now you’re trying to move the goalposts.

          It may be a rag, but I only used it as a source for fact checking. I’m not going to source check something that’s easily verified. I went to the first source that presented a list and a brief summary of their athletic activity. The whole “do better” rhetoric is such a bore. Do better at what? I’ve already mentioned in other comments that I’m pro LGBT rights and actively help athletes that are openly gay and/or gender dysphoric. Instead of attacking fact with empty rebuttals, maybe you should “do better”.

          • proleEnglish
            2•11 months ago

            Making excuses for basing your beliefs on obvious propaganda. Pretty sad, dude. Especially since you know you’re doing it. You should be embarrassed.