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.
Interesting how conservatives act like they really care about women’s sports if a trans girl is playing on the team, but they were over the moon when the USWNT got knocked out of the World Cup. And don’t even suggest they go to a WNBA game.
They want to hate trans people more than they care about the sports.
Her removal led hundreds of Monarch students to walk out of class two weeks ago in protest.
The kids are alright.
There could not be a more stark divide in attitudes, in my workplace, than between the boomers who are on the brink retiring, and the new kids fresh out of college. It gives me some hope for the future.
It’s not black and white, there are outliers, but by and large the boomers are fucking toxic. Good riddance.
Whats a Monarch Student? Is there an emperor one?
Just in training to arch Venture, nothing to see here.
Every good trans girl should follow in the footsteps of Dr. Mrs. The Monarch
Only once tho
When I was in school, there was only girls volleyball and no boy’s volleyball team so I have a question, say the person in this article wasn’t transgender but it was a boy (born with male genitalia and identifying as a male) who wanted to play volleyball. If there were no boy’s volleyball team at the school, would he be allowed to play on the girl’s team? I only ask because isn’t that how Title 9 has been interpreted?
This is anecdotal but I played hockey in high school and wrestled one year, we had a girl on our hockey team because we had no girl’s hockey team, she was a lot better than me too, I also remember one of our wrestlers wrestling a girl from another school because there was no girl’s wrestling team. There were no issues in either of those cases.
Regardless of all that, if there’s only one volleyball team at the school and it’s an all women sport, if a boy or transgender girl wants to play, it seems to me they should be allowed on that team if there’s no other opportunities for them to play.
I’ll finish this by saying: I am one person and these are my thoughts not a strong opinion that I’m going to live or die by so I don’t want to start an argument , just a discussion.
Yeah, I worked at a school where a cis girl played on a football team where all the other players were boys. It was never a problem.
Way before women’s football or soccer if anyone prefers girls would have had to play on boys teams because there were very few girls teams/clubs and honestly ten year olds aren’t going to give a shit if a girl wants to kick a ball around with them.
Yes, that literally has never been the problem.
I think this has always been the case when there is no other team. Its hard to say though as I cannot imaging a boy trying to play on the girls team when the boys is an option. high school is hard enough as it is.
Im in Australia, but we had three girls join our under 16 rugby league team years ago because there was no girls teams. Noone had a problem with it as far as i remember.
Nope you’re right. We had a girl on our high school hockey team too. High school sports have been put on some kind of pedestal in parts of our country. Like it’s the Olympics or something. It’s literally just supposed to be another avenue of teaching and socialization. Building confidence and the ability to work in teams effectively
Honestly we should go to the other extreme. Stop even keeping score in high school sports.
Edit - At risk of dating myself I do want to point out, this was 20 years ago. Just to show how made up this issue is now.
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Conservatives think that every girl athlete is inferior to every boy athlete.
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They think that trans girls aren’t girls; they’re just boys who have been convinced by some evil liberal plot to pretend to be girls.
So they think a trans girl gives some sort of advantage that the other girl athletes can’t possibly overcome.
Of course, more than five years ago or so they didn’t give a flying fuck about girl’s or women’s sports (and they still don’t insofar as they can use them for vice-signalling political wedges.)
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we had a girl on our hockey team
Why would you think girls being on boys’ team is the problem here? This is about the weaker gender being protected from the stronger one.
Having a girl on our team wasn’t a problem, she was a great player and was as good or better than many of the guys on our team including me. So how was she the weaker sex?
So how was she the weaker sex?
Because women as a group are the weaker sex in many physical ways. This seriously cannot be this difficult a concept.
I don’t think Title IX ever specifically mentions “women”, it’s just about sex-based discrimination of any sort.
Because Volleyball is famously a contact sport?
Also it’s High school. Nobody cares except a few parents who take it way too seriously.
So glad we fixed climate change, wealth inequality, bigotry, rising fascism, homelessness, etc so we can work on the real issues.
The high school should fine Florida for mentioning gender within 100 feet of a school
Glad to see the school has some common sense. The principal and athletic director pushed to keep her on the team. Great classmates as well, learning to make their voice heard.
Wait if you can’t discuss sexuality or gender issues in school how do they know. Codewords? Charades?
Conservatives make it their business to know by any means necessary what you have between your legs.
Don’t be silly, that law was never going to be used against conservatives.
From the party that brought you such hits like: “Don’t Tread on Me,” and “Small Govermment!” comes a new this new banger:
“Some of you assholes are begging to be tread on by the government” and " Small government to HELP you, not make your life miserable!" In all good book stores…errr. sorry no, we closed those…on fox News and your favorite right wing talking head near you!
The highly competitive and world famous Monarch girls volleyball team from Coconut Creek, Florida. Nothing should be allowed to besmirch their timeless reputation through the hallowed halls of heteronormative athletic excellence.
Who called it in? It was a horny dad who got the ick after ogling the trans kid at volleyball practice wasn’t it?
Oof, I’d your second paragraph wasn’t the most likely cause I’d be surprised, but it could also be a Karen who thought a penis being around their chaste daughters would literally summon Satan.
But, what if the player from the other team trips and falls over one of them. They might get pregnant! - concerned soccer-mom
Right? Look it can happen anywhere any time!
These are great
I’m glad the reporting on this is easy to understand and digest.
Usually any transgender reporting makes it very confusing who is doing what because the reporter is stepping on eggshells when referring to gender.
The association also barred the girl from participating in boys sports for 11 months.
Short, sweet, and to the point. Not that I support them doing this, but at least it’s clear to me what they’re doing.
Enlightened neckbeards with shitty takes about this in three, two…
Self fulfilling prophecy, it seems. 🤨
“Be the neckbeard you wish to see in this thread” I guess
Yep, this is where effort should be spent. 😒
Oh no! Not high school sports! Whatever will we do?!?
Why fine them instead of disqualifying?
Seems odd
The FL Republicans just want to make a political statement.
There’s no money in disqualifications.
They banned the kid from school sports as well.
Yeah, they were cheating. The kid was already banned
Just seems weird to give a fine to the school, which tax payers would pay for
More typical punishments have banned the whole team
Seems weird to even have the rule in high school sports.
Not really relevant
Its there so you break it under assumption of consequence
That just sounds like another way to say you have to follow the law even when it’s immoral and harmful.
How?
Did you think pushing for change was easy?
No but this kind of civil disobedience is the way to do it.
Kinda glad my kids are music kids.
