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.
Florida is such a shithole state
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
Yup.
-Sent from the awesome blue state I fled to from Florida
(I’m trans. Florida has never been worth dying for.)
Most definitely. Ohioan checking in.
Oh no… there’s a lot more wrong with Ohio than just Conservatives.
It really is just more and more of an endless cesspool the longer you look at it.
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.
It’s pretty fucked up when we need to start having non-profits take in refugees from a different state.
Texas?
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.
I remember the conservative shit fest they had over USWNT asking for equal pay to the men’s team.
To be fair the USWNT was full of shit on the equal pay thing
I tried researching it after watching the ‘LFG’ documentary and most sites were MRA bluster. What did you find out?
You uhhhh, didn’t read past the first couple paragraphs did you? It was some rather selective accounting.
Cordeiro’s letter stipulated that the totals do not include money received by U.S. Soccer from FIFA for World Cup bonuses. With that money included, federation analysis said that the men earned $41 million for the same nine-year period, compared to $39.7 million for the women.
Considering that revenue and profits for the men’s world cup ABSOLUTELY DWARF the women’s world cup this makes perfect sense. And considering the huge gap in revenue and profit a $1.3 million differences is completely acceptable
And then literally everyone else involved said the numbers they presented were false and selective.
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.
Zoomers are vastly more progressive than any previous generation. It’s why republicans have such a laser focus on schools and children media. If they don’t actively do indoctrination the voter base is just going to naturally shift left.
But boy howdy when they go right they go WAY right
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
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.
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.
I’ve heard some roller derby teams doing this when their attendance numbers are low. They just ask the team and have a vote to see if people are comfortable or not. According to this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_IX
It prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or any other education program that receives funding from the federal government.
You would be allowed.
If people are interested, it’s easy to find a case by case solution, which fits best the given situation - but some people are just asholes or populist so others have to suffer.
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.
I’m hopeful these ideals are changing for the better with gen z
yeah I don’t think they were ideals really but if gen z has somehow eliminated peer pressure and bullying then I suppose.
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.
I wanted to play volleyball in high school, but they just looked at me like I was a nut.
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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So glad we fixed climate change, wealth inequality, bigotry, rising fascism, homelessness, etc so we can work on the real issues.
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.
According to armchair analysts, isn’t she supposed to be dominating all high school volleyball in it’s entirety like some ‘hopped up on E’ ubermensch? /s
If not, then why is there separate mens and womens teams at all?
Bimodal distribution, the fact these overlap seems to defeat people. But at the extremes of performance, the overlap is greatly reduced or entirely eliminated. Sexual dimorphism is very pronounced in humans, and we definitely need to separate the sexes in the vast majority of competitive sports. Anyone claiming otherwise is denying reality, which they’re free to do, but I am free to disagree with their conclusion. I expect to be called a fascist for my position, which is very silly.
What is the distribution of athletic performance in volleyball between 14 year olds and an 18 year olds? In high school volleyball, it’s perfectly possible for a team made of all 18 year olds who are 6 feet tall to play a team that is all 14 year olds that are 5 feet tall. The idea that without the participation of trans girls, high school volleyball is completely equitable is ridiculous. High school sports are for fun, learning teamwork and discipline, and fitness. Who wins a high school volleyball game is not important. Certainly it’s not more important than the health and safety of trans girls - and non-gender-conforming cis girls who have been and will continued to be tortured by laws like this.
Is it common for a varsity team to be playing a freshman team? That wasn’t the case with football.
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In competitive youth swimming, which I did as a child, the age groups are like 11-12, 13-14, 15-16. So, it was possible for someone who was 12 a week ago to swim against someone who turns 15 next week - a HUGE difference in terms of physical development. And if your birthday happens to fall in the weeks before the big championship meet every year, you are always at the bottom or middle of your age bracket for your entire childhood, never at the top. But the specifics don’t even matter. Age groups and grade classifications are to try to make things a little more fair so that little kids aren’t swimming against basically adults. But it’s not in any way perfectly fair. And also, it doesn’t matter! Let kids play sports and get the benefits of that activity. Your kid’s team winning - or losing - some sports game in 10th grade doesn’t matter. Keeping this girl from playing volleyball isn’t fixing any problem. In Utah they made a ban and there were literally 4 trans athletes in the entire state. It’s culture war bullshit. And people who start quoting bone density studies or whatever are either falling for it or willingly participating in it.
Competitive Hockey was the same way. But we were also allowed to “play up” if we were good enough to get on an older team. So it did have some balancing in that regard. For private competitive sports in the high school age brackets we should be using the same rules as the professional leagues. Because that’s where people go to get noticed by the scouts and train intensively to play at high levels.
But in high school teams? Those should be the same rules as the friendly leagues where nobody cares. It’s about having fun and not much else. Winning definitely isn’t the point at a school.
Yes. It absolutely happens. Especially if the school can’t field two teams.
In my experience youth sports at all levels are also there in order to put band-aids on the fragile egoes of adults.
Yes, I feel like I’m taking crazy pills reading these comments.
Could this be handled with greater jv and varsity leagues?
Like instead of men’s and women’s, it’s just jv and varsity. If you aren’t that great, you’re in jv. If your stronger/faster/whatever you can try out for varsity.
Changing the name or the perception of the “jv” team maybe?
Sure. In professional sports where they’re training intensively. In High School it’s a bit ridiculous. Getting a winning record isn’t the point of sports at that level. It’s just another mode of teaching.
I suppose, although you’d still expect the skill distribution to follow the same pattern in this smaller population, i.e., school or college. So on average you’d be forcing girls out of sports teams.
Assuming you didn’t just field extra teams?
Sure, but I’m asking about when there isn’t. some sports those things make a difference, but others they do not.
Something else came to mind while reading this article:
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/09/sports-gender-sex-segregation-coed/671460/“There are players on teams that we play that are faster than me, that are stronger than me, that can hit the ball harder than me. So I knew that [the league’s] arguments didn’t really have any basis in that regard.”
This is what I’ve experienced in roller derby. The only thing carrying me is that I was taught how to ice skate and play hockey since I was 4. Again, pointing to a socializing aspect rather than a “gendered” thing.
The funny part is volleyball is a perfect example of how to separate men’s and women’s sports. The women’s net is 8 inches lower than the men’s. The men are still faster/stronger and hit harder, and the women’s games are still fun to watch. Why not alter the playing field since the sexes aren’t physically equal? Make the NBA hoop lower, make the women’s soccer field smaller. There is a lot that can be done.
Not sure. Here’s a good journal article discussing it.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24757601Tradition. Because some people can’t handle that little Billy is never going to play at a higher level than the high school team?
All sorts of reasons. None of them are good though.
The high school should fine Florida for mentioning gender within 100 feet of a school
Or we should fine everyone for mentioning Florida.
Wait if you can’t discuss sexuality or gender issues in school how do they know. Codewords? Charades?
Don’t be silly, that law was never going to be used against conservatives.
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“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!
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.
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.
