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.

    • @TheActualDevil@lemmy.world
      3•11 months ago

      So we’re protecting the system against the outliers? So we’re blocking naturally muscular or otherwise more athletic cis girls from playing? Really tall basketball players? Runners who are just naturally faster? How do you judge they fall too far outside the median range?

      Or have you given this no thought and you just think boy things are for boys and girl things for girls and you stopped learning at age 3?

      • proleEnglish
        3•11 months ago

        Not to mention that these are already outliers within outliers. Trans people make up like 0.01% of the population, and how many of those are not only still in middle/high school, but also play competitive sports? We’re probably talking a couple dozen people total.

          • @Sorgan71@lemmy.world
            -1•11 months ago

            I’m saying that its not always the case that the doctor will tune it so that it could be considered fair. The doctor coule use less HRT in order to give the athlete an unfair advantage.