Florida high school reassigns principal, assistant principal and sports coaches after they let trans athlete compete on girls' volleyball team: Student's friends blast officials claiming she hadn't 'come out' yet

A Florida high schoolhouse main and 3 different officials person been reassigned aft letting a trans woman play connected a girls' volleyball squad - contempt it being against authorities law.

Principal James Cecil, adjunct main Kenneth May, diversion head Dione Hester and volleyball coach Jessica Norton were each shuffled distant from school roles.

Bosses astatine Monarch High School successful Pompano Beach raised 'allegations of improper student information successful sports.'

It comes aft Ron DeSantis signed a bill barring transgender females from playing connected nationalist schoolhouse teams intended for student athletes calved arsenic girls successful 2021.

'Although we cannot remark further, we will proceed to travel authorities rule and will return due action based connected nan result of nan investigation,' Broward County School District spokesperson John Sullivan said.

'We are committed to providing each our students pinch a safe and inclusive learning environment.'

A family friend of nan trans jock told CBS Miami the student hadn't yet 'come out' arsenic transgender yet, pinch officials saying they've mishandled nan students privacy.

'It's horrendous first connected conscionable a quality level that nan schoolhouse would retired personification connected an rumor for illustration this that's evidently incredibly sensitive.

'It's conscionable dumbfounding, and nan Broward County Schools should beryllium ashamed of themselves,' said Scott Galvin, Executive Director of Safe Schools South Florida.

The student, according to sources, transitioned respective years ago. The schoolhouse territory superintendent and nan location superintendent of schools chose to reassign nan Monarch High officials.

As of 2023, 20 states person passed authorities protecting nan authorities of female athletes from facing what supporters opportunity is an unfair competitory advantage from biologically antheral athletes.

But nan Biden management is attempting to amend Title IX, nan rule that protects women's sports, to let athletes to compete connected either men's aliases women's teams accordant pinch their gender identity. 

Supporters of nan sports bills opportunity they are needed to sphere fairness, asserting that biologically calved women and girls would beryllium astatine a disadvantage against transgender athletes who were calved arsenic antheral but person since transitioned to female. 

DeSantis signed nan measure flanked by respective teenage women athletes. He said nan rule was needed to guarantee fairness for women participating successful sports crossed nan state.

'We are going to spell based disconnected biology, not based disconnected ideology erstwhile we are doing sports,' he said.

The Human Rights Campaign, an defense group, said it would situation nan Florida rule successful tribunal arsenic having been based connected a 'false, discriminatory premise' that threatened nan wellbeing of transgender children.

'Transgender kids are kids; transgender girls are girls. Like each children, they merit nan opportunity to play sports pinch their friends and beryllium a portion of a team,' Human Rights Campaign President Alphonso David said successful a statement. 

The Florida authorities passed complete nan objection of Democrats and civilian authorities advocates who telephone nan banning of transgender girls and women from sports unnecessary and discriminatory and impeach Republicans of portraying them arsenic a provocation to energize nan correct helping of their party. 

The rule says a transgender student jock can´t participate without first showing a commencement certificate saying she was a woman erstwhile she was born. 

It's not clear whether each females must show their commencement certificates, aliases only those whose gender is questioned.

The connection allows different student to writer if a schoolhouse allows a transgender woman aliases female to play connected a squad intended for biologic females.

The last wording of nan 'Fairness successful Women´s Sports Act' stripped distant immoderate of its astir contentious elements, including a request that transgender athletes successful precocious schools and colleges acquisition testosterone aliases familial testing and taxable to having their genitalia examined.

But nan authorities signed by nan politician advances an underlying rule asserted by supporters: Biological differences betwixt males and females make it unfair for athletes identified arsenic boys astatine commencement to compete connected teams for girls and women. 

The rule would not barroom athletes calved arsenic female from playing connected boys' aliases men's teams.

Human Rights Campaign President Alphonso David said nan caller rule would not only harm transgender girls. 

'All Floridians will person to look nan consequences of this anti-transgender authorities -- including economical harm, costly taxpayer-funded ineligible battles, and a tarnished reputation.'

Democrats and LGBTQ advocates said nan rule is plainly discriminatory and will beryllium challenged successful tribunal arsenic unconstitutional.

'This is yet different hate-driven onslaught from nan politician and Republican legislators, and it's insulting that they've staged this morning's photo-op connected nan first time of Pride Month,' said authorities Senator Shevrin Jones aft nan bill's signing. 'At nan extremity of nan day, transgender kids are conscionable kids.'

The prohibition was tucked into nan past infinitesimal of nan legislative convention into a measurement allowing nationalist universities and colleges to sponsor charter schools - a constituent nan politician did not mention during nan measure signing. It was nan transgender athletes proviso that was beforehand and halfway successful Tuesday's rhetoric.

'This measure is very simply astir making judge that women tin safely compete, person opportunities and physically beryllium capable to excel successful a athletics that they trained for, prepared for and activity for,' said authorities Senator Kelli Stargel, a Republican who championed nan bill.

'This is thing astir anybody being discriminated against,' she said. 'It's solely truthful that women person an opportunity to compete successful women's sports.'