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On the first day of Pride Flordia Governor signs bill banning trans women and girls from participating in women's school sports

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Florida governor signs bill targeting transgender athletes on 1st day of Pride Month

The so-called Fairness in Women's Sports Act will go in effect July 1.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Tuesday that would bar transgender female athletes from playing on girls' and women's sports teams at public schools -- a move that LGBTQ advocates decried as particularly "unconscionable" on the first day of LGBTQ Pride Month.

The so-called Fairness in Women's Sports Act, which was included in a broad education bill, stipulates that girls' or women's teams "may not be open to students of the male sex." It does allow female athletes to play on boys' or men's teams. The bill also includes a provision allowing an allegedly impacted student to sue a school that violates the act.

The law, scheduled to go into effect on July 1, applies to public secondary and high schools, public colleges and universities.

So far this year, over 30 states have introduced or passed restrictions on transgender athletes, according to the Human Rights Campaign. Florida is the seventh state -- following Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Montana, Tennessee and West Virginia -- to enact such legislation, according to the LGBTQ advocacy group. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has also issued similar executive orders.

The NCAA's Division III LGBTQ OneTeam Program and members of the NCAA's Division III LGBTQ Working Group have previously condemned these proposed laws in an open letter published in April.

upporters argue such bills are meant to protect female athletes from an unfair physiological advantage.

"As a father of two daughters, I want my girls, and every girl in Florida, to compete on an even playing field for the opportunities available to young women in sports," DeSantis said in a statement Tuesday. "Women have fought for decades to have equal opportunities in athletics, and we have to prevent those opportunities from being eroded as is happening in other states. It's common sense."

LGBTQ advocates warn that such bills send a damaging message to vulnerable transgender youth and may open states up to economic consequences.

"Gov. DeSantis and Florida lawmakers are legislating based on a false, discriminatory premise that puts the safety and well-being of transgender children on the line," Human Rights Coalition President Alphonso David said in a statement. "All Floridians will have to face the consequences of this anti-transgender legislation -- including economic harm, expensive taxpayer-funded legal battles, and a tarnished reputation."

The Human Rights Coalition has already announced its intent to sue Florida over the bill.

Nadine Smith, executive director of Equality Florida, said in a statement that the bill will "make Florida more dangerous for our community, for no reason but political gain in an election-driven culture war."

LGBTQ advocates also decried the timing of the bill's signing. Sam Brinton, vice president of advocacy and government affairs for The Trevor Project, an LGBTQ suicide prevention organization, said signing the bill on the first day of LGBTQ Pride Month was "unconscionable."

"This group of young people desperately needs more support, not to be further marginalized and attacked by those in positions of power," Brinton said in a statement.

Democratic state Rep. Carlos Smith, Florida's first LGBTQ Latinx legislator, said the bill "contributes to the dangerous stigma that drives the epidemic of violence against and bullying of transgender youth."

"If GOP lawmakers would have spent half as much time helping Floridians struggling with economic issues as they spent pushing trans kids out of school sports, our state would be much better off," he said in a statement.

The provisions of the Fairness in Women's Sports Act stem from legislation that had stalled in the state legislature but which Republican leaders tacked on to an education bill that passed in the last days of the session in late April. The law enacted Tuesday does not include some of the more contentious elements of that original bill, including a provision that would have allowed schools to verify a student's birth gender via a genital inspection. Instead, under the passed law, students may need to provide a birth certificate that was filed around the time of their birth.

The sponsors of the original bill praised the signing of the Fairness in Women's Sports Act Tuesday.

"The Fairness in Women's Sports Act protects opportunities for female athletes to demonstrate their strength, skills, and athletic abilities and to realize the long-term benefits that result from safely participating and competing in sports programs," Republican state Sen. Kelli Stargel said in a statement.

"The safety and integrity of women's sports should not be up for debate and this legislation will ensure that both will remain intact," Republican state Rep. Kaylee Tuck said in a statement.

Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran pushed back against criticism that the bill is discriminatory.

"This issue is an issue of fundamental fairness. Recognizing gender differences is a far cry from discrimination," he said. "This is especially true in education where major college athletics -- and the scholarships that go with it -- still delineate by gender."

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The reasons don't make any sense dead4 I don't think transgirls are taking anything away from other girls, I don't even see one transgirl in any elite sport. And if they are, then just make separate scholarships for different type of girls. Why go to the extent of banning, seems more like transphobia from a cis str8 privileged politician.

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i live in FL and obv. many ppl are against this ridiculous overreach of government. i love how only in the last 4 years, trans people are this "boogeymen".. oh maybe thats bc conservatives have ran out of minorities to label as evil 

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1 hour ago, TRENCH said:

i live in FL and obv. many ppl are against this ridiculous overreach of government. i love how only in the last 4 years, trans people are this "boogeymen".. oh maybe thats bc conservatives have ran out of minorities to label as evil 

This. In England the same thing is happening along with other minorities . In my country (Italy), they tried to censor a famous rapper on National TV because he exposed some homophobic politicians. Yeah, Conservatives across the West are desperate and many of them turned extreme for relevance. 

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40 minutes ago, Billie Frank said:

Is it?

I mean not on the same level but you get the point rip4 . What about the LGB Alliance and some of the press being openly Transphobic? Or someone like J.K Rowling being openly transphobic as well? I remember my best friend over there told me about it. Even this article was saying that. Of course not as extreme as the US but something similar.

https://www.them.us/story/transphobia-surge-endangering-trans-people-uk

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2 hours ago, Princess Aurora said:

I mean not on the same level but you get the point rip4 . What about the LGB Alliance and some of the press being openly Transphobic? Or someone like J.K Rowling being openly transphobic as well? I remember my best friend over there told me about it. Even this article was saying that. Of course not as extreme as the US but something similar.

https://www.them.us/story/transphobia-surge-endangering-trans-people-uk

Just to be clear i'm not at all denying it's a problem but part of the issue with those figures is that the increase can simply just be down to more people feeling comfortable reporting it.

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37 minutes ago, Billie Frank said:

Just to be clear i'm not at all denying it's a problem but part of the issue with those figures is that the increase can simply just be down to more people feeling comfortable reporting it.

I know you weren't denying it and your statement about reporting is pretty obvious. If it's reported, it means that it's happening. This doesn't only apply to the UK exclusively though , for example I think even inside the Union, Scotland is more advanced under certain LGBT-related topics/laws than England. Furthermore, across the European continent, there's a rise of intolerance towards minorities that is similar to the US. I mentioned England and Italy as the first examples on my mind but there are many others. Poland and Hungary last year were pretty extremist against the LGBTQ+ community.  Last time I talked to my best friend from Lincoln he told me that he noticed a lot of anti-transphobic rhetoric over there in the last few years, especially among certain Feminist and LGBT circles but even more recently. 

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11 minutes ago, Princess Aurora said:

I know you weren't denying it and your statement about reporting is pretty obvious. If it's reported, it means that it's happening. This doesn't only apply to the UK exclusively though , for example I think even inside the Union, Scotland is more advanced under certain LGBT-related topics/laws than England. Furthermore, across the European continent, there's a rise of intolerance towards minorities that is similar to the US. I mentioned England and Italy as the first examples on my mind but there are many other. Poland and Hungary last year were pretty extremist against the LGBTQ+ community.  Last time I talked to my best friend from Lincoln he told me that he noticed a lot of anti-transphobic rhetoric over there in the last few years, especially among certain Feminist and LGB circles but even more recently. 

Yeah i knew you wouldn't but just wanted to state that for the avoidance of any doubt. 

Part of the issue with the UK is that it has a corrupt right wing media bias (US is the opposite with a left wing bias), so that can distort things, the prime recent example would be with Meghan/Harry where the media would give you the impression everyone hates them, but the reality is if you went out in to the street and asked people at random most of the responses you'd get would either be favourable towards them or that of indifference.  

I've heard some of the stuff going on in Eastern Europe recently and it's very worrying. That said as you rightly say if it's being reported it means it's happening and something needs to be done. My point was more that even if reporting's have increased it doesn't nesserally mean cases have increased. 

Scotland is generally more liberal/socialist leaning especially when compared to England which has no doubt shifted a little to the right, the fact we voted over 75% for left leaning parties in the last election says it all really. Scotland has became the first country in the world to include LGBTQ+ History and education in it's school curriculum (LGBT inclusive Sex Education is already compulsory since 2018). Discrimination protections are also more advanced in Scotland with there being laws against hate speech based on gender identity etc - no such laws exist in England, Wales or Northern Ireland.

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6 hours ago, TRENCH said:

i live in FL and obv. many ppl are against this ridiculous overreach of government. i love how only in the last 4 years, trans people are this "boogeymen".. oh maybe thats bc conservatives have ran out of minorities to label as evil 

missj1 So inclusive

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3 hours ago, Princess Aurora said:

I mean not on the same level but you get the point rip4 . What about the LGB Alliance and some of the press being openly Transphobic? Or someone like J.K Rowling being openly transphobic as well? I remember my best friend over there told me about it. Even this article was saying that. Of course not as extreme as the US but something similar.

https://www.them.us/story/transphobia-surge-endangering-trans-people-uk

Please don't generalise about my country (or any) based on a few news snippets and the opinions of the minority missj1

That said, I think it's about time we learned to separate sex/gender and sexuality missj1

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3 minutes ago, Darth Sidious said:

Well, when I think of trash and banjos, I immediately think of the Florida panhandle.

I associate banjos more with Louisiana but I guess Floprida also has swamps

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1 hour ago, Billie Frank said:

Yeah i knew you wouldn't but just wanted to state that for the avoidance of any doubt. 

Part of the issue with the UK is that it has a corrupt right wing media bias (US is the opposite with a left wing bias), so that can distort things, the prime recent example would be with Meghan/Harry where the media would give you the impression everyone hates them, but the reality is if you went out in to the street and asked people at random most of the responses you'd get would either be favourable towards them or that of indifference.  

I've heard some of the stuff going on in Eastern Europe recently and it's very worrying. That said as you rightly say if it's being reported it means it's happening and something needs to be done. My point was more that even if reporting's have increased it doesn't nesserally mean cases have increased. 

Scotland is generally more liberal/socialist leaning especially when compared to England which has no doubt shifted a little to the right, the fact we voted over 75% for left leaning parties in the last election says it all really. Scotland has became the first country in the world to include LGBTQ+ History and education in it's school curriculum (LGBT inclusive Sex Education is already compulsory since 2018). Discrimination protections are also more advanced in Scotland with there being laws against hate speech based on gender identity etc - no such laws exist in England, Wales or Northern Ireland.

Oh Now I see. That makes sense then. Even though I got my best friend over there when we talk about different things , it can be confusing sometimes when reading the newspapers over there . I was in Northern England a few years ago and I noticed that it doesn't look very different from where I live, it's just slightly more progressive than my area, it's Europe in the end. For example, Italy's pretty conservative, I'd compare it to the UK in the Late 2000s right now, but the media is mixed so you can have different opinions. On the other hand, TV Censorship is a big problem over here instead especially when it comes to LGBTQ+ themes (it's improving luckily) or some World news. For example, we had the first Transgender MP in 2006 which was pretty impressive for my country. So Transphobia isn't big unlike Homophobia, Italy's weird, I know. I also noticed that the Conservatives you told me about are also very similar to our Italian politicians in many aspects. Someone like Borish Johnson reminds me of an Italian politician,  in other aspects they're similar to the Far-Right here (I'm talking about the excessive Nationalism which is cringy).  I noticed that Scotland is more progressive. One of my English Professors was from Scotland and he's very open-minded. However, I think having bias in the media can be damaging to the Democratic system. 

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1 hour ago, LÉON said:

Please don't generalise about my country (or any) based on a few news snippets and the opinions of the minority missj1

That said, I think it's about time we learned to separate sex/gender and sexuality missj1

Oh no. I wasn't generalizing. I was trying to make a point about how they're trying to push Transphobia outside the US. As I told Billie before, it can be confusing to understand the Public opinion over there 

 

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1 minute ago, Princess Aurora said:

Oh Now I see. That makes sense then. Even though I got my best friend over there when we talk about different things , it can be confusing sometimes when reading the newspapers over there . I was in Northern England a few years ago and I noticed that it doesn't look very different from where I live, it's just slightly more progressive than my area, it's Europe in the end. For example, Italy's pretty conservative, I'd compare it to the UK in the Late 2000s right now, but the media is mixed so you can have different opinions. On the other hand, TV Censorship is a big problem over here instead especially when it comes to LGBTQ+ themes (it's improving luckily) or some World news. For example, we had the first Transgender MP in 2006 which was pretty impressive for my country. So Transphobia isn't big unlike Homophobia, Italy's weird, I know. I also noticed that the Conservatives you told me about are also very similar to our Italian politicians in many aspects. Someone like Borish Johnson reminds me of an Italian politician,  in other aspects they're similar to the Far-Right here (I'm talking about the excessive Nationalism which is cringy).  I noticed that Scotland is more progressive. One of my English Professors was from Scotland and he's very open-minded. However, I think having bias in the media can be damaging to the Democratic system. 

I should clarify media as in normal TV programs are not right wing, it's more the press and news that are, thankfully censorship isn't really an issue and there are plenty of outlets in the centre/left, it's just the main national newspapers tend to be on the right (Daily Telegraph for example). With Scotland it's kind of an odd situation, back in the 70s/80s Scotland was probably the least progressive part of the UK, but it's changed quickly. I think i mentioned before but at one point a few years back almost all of the party leaders in Scotland identified as LGBT, even the conservative leader from 2011 to 2019 was a Lesbian. 

I'm not really sure Nationalism in itself can be regarded as right wing, i mean the nationalist movement in Scotland is probably stronger than the Brexit movement ever was UK wide prior to 2016, but the type of Nationalism is different. Brexit was more about national conservatism, whereas Scottish Independence is more about liberation, that is to say with Brexit it was more about reducing immigration and a heavily deluded "UK is superior" attitude, whereas with Scotland it's about having more choice over the future and not being dragged around by England. Boris is a complex person, politically he's in the centre and socially liberal, however he's always been Eurosceptic. To be honest i don't think Brexit was much of a left-right thing either as much of the support for it came from Labour supporters in poorer areas. 

Scotland and England socially are almost like completely different countries at times, i think much of it comes down to the fact Scotland has a far less dense population. People often forget the population of London alone is higher than all of Scotland. 

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