If you were wondering how serious Florida was about protecting girls’ and women’s sports, this might be your answer. Monarch High School has been put on Administrative probation and fined 16,500.00 for allowing a boy to play on a girl’s volleyball team.
And so we are clear (as Vodak comrade) when we say girl or boy (woman or man) we mean born that way. (The queer spectrum is the social construct.)
Florida’s bylaw 8.62 states that “biological males may not participate on a female team in any sport,” the letter reminds Monarch High School. Policy 16.11.6 states that the “use of an ineligible student when self-reported, may subject the school to a monetary penalty of a minimum of $100 per contest and/or other sanctions.”
F.S. 1006.205(3)(c) states that “athletic teams or sports designated for females, women, or girls may not be open to students of the male sex.”
That male student played in over 30 games, according to the letter, and the athletic association has not “received any corrective actions from Monarch High School.”
My one gripe is that the boy played 30 games across two seasons. That strikes me as a lot of “F-ing Around” before Monarch High School was “found out.” If the goal of the rules in statute is to protect opportunities for girls and ensure some level of safety, then this needs serious work.
This, however, makes me smile.
The letter additionally states that Monarch High School owes a monetary penalty of $16,500 ($500 per contest, in accordance with Policy 16.11.6), and Monarch High School representatives will be required to attend one of the association’s Compliance Seminars in both 2024 and 2025. The high school will also be required to host association staff for an “eligibility and Compliance Workshop” no later than June 30, 2024.
The Left loves to force people into re-education seminars, so – nice touch, but I bet there’s a significant compliance problem up and down the state, and they don’t know it. Progressives have a love-hate relationship with the concept of order. The advent of Marxist rule is all about order, but to get there, you have to break everything without regard to the cost to the people you lie about protecting. Take girls and women, for example. Breaking them is the cost of doing Democrat Socialist business.
Florida could audit a dozen schools in notably progressive political ghettoes, and I bet they’d find most or all ignoring the no boys-in-girls sports rules. Widen the net, and the fines might fund something useful like lawyers for detransitioners, or something. And it would fill up those compliance workshops.
Maybe DeSantis should offer a finders fee to anyone who reports a violation.
It’s a thought.