Florida students walk out in support of staff who flouted DeSantis trans ban

[Jilly_in_VA]

Hundreds of students at a south Florida high school walked out of lessons on Tuesday in support of a principal and senior staff who were reassigned for reportedly violating Ron DeSantis’s law on transgender athletes.

James Cecil, the principal of Monarch high school in Coconut Creek, his assistant Kenneth May, the school’s athletics director, a volleyball coach and an information management technician were removed from campus on Monday by the Broward school district, citing “allegations of improper student participation in sports”.

The students staged a short protest on school grounds at lunchtime, many wearing pink clothes and carrying placards with messages including “Free Cecil” and “Let her play”, referencing a transgender athlete whose appearances for Monarch’s girls’ volleyball team led to the district’s action.

The family of the girl, identified only by her initials, DN, lost a legal challenge earlier this month to the anti-trans Fairness in Women’s Sports Act. The bill, signed by the hard-right Republican governor DeSantis in 2021, bans female student athletes competing on girls and women’s teams if their birth-assigned gender was male.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/28/florida-students-protest-trans-athletes-monarch-high-school

I'd call DeSatan a perfect asshole except for 2 things: a) Nobody's perfect, and b) assholes serve a useful function!