felixmizioznikov/iStock(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) 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 th
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Florida has become the latest US state to ban transgender girls and women from participating in female sports at public schools and colleges.
The state s Republican governor Ron DeSantis signed the measure into law on Tuesday.
The law says women and girls must play on the teams of the biological sex on their birth certificate.
LGBT activists have denounced the move as discriminatory , with one group vowing to launch a legal challenge. We re gonna go based on biology, not based on ideology when we re doing sports.
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