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The state news release said “current evidence does not support the use of puberty blockers, hormone treatments or surgical procedures for children and adolescents.”
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The stay was issued in the challenge filed on behalf of a Broward County transgender girl who is in middle school.
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The lawsuit claims the new law will force her to abandon “the sports that mean so much to her” because she will not be able to participate on high-school girls’ athletic teams.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis now has 15 days to veto the bill, sign it into law or allow it to become law without his signature.
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If the birth certificate of a student athlete said they were male, and then they later changed that certificate to female, the bills says they couldn't use the amended document to play on female teams.
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One involves the ability of transgender women and girls to compete on female school sports teams. Opponents say the other could force school officials to reveal private conversations with students.
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It was temporarily postponed during its last committee stop, and its sponsor says there may not be enough time to revisit it this session.
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Said Rep. Anna Eskamani, D-Orlando: “I don’t care how many times you tell yourself this is about women’s sports and not LGBTQ rights or discrimination, because that is wrong,”
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The Senate Rules Committee will also consider a less stringent version today.
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The proposal would make participation in athletics contingent on determining a student’s “biological sex,” a disputed term that refers to the sex assigned at birth.
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Bills in the Florida House and Senate would prevent transgender students from playing on the school sports team that matches their gender identity.
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The bill would require K-12 and college sports teams to divide athletes by their "biological sex."