transgender students

The state news release said “current evidence does not support the use of puberty blockers, hormone treatments or surgical procedures for children and adolescents.”

The stay was issued in the challenge filed on behalf of a Broward County transgender girl who is in middle school.

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.

Gov. Ron DeSantis now has 15 days to veto the bill, sign it into law or allow it to become law without his signature.

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.

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.

It was temporarily postponed during its last committee stop, and its sponsor says there may not be enough time to revisit it this session.

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,”

The Senate Rules Committee will also consider a less stringent version today.

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.

Bills in the Florida House and Senate would prevent transgender students from playing on the school sports team that matches their gender identity.

The bill would require K-12 and college sports teams to divide athletes by their "biological sex."