On the first day of Pride no less
Ron DeSantis Photo: SOPA Images/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Tuesday marks the first day of Pride month, and personally, I would be willing to bet that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis knows this. Nonetheless, he chose Tuesday to sign a bill banning trans athletes from playing on girls’ and women’s sports teams, from middle school all the way through college.
DeSantis also opted to approve the bill at the private Trinity Christian Academy in Jacksonville, where — as Democratic Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith pointed out on Twitter — school policy allegedly mandates that students can be expelled for “homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, [and] trans-sexuality.” The Florida High School Athletic Association, Smith noted, “has allowed trans kids to participate in FL since 2013 with ZERO problems.
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