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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Signs Highly Controversial Transgender Sports Bill on the First Day of Pride Month
Transgender girls will no longer be able to participate in girls’ sports
Today, June 1st of 2021, is the first day of Pride Month, a month where LGBTQ people celebrate diversity and culture, as well as the gains made over the years encompassing a span of LGBTQ rights. Also today, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a controversial law that’s been debated hotly among political pundits and basically everyone paying attention for months now: the one that disallows transgender girls from participating in girls’ sports statewide. It’s called the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act, and Governor DeSantis views it as a way to keep the playing field even and sports competitions.
Transgender girls are girls who were born and listed as biologically male on their birth certificate and transitioned into girlhood later in life.
It will affect children in school, not adults in private businesses where adults compete.
The law isn’t really anything new, however, as other Republican-led states have been passing these kinds of laws since 2020, with Idaho taking the lead and signing one such bill into law as early as August of 2020.
