Florida High School Under Investigation for Alleged Violation of Transgender Sports Law

School officials reassigned amid probe into transgender student's participation in girls' volleyball team, sparking student protests.

Florida's Monarch High School is under investigation for allegedly allowing a transgender student to play on the girls' volleyball team, in violation of the state's Fairness in Women's Sports Act.
Principal James Cecil, assistant Principal Kenneth May, athletic director Dione Hester, and information management technician Jessica Norton have been reassigned to non-school sites during the investigation.
Students at the school staged a walkout in protest of the staff reassignments and in support of the transgender student athlete.
The Fairness in Women's Sports Act, signed into law in Florida in 2021, prohibits transgender girls from participating in female sports.
The name of the student at the center of the investigation has not been released.