The Florida legislature passed SB1028 a bill to protect women’s competitive sports from the infiltration of male transgender athletes. The law states that women and girls must play on the sport teams of the “biological sex” on their birth certificate. Therefore, a transgender girl whose birth certificate denotes her “biological sex” as male, cannot play on a girls’ sports team.
Governor’s Office – “The bill specifies that an athletic team or sport that is designated for females, women, or girls may not be open to students of the male sex, based on the student’s biological sex listed on the student’s official birth certificate at the time of birth. The bill applies the requirements to interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic teams or sports that are sponsored by a public secondary school, high school, public college, or university institution. The bill provides civil remedies for those who suffer harm by violations of the section of law.” (link)
Despite threats from the NCAA to ban Florida from hosting NCAA championship events, today Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed the bill into law saying: “Some of these organizations say they’re not going to hold events if you do this, just let me say very clearly, in Florida, we’re going to do what’s right, we will stand up to corporations, they are not going to dictate the policies in this state. We will stand up to groups like the NCAA, who think that they should be able to dictate the policies in different states.”
- Maintains opportunities for female athletes to demonstrate their strength, skills, and athletic abilities and to provide them with opportunities to obtain recognition and accolades, college scholarships, and numerous other long-term benefits that result from participating and competing in athletic endeavors.
- Strengthens educational opportunities for military families by allowing state universities to expand high-quality developmental laboratory schools to serve communities around military installations.
- Paves innovative pathways for students to access industry certification and workforce education by allowing Florida College System and State University System institutions to sponsor charter schools to meet regional workforce demands.
- Empowers students to pursue high-wage STEM professions by expanding access to the Florida Private Student Assistance Program grant award to include full-time certificate-seeking students at an aviation maintenance school.
- Requires each public school to provide parents with information on the role swimming lessons and water safety education plays in saving lives, including free and reduced cost options for swimming lessons and safety courses. (LINK)
Good job, Governor DeSantis!
And the FL. Legislature!
You don’t get to sign this stuff if the Leg. doesn’t pass it first!
Thank God Florida is blessed with so many common sense legislators. And with each and every common sense initiative, we are attracting more and more new residents each week who wish to live free, raise their families in peace, send them to great schools, ( no more common core in Florida. It’s back to the basics in education here), and find work, and work with pride. There are so many new trade schools, and career shifts available in this state.
My husband and I came down here on our Honeymoon 50 years ago in November, NEVER TO RETURN TO NEW YORK.
BEST MOVE EVER, and never any regrets.
Almost sounds like he is setting himself up for a VP or even POTUS run.
He’s be a waste of talent as VP.
Needs to be Prez someday. Just not til he’s completed his run as Gov. of FL.
Ditto, we need Governors like DeSantis running the states to insure election integrity, among other things. Barring previous, nothing else matters.
I agree. In fact, he needs to be reelected as governor for another four years, not because he is not ready to be president (he is more than ready), but because the state will need eight years of uninterrupted Conservative governance to make his accomplishments permanent.
Ron DeSantis is like a unicorn. He’s a GOP’er who actually gives a shit about his voters. Those are extremely hard to find these days.
We have some good Republicans in Florida.
We are in desperate need of 2 MAGA US Senators!
My GOP representative in Colorado not only gives a shit about her voters, but cares about your 1st and 2nd Amendment rights while she is at it. Only the RINOs need to be primaried out. We will get that done over the next 8-12 months. I am keeping my powder dry for the real enemies of our Country, the Democraps and the Chicoms.
There are a LOT of RINO’s though. Many more than you seem to realize.
There’s a reason we call them DECEPTICONS.
They can have a perfect voting record, and blend in seamlessly with America-first politicians, until their vote is actually needed. e.g., Mike Pence
Anyone who studied Mike Pence’s tenure as Indiana governor should have known that he would flunk the test when bold leadership was needed. I never trusted Pence from day one.
Yes, removing all rinos is a decades-long project.
There are thousands of them holding office across the US. They are monied, firmly entrenched, and will not simply be ‘voted out’ easily.
Fortunately, several are taking themselves out by retiring, or letting their TDS get the better of them like Cheney.
Pokey, I totally agree with you. Doug Lamborn is another Colorado GOP Congressman who consistently stands up for the values I hold dear; like the 1st and 2nd amendments, the sanctity of marriage, the imperative of two biological sexes (female and male), and of course support for President Trump.
But the RINO Cory Gardner thought he could appease the leftist by straddling the fence and refusing to stand with Trump and conservatism, and as a result we’re now stuck with that Pennsylvanian born corruption machine commonly referred to as J. W. Chickenpooper!
Not quite so fast!! I like DeSantis but he’s weak on immigration and that’s not a MAGA candidate.
I noticed when he ran for governor that he was weak in his immigration positions and figured it was because he wanted the vote of the illegals in his state.
However, this article from Judicial Watch Corruption Chronicles tells me it’s more than that.
Look at who he appointed to replace the corrupt sheriff, Scott Israel and how he’s maneuvering to get illegals ID for public services (our tax dollars) and job priorities over Americans. BE sure to read to the end so you can see how they’re doing it so government doesn’t take the heat.
This just stinks to high heavens.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/corruption-chronicles/fla-county-gives-illegal-immigrants-special-ids-to-get-vaccines-public-services/
Note it says Florida COUNTY.
NOT the State.
All that does it give the people who live in that County a Big. Heads. Up. that they need to elect different people at their county level.
And that’s a GOOD thing.
Since there are a LOT of Hispanics in FL, immigration is a tough issue. Say the wrong thing and you risk alienating a lot of decent folks who would vote FOR you.
Even the people I know here who just came from Puerto Rico are big Trump fans. So not sure about the “Hispanic” thing.
We have a LOT of sane people from all over the world living in FL.
Just need to get rid of what’s left of the freako Dems.
Hoping enough of the continuing Trump Boat Parades will finally scare some of ’em off.
Our side needs to be careful when flinging the word “Hispanic” around as if all Americans of Latin American descent were a racial, ethnic, cultural, economic and social monolith. They are not. For instance, you are not going to find many supporters of illegal immigration in these Florida communities for the simple reason that the vast majority immigrated legally precisely to get away from the dysfunctional political culture in Latin America.
DeSantis made E-Verify mandatory in Florida. He also outlawed sanctuary cities. Governors can’t enforce immigration laws nor deport people.
Broward County is deep blue. Florida is in compliance with Real ID. You cannot get a driver’s license without proving who you are and that you are an American citizen. I had to take my birth certificate and Social Security card to renew my license last time and it affirms that I am a US citizen. A “community ID” isn’t going to get you very far. It won’t get you on a plane.
I also had to take my passport.
The NCAA is a fatally flawed, corrupt, mess of an organization. Will be glad when they finish killing themselves off.
Well done, Gov. DeSantis.
Plus they are a RACIST organization.
Yeppers.
Too bad Gov. Noem didn’t have what it took to stand up to the NCAA like Gov. DeSantis did. What a champion he is.
They, like most college sports, have deep pocketed corporate sponsors.
Bravo to Gov. DeSantis and common sense! Never, ever did I imagine a day you’d see people saying there are more than two genders. God help us!
It’s a direct attack on God’s truth: “So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” Gen. 1:27 (and lots of other places, too)
If only America’s Generals and Admiral’s had anything even approaching the moral courage that DeSantis has (or Trump has). Unfortunately, even all combined, the don’t.
Ron DeSantis continues to inspire hope and resolve
Gov. DeSantis was a JAG officer. I’m assuming he’s seen the corruption in the military first hand.
Will the Pentagon allow military personnel, or the families, to attend such non-Woke classes? It would go against everything they are now indoctrination their captive personnel. with.
We don’t want transgender males competing against female athletes because the are neither female or athlete.
Good for him. The transgender insanity needs to be stopped in its tracks. This specific example hurts female athletes who should not be expected to compete against biological males. Too bad Kristi Noem in SD didn’t have the same guts to stop it in her state.
DeSantis for President 2024.
Kristi Noem lost too much credibility to recover for a presidential run.
I don’t give a crap about other people’s sexual preferences, but transgenders should know what they are getting themselves into before they have surgeries they can’t undo. Leave me and my kids out of your strange sexual proclivities, if you will. All school teachers should know better than to make this crap part of grammar school education, for crying out loud!
Teach the kids the subjects we all know will help the kids thrive in the real world. Math as far as they can go with it, cognitive reading, writing to make sense and spell words correctly so they can be understood, geography so they will want to experience the world first hand, and science so they can’t be brainwashed with senseless factoids.
PS – DeSantis has some good common sense. I wish he was Colorado’s Governor.
Its up to the parents to get together and make the demand of the teachers and principals. School union is going to otherwise do it their way. Look at the parents that took over the school board and hired all new teachers and principals in Az. Parents need to really start paying attention and doing something about it now. Been complaining and ignoring it for far too long. Stand up parents. It is your kids they are installing this mental illness on. Either homeschool them or get in the boards faces day in and day out. Not just one or two parents but band yourselves together and don’t let them escape. It is sad to hear so many parents complain about it but then do nothing to get it corrected. Pay attention to who you are electing in the school systems.
The problem is that the school board can deal with parents who complain in isolation, instead of, as you rightly said, banding together. Organized parent resistance is the only solution to the school board’s monopoly on power.
Exactly!! Spot on..leave our kids alone and teach what’s needed. I agee!!
This doesn’t stop anything in its tracks. Anyone who’s honest knows the supreme court will take it on as an emergency and overturn it (including Trump’s greatest pick ever who identifies as “textualist” and “Catholic”). Talk about fiddling while Rome burns.
2021 – It Took Legal Action to remove Mr. Potato Head from Women’s Sports.
Hey Noem. Pay attention!!
About time. This should be a no-brainer. Men should NOT compete against women. The real women need to unite and refuse to compete against men if the governors of their state lack the courage to ban men competing against women. IMO, anyone who truly believes Bruce is a women has a few screws loose.
DeSantis is my Governor…..He’s what appears to be the rare Politician Lawyer who’s honorable with integrity and be believes in the Constitution and Bill of Rights…..
“…we will stand up to corporations, they are not going to dictate the policies in this state. We will stand up to groups like the NCAA, who think that they should be able to dictate the policies in different states.”
THERE!
DeSantis and the Florida legislature have identified the current battle lines in this war.
Now it’s our turn to contact our governors and legislators and ask them–demand to know from them–“Who sets policy in this state?”
If you don’t know who to call or write or email, stop and do it now before you read any further. Just send them DeSantis’ quote and ask the question. Red state or blue state, these people have egos. Stroke them or poke them. But don’t let them off the hook.
It is almost getting old, my saying how great Gov. DeSantis is, how lucky Floridians are, and how every other Governor should follow his excellent example (which is just common sense), but this is just another reason why it’s still a worthy sentiment that bears repeating.
Clone this guy.
YEAH !!!!!!!
~sanity.
I was shocked for a moment. It’s come to the point where I have to do a double take whenever a political body passes something sane.
In the 1980’s, I competed in NCAA sports. Never thought of them as a political organization. This group, like the NAACP, will become irrelevant. Death by their own hands. I applaud Gov. DeSantis and the great State of Florida for standing for common sense. It take great courage to do that these days.
Add this to the hoohaw over the NCAA: They have seriously proposed that college athletes should form unions, and demand pay for play, as well as merchandising royalties. Can you see it coming: University of Florida loses star quarterback pick to Reebok-sponsored team at Florida State….
Superman wears Ron DeSantis underwear, under his underwear.
(Saw it and stole it, today)
Meanwhile … Republican candidate for governor, Bruce Jenner says that transgender athletes who have undergone chemical castration can compete. Bruce says that we must have RULES … like the Olympics for allowing neutered boys compete against girls.
Yeah … Gavin Newsom will easily hold off the recall attempt. Nice recall … too bad the Republicans don’t have a single viable candidate. Nice job CA Republican Party Officials. You’ve had MONTHS to get a decent candidate into the race. I guess Kevin McCarthy was too busy shacking up with that portly gay man
I saw that. First he said no boys in girls sport- it’s about fairness. Then he recently made the exception you mentioned- basically saying he’s all for school age kids to neuter themselves. ??♀️
um, mr./ms. jenner, there are rules about this very subject in a bunch of different venues.?
geldings are not allowed entry into filly and mare only races,
but they may compete against other males.
neutered male dogs are not allowed to compete in conformation shows at all, unless a special class is set aside for them.
gomer bulls are a lot of trouble and not much benefit.
like the old margarine commercial says, you can’t fool mother nature….?
Nope. Mother Nature sets the rules … we don’t. Esp. the mentally ill don’t.
Oh man, I didn’t know he’d flipped on that.
He’s done.
He flipped on FOX and Friends. Very publicly.
Wonder if Richard Grenell will run?
I hope. But it’s getting late
I really thought he would
Women everywhere should be saying, You may be able to steal our votes, albeit only temporarily, but you are not going to steal our sports or into our locker rooms and bath rooms.
Sick, evil basturds.
It’s really nice to see when a Governor and the State legislatures work to be benefit of their fellow citizens.
Very happy for the little girls in Florida who can now grow up and have fair competition.
Wait for the feds to threaten federal funds for FL until DeSantis reverses course. The gender blender crowd will screech that the Governor is in violation of the core concepts about to be codified via HR5.
I may be wrong, but didn’t the Governor and legislators turn down the next stimulus checks, and told Floridiand who are able to work to start looking for jobs?
Wherever you drive, there are huge skilled and unskilled “help wanted” signs. In almost every field.
You have to prove to the state you are actively job hunting before getting assistance.
Whose the best….don’t ever want him to step down as the Guv!
It’s too bad we need a law for this. I pray other states will join in. I think they should also refuse to play a team that allows this.
I agree 100%. Simply refuse to play or compete against a team with trans members. Your team takes a principled stand, and the players on the other team also suffer due to the one person. Put the blame/responsibility of nobody gets to play where it lies…on the person who is causing the issue.
It won’t take long before players and parents get pissed about not playing. Scouts coming to the game? Oh well, maybe next game
Not only doing what’s right but telling the cultural Marxists to get lost. That second part is just as important as the first. It tells the independents there really is an opposing side.
It’s a sad state of affairs when a law like this is needed.
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It galls me to no end that any man has to make a law that states ‘male is not female’ . . .
God’s Creation says that.
Biological science says that.
Discerning eyes see that.
When does he sign an anti-radical feminist ‘Fairness to Men Act’? At a minimum such an act should bring to an end the era of government forcing males, upon pain of incarceration and issuance of a criminal record negatively affecting their ability to earn for the rest of their lives, to pay females who left.
Another day, another great piece of Legislation signed by Gov. DeSantis.
Big thankyou to the Gov. and the Florida Legislature!
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Sigh. Read the bill. SB1028. Roughly 95% is twiddling with charter school regulations and administrivia.
And some money thrown to… stuff. Military families were needing additional educational opportunities? I don’t think so. And this is Florida; we don’t need information about swimming and water safety. Who is getting money here.
One tiny section addresses the women and sports thing, and does so very badly. Among other things, it fails to define the terms male, female, men, women, boys, girls in any way that will stand up against the feds in court. All the defects I pointed out in the bill Noem vetoed (for whatever other reasons.)
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I’m sorry. What is wrong with the numerous Republican lawyers in the legislature that they cannot write something without loopholes.
Go to page 62 of pdf
It just doesn’t do it.
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1028
Education; Authorizing members of certain committees of a district school board to attend meetings in person or through the use of telecommunications networks; authorizing state universities and Florida College System institutions to solicit applications and sponsor charter schools under certain circumstances; authorizing a charter school to offer a career and professional academy; creating the “Fairness in Women’s Sports Act”; expanding eligibility to receive capital outlay funds to schools of hope operated by a hope operator; authorizing the principal, teachers, and parent or guardian to collaborate to develop a customized 1-year education plan for the student in lieu of retaining the student, etc. …
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The worst part: contrary to multiple court decisions in Florida, the thing ON ITS FACE makes a different rule for males and females. Almost like this was deliberate. If you wanted to write a law that a court could overturn in about 30 seconds, this is it.
I love DeSantis. And, handed this law (overlooking a lot of junk in it) of course he signed it.
But. We have to wise up. An insert into a bill about other things that either was drafted by a non-lawyer or was deliberately designed to fail.
“We don’t need information about swimming and water safety”????
Are you kidding me????
Thousands of new residents pouring into this state monthly NEED info on everything, including hurricane preparedness.
This is a good, solid bill, one that will be followed by many others.
DeSantis continues to solidify his position as the logical take-no-schiff successor to Donald Trump. The NCAA threatens to withhold events in Florida if he signs such a law? He ignores them. Up yours, NCAA. I will no longer watch any of your twaddle, but I strongly support a position that XX sports are for XX people (not XY masquerading as XX).
How does a raw-boned six foot ex-guy have the balls to compete against natural women ? Gotta be a joke there somewhere . .
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P—- issues.
Every morning I bless myself and say “ Ron DeSantis make my day”
Governor Ron is sure ticking all the right boxes and along the way shaming many others.
He sure looks like he’s on the road to somewhere.
how to win over sports players that vote dem?
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introduce college player pay for earned game revenue.
My brand new, shiny Governor!
Thanks Governor DeSantis. You already have my vote, or votes next election…however you think we should play it.
No matter what you ‘Think’ you are and no matter how many pills you pop nor how much ‘gender reassignment’ surgery you undergo you will sill die with the same DNA you are born with. Oh and Medical Science cannot create biologically functioning testicles and has never made a biologically functioning transplant of female wombs woman to woman never mind woman to man.
It should also include psychological examination of the wannabe and their parents. They should be put on federal terrorist list, do not fly list, and not be given a conceal carry permit.
What a darling little girl and certainly reason to fight for American freedoms.
Since you mentioned the little girl. Anybody besides me thought what would pedo joe do if he had been sitting next to that little girl. It was just the other day that pedo joe was ooggoling that little girl in barrettes. I think much stranger things are going on behind the scenes than we all may know.
Darling? Don’t you know this is the era radical feminism. She can grow hair on her hairy pits in a few years and join the Marines to shoot it out on the front lines with Jihadists just as good as man. In fact better because men aren’t as good as fighting battles in war time as women. I know this because I saw Superwoman in the theater and the Democrats say so constantly.
But for some reason, they still want to get paid for years after they leave men to have sex with other people and/or herd small animals. How does that work? Every woman is better and stronger than any man but men must be forced by government to pay women after they leave them. I think women should be paying men when they leave men given the logic of the radical leftist Democrat/trad-con RINO position.
I think I’m in LOVE!!!!!
Meanwhile in San Diego…
DeSantis is a real rocks star. Thank you for all you do.
It’s so unfortunate that these castration industries have made a fortune pushing such horrors on young people. They must have lobbyists raking it in. They are clearly focused on normalizing this process/procedure and it’s just too sad for words. Governor Desantis is doing such a great job.
No confusion what gender HE is! Love that fearless dude.
I listed to Doug Gotlieb on fox sports today. He said that all the effort that a trans has had to go through to change their sex and to come out to the world and their family. They deserve the opportunity to compete in whatever new sex they have declared. sickening. I change the channel and will never listen to Gottlieb again. Too damn Woke.
That’s horrible
Excellent.
I’d really hate to give him up as governor of Florida, because he leads so much by example, showing the power of the state and these policies. And I’m in Ohio, where I have Mike DeRino and an Ohio legislature that apparently is pussy footing around. State Sen Romanchuk’s person who took the call indicated some background talk of this issue among others. And I never did hear back from the office of state rep Sharon Ray.
He does this without the handtalker prop! I love RDS.