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Measure Banning Transgender Girls From High School and College Teams Heads for DeSantis Signature

April 29, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

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Under the measure on its way to Gov. Ron DeSantis, female students’ eligibility for sports teams would be based on their “biological sex” on birth certificates issued “at or near the time of the student’s birth.”

School Board’s Latest Fray Over LGBTQ ‘Hysteria’ Is Tense But Civil as Law Has the Last Word, Not Parents

April 20, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Teacher Abbey Cook walking past one of the many people who registered to speak at this afternoon's Flagler County School Board workshop, where the most contentious segments focused on the district's policies and procedures regarding LGBTQ students. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler school district officials explained that a student’s privacy–and sexual identity–may override a parent’s right to know about it as transgender matters again divided an audience of 70 and the school board in impassioned but mostly courteous debates at a meeting Tuesday afternoon.

Ban on Transgender Girls in Sports, Requiring Genital Proof in Disputes, Heads for Florida House Vote

April 7, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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The proposal would make participation in athletics contingent on determining a student’s “biological sex,” including the requirement, in disputes, of proof of a student’s birth genitalia as certified by “a health examination and consent form.”

I Want Civil Rights. They Want to Talk About Sports.

March 31, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

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The Equality Act would extend basic civil rights protections to Queer people in housing, employment, education, and other arenas. Support tops 70 percent. Many people assume a federal law like this already exists. But in dozens of states, it’s perfectly legal to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.

Palm Coast Student Elliott Bertrand Accuses Senate Panel of ‘Prejudice’ Before 6-4 Vote on Transgender Sports Ban

March 31, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

Elliott Bertrand of Palm Coast, a student at Flagler Palm Coast High School, addressing the Senate Health Policy Committee this morning in Tallahassee. (© FlaglerLive via Florida Channel)

The Florida Senate Health Policy Committee today approved a bill that would scrap existing policy and ban transgender women from participating in competitive high school and college sports absent testosterone testing that might clear them to play. Elliott Bertrand, a student at Flagler Palm Coast High School, was among the many opponents of the bill who addressed the panel in Tallahassee.

Calling Mullins ‘Pied Piper of Hate, Deception and Fraud,’ School Board’s Conklin Rips His Latest Attack on LGBTQ and GOP

March 29, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 47 Comments

Joe Mullins speaking to a group he calls the 'adorable deplorables,' in a still from the video he'd posted, then taken down, at his Facebook page.

Joe Mullins combined attacks on transgender people and local Republicans in an extended screed filled with falsehoods and mischaracterizations as he spoke to a local far-right Republican group, prompting the School Board’s Colleen Conklin to issue a severe condemnation and called him a “narcissistic beast.”

The Fabricated Fear of Transgender Athletes in High School Sports

March 18, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 27 Comments

Randall Bertrand, the author, at a demonstration for transgender rights before a school board meeting last year. (© FlaglerLive)

Randall Bertrand, who led last year’s campaign to add “gender identity” to the Flagler school board’s protections against discrimination, lays out a case against the Legislature’s baseless fear-mongering over transgender participation in high school sports.

Overriding Florida High School Athletic Association, House Backs Banning Transgender Female Athletes

March 17, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 10 Comments

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Critics of measures targeting transgender student athletes argue the proposals are rooted in fear, misunderstanding and politics as a Florida House panel on Wednesday approved a controversial proposal that would ban transgender girls and women from competing in women’s high-school and college sports.

Renewing Assault on Transgender Rights, Florida Rep. Sabatini Will Seek to Criminalize Certain Procedures

February 14, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

Florida Rep. Anthony Sabatini announced he will again try to criminalize gender-altering surgery and medical treatments performed on minors who want it, even when their parents approve.

St. Johns Schools Discriminated Against Transgender Student, Appeals Court Rules in Case with Local Implications

August 10, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

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On the heels of months of debate over Flagler schools’ stance on transgender students, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday that the St. Johns County school district discriminated against a transgender high school student by denying him the right to use the boys’ bathroom.

Flagler School Board Adopts Anti-Discrimination Policy Without Specified Protections for Transgender Students

April 23, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Last February's demonstration outside the Government Services Building, before a school board meeting, which drew proponents and oppnents of the words "gender identity," proposed for a policy the board adopted on Tuesday--without the two words. (© FlaglerLive)

In contrast with months of raucous public debate on the issue, the Flagler school board in a virtual meeting on Tuesday adopted a policy without two words–gender identity–that had triggered intense controversy.

Transgender Inmate Spurs Appeal as Florida Prisons Seek to Deny Her Gender Identity

January 3, 2019 | FlaglerLive | 18 Comments

Reiyn Keohane in her Florida prisons mug shot, left, and in her Lee County mug shot from 2013, when she was arrested for attempted second degree murder. The Florida prison system still lists her as male.

Inmate Reiyn Keohane contends that her rights have been violated at least in part because she has not been allowed to wear women’s undergarments and groom as a woman.

Calling Florida Prison Officials Ignorant and Bigoted, Judge Orders Accommodations For Transgender Inmate

August 23, 2018 | FlaglerLive | 13 Comments

A briefing at a Florida prison, where guards will have to learn to accommodate transgender inmates. (Facebook)

A federal judge ordered Florida prisons to continue providing hormone treatments to Reiyn Keohane, who identifies as female since age 8. She started serving a 15-year sentence for attempted murder in 2014.

Teacher May Be Disciplined But Not Fired Over Disparaging Transgender Student

January 9, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

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An administrative law judge reversed the decision of the Lee County School Board, which had moved to terminate Angel Villanueva, a Junior ROTC instructor at East Lee County High School.

New Report Doubles Estimate of Transgender People in U.S.; Florida’s Proportion Ranks 6th

June 30, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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The estimate places Florida’s proportion of transgender people at almost 0.7 percent, for a total of 100,000 people, with the national proportion at 0.6 percent, for a total of 1.4 million.

Separate But Equal: Palm Coast Sidesteps Transgender Bathroom Bind With Private Facilities

May 16, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

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Palm Coast hopes to avoid the transgender-bathroom controversy by including private bathrooms in its $525,000 project for new facilities in Town Center and Indian Trails Sports Complex.

Superintendent Apologizes Over Gender-Neutral 8th Grader Sanctioned for Wearing a Dress

October 17, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 31 Comments

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Leon County School Superintendent Jackie Pons apologized to the family of an 8th grader who identifies as neither boy nor girl, but who was accused of violating the dress code for wearing a dress on Tuesday. The violation was, in fact, committed by the school principal.

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