TALLAHASSE, FL. – Late Wednesday afternoon the Florida House Republican leadership brokered a deal and filed an amendment to an unrelated charter schools bill, Senate Bill 1028, that would effectively ban trans kids from playing sports with their peers.
The backroom deal to resurrect the bigoted ban is part of a continued national effort to garner support from the far-right at the expense of the most vulnerable population of young people.
The amendment comes on the heels of a standalone bill stalling in its last Senate committee after enormous public outcry. After her original bill stalled, Rep.
Kaylee Tuck (R-Okeechobee) slid the proposed ban into a Senate bill dealing with charter schools that passed largely along party lines, Florida