signing S.B. 1028 into law, which requires girls whose gender is “disputed” to provide a birth certificate from “at or near birth” to participate in school sports. “In Florida, girls are going to play girls sports, and boys are going to play boys sports,” DeSantis, a Republican, said at the bill-signing ceremony. “We’re going to make sure that that’s the reality.”But for Daisy, a trans 13-year-old from Broward County, this new law means that after five years of playing sports on a girls’ sports team, she will no longer be able to do so.
Rather than accept this discriminatory law, Daisy is suing DeSantis for the right to play sports on girls’ teams at her public school.The Human Rights Campaign, which filed the lawsuit on Daisy’s behalf,.