New regulations enacted by the Florida Board of Education (BOE) on Wednesday make it a disciplinary infraction for public college personnel to disobey state law requiring that toilets and changing areas be restricted to genuine members of their designated sex.
According to Fox News, the new regulations, HB 1521, which Republican Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law in May, will result in employee termination after two infractions. The law is applicable to both student housing and public universities.
“Bathroom spaces are very intimate and private,” BOE member Grazie Christie said. “There is historically- and cross-culturally accurate reasons why males and females use different spaces in those intimate moments, not just for girls and women, but also for boys and men. This is not something that as a culture we should ditch because of very, very new ideologies that are challenging the science of male and female, which doesn’t change because biology doesn’t change.”
“These threats of bathroom investigations, forced firing of personnel, and restrictions on dormitories in the Florida College System will only worsen the current culture of fear and intimidation against the transgender community,” complained former Democrat state Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith, now a senior policy adviser for LGBT advocacy group Equality Florida.
Critics contend that making girls share private spaces with people of the opposite sex violates their right to privacy, puts them through unnecessary emotional stress, and gives potential male predators a plausible excuse to enter female restrooms or locker rooms by merely claiming transgender status, as was seen in Loudoun County, Virginia.
The issue was brought to light in Virginia in 2021 when a grand jury indicted ex-superintendent of Loudoun County Public Schools Scott Ziegler for allegedly covering up the rape of a female student by a “transgender” classmate because it would have had negative repercussions for the LGBT movement. Ziegler was fired for the alleged cover-up.
Florida has taken the lead in combating transgender ideology under DeSantis, whose proactive conservative record fueled his 20-point reelection as governor last fall and his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination next year, through which he vows to take such efforts nationwide. Florida recently fined five state Medicaid providers for illegally using taxpayer money on underage gender “transition” procedures.
SOURCE: FOX NEWS
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