Florida's State Board of Education approved a rule Wednesday that requires colleges to abide by state law on single-sex or unisex restrooms or changing facilities.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks after signing three education bills on the campus of New College of Florida in Sarasota, Fla. on Monday, May 15, 2023.
"Bathroom spaces are very intimate and private," she 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.
The penalties and requirements, on the flipside, have LGBTQ+ allies and community members upset. They argue the policies fail to protect trans people and invade their privacy. One parent blasted the rule as an"attack on the basic dignity of transgender students, faculty and staff."Former state Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith, a senior policy adviser for Equality Florida, said,"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," according to Politico.
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