A Florida school employee who let her transgender daughter play on her high school's girls volleyball team is being suspended for 10 days after the district's board found on Tuesday that she violated state law but said firing her would be too severe.
The Broward County school board voted 5-4 to suspend Jessica Norton without pay at Monarch High School, where her 16-year-old daughter played on the varsity volleyball team the last two seasons.
But she must be given a job with equal pay and responsibility.
The board found that Ms. Norton's actions violated the state's Fairness in Women's Sports Act, which bars transgender females from playing girls high school sports.
Republican Governor Ron DeSantis and the Legislature adopted it in 2021, over the Broward board's opposition.
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