I love my state

[DKG]

A woman in Florida may soon be fired from her job with the Broward County school district after she apparently allowed her son to play on the girls' volleyball team at his high school.

Last November, Jessica Norton was one of several members of the faculty and staff at Monarch High School near Fort Lauderdale to be reassigned to jobs at "non-school sites" after then-Superintendent Peter Licata discovered that a boy may have been playing on the school's girls' volleyball team.

That boy turned out to be Norton's son, though she routinely refers to him as her "daughter." She also indicated that his name and gender have both been legally changed, and Florida law does permit minors to legally change their gender on birth certificates and driver's licenses so long as they have parental consent.

However, another Floridian law, the Fairness in Women's Sports Act, signed into law in 2021, forbids biological males like Norton's son from joining sports teams reserved for women and girls. Not only did Norton apparently violate this statute by knowingly permitting her son, now 16, to play on the girls' team, but she also allegedly kept his gender listed as "female" on school records and checked "female" on a form asking about his sex at birth.

[DKG]

Ron DeSantis signs anti-woke law to stop banks from freezing Floridians' bank accounts based on their politics.

"We reject a global elite trying to force their ideology on us by capturing major institutions," DeSantis, who has led an aggressive campaign against so-called "woke" ideology in the Sunshine State, said when signing HB 989 into law.

"We are not going to allow big banks to discriminate based on someone's political or religious beliefs."

But while DeSantis claims he's fighting discrimination, the U.S. Treasury has labeled the Florida law — and other similar laws under consideration in mostly conservative states like Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana and South Dakota — as a potential threat to national security.

DeSantis' goal with HB 989 was to "strengthen Florida's protections for consumers ... from being forced to adopt ideologies or reflect a preferred political behavior."

Per an Associated Press report, DeSantis said the law will protect the access that conservative groups and the firearms industry have to the financial sector — and stop them from having their accounts frozen or closed.

The law makes it illegal for banks to "deny or cancel, suspend, or terminate its services to a person, or to otherwise discriminate against a person in making available such services" on the basis of several factors, including (but not limited to):

The person's political opinions, speech, or affiliations

Any factor if it is not a quantitative, impartial, and risk-based standard, including any such factor related to the person's business sector.

The person's engagement in the lawful manufacture, distribution, sale, purchase, or use of firearms or ammunition

The person's engagement in the exploration, production, utilization, transportation, sale, or manufacture of fossil fuel-based energy, timber, mining, or agriculture

It also allows Floridians to appeal "unwarranted account cancellations and restrictions" through a coordinated complaint and investigatory process within the state's Office of Financial Regulation.

The Treasury has openly criticized the new Florida law and any other state laws that bar financial institutions from carrying out necessary risk assessments.

In a July letter to lawmakers, obtained by the Wall Street Journal, Treasury Undersecretary Brian Nelson reiterated the importance of banks being able to probe customers in order to prevent money laundering and counter terrorist financing.

A person's politics is not risk assessment. It's part of the nefarious cancel culture.

[Lokmar]

Ron DeSantis signs anti-woke law to stop banks from freezing Floridians' bank accounts based on their politics.

"We reject a global elite trying to force their ideology on us by capturing major institutions," DeSantis, who has led an aggressive campaign against so-called "woke" ideology in the Sunshine State, said when signing HB 989 into law.

"We are not going to allow big banks to discriminate based on someone's political or religious beliefs."

But while DeSantis claims he's fighting discrimination, the U.S. Treasury has labeled the Florida law — and other similar laws under consideration in mostly conservative states like Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana and South Dakota — as a potential threat to national security.

DeSantis' goal with HB 989 was to "strengthen Florida's protections for consumers ... from being forced to adopt ideologies or reflect a preferred political behavior."

Per an Associated Press report, DeSantis said the law will protect the access that conservative groups and the firearms industry have to the financial sector — and stop them from having their accounts frozen or closed.

The law makes it illegal for banks to "deny or cancel, suspend, or terminate its services to a person, or to otherwise discriminate against a person in making available such services" on the basis of several factors, including (but not limited to):

The person's political opinions, speech, or affiliations

Any factor if it is not a quantitative, impartial, and risk-based standard, including any such factor related to the person's business sector.

The person's engagement in the lawful manufacture, distribution, sale, purchase, or use of firearms or ammunition

The person's engagement in the exploration, production, utilization, transportation, sale, or manufacture of fossil fuel-based energy, timber, mining, or agriculture

It also allows Floridians to appeal "unwarranted account cancellations and restrictions" through a coordinated complaint and investigatory process within the state's Office of Financial Regulation.

The Treasury has openly criticized the new Florida law and any other state laws that bar financial institutions from carrying out necessary risk assessments.

In a July letter to lawmakers, obtained by the Wall Street Journal, Treasury Undersecretary Brian Nelson reiterated the importance of banks being able to probe customers in order to prevent money laundering and counter terrorist financing.

A person's politics is not risk assessment. It's part of the nefarious cancel culture.

Fuk the treasury. IT IS A THREAT to America!

[Brent]

Fuk the treasury. IT IS A THREAT to America!

If they think banks have a right to force their woke politics on all Americans, it is un-American.

[JOE]

Fuk the treasury. IT IS A THREAT to America!

Trans people should get their own legal gender.

Florida is right to bar biological males from biological females sports, prisons & washrooms. They're stealing their identity.

I actually agree with you folks on the Right in that regard...Lokmeer.

[Thiel]

Trans people should get their own legal gender.

Florida is right to bar biological males from biological females sports, prisons & washrooms. They're stealing their identity.

I actually agree with you folks on the Right in that regard...Lokmeer.

See Sweetie, libertarians and conservatives are the mainstream.

[DKG]

Fuk the treasury. IT IS A THREAT to America!

When they try to stand in the way of what Florida is doing, they are.