Florida school staffer suspended for allowing trans daughter on girls volleyball team
Jessica Norton, an employee at Florida's Monarch High School, was suspended by Broward County School Board for letting her transgender daughter play girls volleyball.
A staffer at a Florida high school was suspended Tuesday after a county school board said she allowed her transgender daughter to play on a girls sports team in violation of state law.
The School Board of Broward County voted 5-4 to suspend Jessica Norton from her job as a computer information specialist at Monarch High School in Coconut Creek — a city about 15 miles north of Fort Lauderdale — after she permitted her trans daughter to play on the school’s varsity volleyball team last year.
Norton, who has worked for Broward County Public Schools for seven years, was suspended from her job without pay for 10 days. Norton avoided termination, which was recommended by the district’s superintendent, Howard Hepburn.
Jessica Norton, with her husband, Gary, in Fort Lauderdale on June 18.Amy Beth Bennett / Tribune News Service via Getty Images file“I mean, obviously I don’t want to get fired from my job, I love my job, but I don’t think the decision for any suspension was correct,” Norton said after Tuesday’s board meeting, according to NBC South Florida.
Broward County Public Schools did not immediately return a request for comment.
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