It can be hard to identify the facts in reporting of this kind, because of the usual careful obfuscation. Starting with the headline:

Broward high school principal reassigned amid investigation involving transgender athlete

What kind of transgender athlete?

The kind it always is, of course. The male kind. I wonder if the news media Five Families had a meeting at some point and agreed that male transgender athletes must always be identified as simply “transgender” with no mention of the m word. Why would they do that? Because women and girls have very obvious material reasons not to want males bouncing into their sports. Men and boys don’t have those very obvious material reasons. Therefore it must always be concealed that it’s male transgender people who are the problem in a given story.

The principal of a high school in Broward has been reassigned amid an investigation into a transgender student athlete playing on a girl’s sports team, sources told NBC6.

The principal at Monarch High School in Coconut Creek, along with several staff members, have been reassigned to non-school sites pending an investigation into allegations of improper student participation in sports, officials with Broward County Public Schools said in a statement Monday.

The statement didn’t give further details on the investigation. Students at the high school told NBC6 that the investigation involved the girl’s volleyball team.

“Although we cannot comment further, we will continue to follow state law and will take appropriate action based on the outcome of the investigation,” the statement read. “We are committed to providing all our students with a safe and inclusive learning environment.”

Ironic, isn’t it, that with all this careful tiptoeing around we can’t be sure what the statement means. Safe and inclusive for girls? Safe and inclusive for boys who call themselves girls? Both? We can’t tell. If only we were all allowed to tell the truth on this subject.

Sources with Broward County Public Schools told NBC6 the reason for the reassignment has to do with a transgender student athlete playing on a girl’s sports team.

Again – what kind? Transgender what? Given that it’s the girls’ team we’re left to decide for ourselves that the student is male, but that would be a mistake, because it could be a girl who’s on steroids. This is crap reporting, and it’s everywhere.

A Florida statute says athletic teams or sports designated for females, women, or girls are not open to male students, and says a “statement of a student’s biological sex on the student’s official birth certificate is considered to have correctly stated the student’s biological sex at birth if the statement was filed at or near the time of the student’s birth.”

“He should not be able to play on the team,” a student told NBC6. “If he is a biological boy, I don’t think he should be able to play on a girl’s team.”

There it is at last. Finally we get clarification.

Some students were mobilizing for a protest and a possible walk-out in protest of the reassignment and in support of the transgender community.

“If we were to just sit here and just get them to go to the boy’s team, then it would look like we are not supportive of people’s perspective on things, like, being a girl or a boy or whatever, and this school is really big on LGBTQ+ clubs and stuff like that, so, it kind of would look more hypocritical on our part,” another student said.

Yes it’s all about “people’s perspective on things” and not at all about inconvenient facts. Or whatever.