Florida students walk out in support of staff who flouted DeSantis trans ban

Ron DeSantis at a campaign event in Keene, New Hampshire, earlier this month. Photograph: Kristopher Radder/AP

Hundreds of students at a south Florida high school walked out of lessons on Tuesday in support of a principal and senior staff who were reassigned for reportedly violating Ron DeSantis’s law on transgender athletes.

James Cecil, the principal of Monarch high school in Coconut Creek, his assistant Kenneth May, the school’s athletics director, a volleyball coach and an information management technician were removed from campus on Monday by the Broward school district, citing “allegations of improper student participation in sports”.