United Press International released an article: “Florida Board of Education votes to fire school employees for using wrong bathroom.”

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The Florida State Board of Education approved firing employees for using the wrong bathroom. 

The Florida State Board of Education unanimously approved firing school employees for using the wrong bathroom. Transgender people using state college facilities are barred from using bathrooms consistent with their gender identities.

• The new rule says using a school facility consistent with gender identity rather than gender assigned at birth just once can get employees fired.

• The board made it mandatory to fire employees if they do it twice. 

• The rules apply to private and state schools.

The board's action means transgender students in dorms will be barred from using bathrooms in line with their gender identities.

During the board meeting most who spoke out opposed the new harsher rules. That included a mother and her transgender teen.

Carlos Guillermo Smith, a Florida state senate candidate and Equality Florida policy adviser, attended the meeting.

"It is death by a million cuts, where you just created such a toxic and hostile environment for trans people in our state that they no longer are going to want to call Florida home," Smith said.

Maxx Fenning, executive director of Prism FL, an LGBTQ+ rights advocacy group, opposes the bathroom law and new penalties.

"Trans people just want to pee in a stall safely and mind their own business. And now college students can't even do that in their own housing," Fenning said. "Let trans students pee in peace, for the love of God."

The board's action was triggered by a law the Florida legislature passed in May as part of a package of legislation targeting LGBTQ rights.

That law banned transgender people from using bathrooms aligned with their gender identities rather than their gender assigned at birth.

• The Florida State Board of Education also required the state's 67 school districts to report which books are being targeted by people who want to ban them, books that have been banned, and why.

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