 Florida became the latest and, by far, the largest U.S. state to ban transgender women and girls from participating in college and high school sports. Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, who is closely aligned with former President Donald Trump, signed the bill into law on the first day of Pride Month, which celebrates the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community. DeSantis signed the bill at an event at a Christian school in Jacksonville where he was flanked by several teenage women athletes. He said the law was needed to ensure fairness for women participating in sports across the state. I messaged anything other than saying we're going to protect fairness in women's sports. We believe that it's important to have integrity in the competition and we think it's important that they're able to compete on a level playing field and you know you've seen what's happened when you don't have that. I can tell you this in Florida, you know, girls are going to play girl sports and boys are going to play boy sports. That's what we're doing and we're going to make sure that that's the reality.