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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Mar 30, 2021, 12:06 PM Mar 2021

GOP Gov. Kristi Noem reverses following pressure from the right, signs anti-trans executive order

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican, signed two executive orders on Monday restricting trans girls from being able to participate in women's and girl's school sports teams after failing to convince the GOP-led state legislature to amend a similarly aimed bill.

The orders follow a days-long back-and-forth between state lawmakers weighing the legal implications of House Bill 1217––passed earlier this month––which restricted transgender athletes from participating in sports that correspond to their gender identity. Noem, who originally backed the bill, ultimately vetoed it over fears it might be met with enough legal pushback to kill it.

Noem attempted to revise elements of the bill's original language, recommending changing to its "style and form" to exempt collegiate sports from the bill's provisions. However, lawmakers rebutted that Noem's revisions were too substantial and would render the bill ineffectual. "For me to support this style and form veto would be an egregious violation of my oath to the constitution," Republican Rep. Jon Hansen said, "and so I will not do it, and I would suggest that you also vote no on these style and form changes, thank you."

On Monday, House lawmakers came to an acrimonious legislative standstill, prompting Noem to officially rubber-stamp her own versions of the bill without House support. "Only girls should play girls' sports," Noem tweeted Monday evening. "Given the legislature's failure to accept my proposed revisions to HB 1217, I am immediately signing two executive orders to address this issue: one to protect fairness in K-12 athletics, and another to do so in college athletics."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-gov-kristi-noem-reverses-following-pressure-from-the-right-signs-anti-trans-executive-order/ar-BB1f7Xdi?li=BBnb7Kz

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Through all of this SoCalNative Mar 2021 #1

SoCalNative

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1. Through all of this
Tue Mar 30, 2021, 12:26 PM
Mar 2021

I haven't seen any mention of whether or not they seek to ban transgender females from participating on the boys' sports teams....

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