South Dakota governor aims to block trans athletes from women's sports nationwide

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Reuters

MARCH 22, 20215:28 PMUPDATED 9 HOURS AGO

By Daniel Trotta

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(Reuters) - South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem on Monday urged fellow governors, high-profile athletes and everyday citizens nationwide to join an initiative seeking to bar transgender girls and women from participating in female sports.

Noem, a Republican, announced her “Defend Title IX Now” effort three days after coming under fire from both sides of the political aisle for rejecting a bill that would ban students designated as male at birth from women’s and girls’ sports.

The governor, who disappointed conservatives in her party by not signing the bill into law, said she agreed with its sentiment but feared it would not withstand legal challenge. She returned it to the legislature to narrow its scope to non-collegiate sports, among other refinements.

Transgender advocates criticized Noem for keeping alive legislation they deem unnecessary, unconstitutional and based on outdated stereotypes, as only a handful of transgender athletes have achieved high levels of success in sports.




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[Botany]

1. "initiative seeking to bar transgender girls and women from participating in female sports"

And this is a problem how?

I just woke up and saw this story. I guess being a dumb fuck is needed to be a conservative governor.

BTW good to see that S. Dakota has no other problems that need working on such as the Lakota people
@ Pine Ridge.

[lonely bird]

2. Doesn't she have viruses to spread?

Instead of wasting time on this?

[mountain grammy]

3. keeping hate alive

but her constituents, not so much.

[Claire Oh Nette]

4. But not trans men...

I guess if trans men are competing in men's sports, that's OK.



Ask her to point to specific instances where these trans women are over running girls sports. We'll wait.

First, it was all those transwomen using the ladies room, now it's all those trans women overrunning the athletic fields. A marginalized group that it's still marginally ok to marginalize.

Another GOP solution in search of a problem. Lord but they are fascinated with women having dangly bits.