You resort to name calling and not an analysis of the issues. Here are the issues:
From her letter:
For example, Section 2 of House Bill 1217 requires a student athlete to verify, each year, that the student “is not taking and has not taken, during the preceding twelve months, any performance enhancing drugs, including anabolic steroids.”
Presumably, this requirement was included to address a student taking these drugs as a part of a gender transition, but House Bill 1217 is not limited in this way. Rather, if a male student athlete failed to make the football team, and later learned that another student on the team was taking steroids without disclosing it, the student who didn’t make the team would be entitled to sue both the school and the steroid-using student for damages.
In addition, Section 2 creates an unworkable administrative burden on schools, who under its terms must collect verification forms from every student athlete, every year, as to age, biological sex, and use of performance-enhancing drugs; and furthermore must monitor these disclosures throughout the year so that if “reasonable cause” is found of a false or misleading form, the school can take action to avoid civil liability.
You can read her whole letter here.
I’d love to see just one Democrat refuse to sign a leftist bill b/c it might lead to lawsuits. I will die waiting.
I notice nobody has read the text of the letter or the bill itself. Schools would be getting sued from all over the place. A 5’4” 130 lb kid gets cut from the varsity team? Let’s sue the school, that’ll show them!
This is a lawyer’s dream.
Do not think many here are interested in anything but the spin they are hearing. I hope that more start to read her letter for themselves.
Instead of her letter, where she is trying to deflect, read the bill. I don’t see anything that egregious, it sounds pretty straight forward. To complain that obtaining a written verification from athletes would be too burdensome for schools seems like a weak cop-out.
https://mylrc.sdlegislature.gov/api/Documents/218120.pdf