Posted on 03/20/2021 2:56:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has sent back to the legislature a hotly contested bill on transgender athletes, asking lawmakers for changes and startling those who view the Republican as an ally in their fight to keep biological males out of women’s sports.
The Republican Noem issued a “style-and-form” veto of House Bill 1217, suggesting four changes over concerns that “this bill’s vague and overly broad language could have significant unintended consequences.”
“I support this legislation and hope that House Bill 1217, with the changes I am proposing, becomes law,” she said in a Friday statement.
Her decision to seek revisions came as a surprise after her March 8 tweet saying that she was “excited to sign this bill very soon,” prompting American Principles Project president Terry Schilling to accuse her of “break[ing] her word on this critical legislation.”
“By standing with Joe Biden and the radical left against protecting women’s sports, Noem has irreparably damaged her standing with both her own constituents as well as Americans nationally who have been looking to her for bold leadership,” he said. “This betrayal will have political consequences.”
The proposed changes include striking a section requiring schools to collect verification forms each year from student-athletes on their age, biological sex and use of performance-enhancing drugs, saying it would create an “unworkable administrative burden,” and remove collegiate athletics from the legislation entirely.
“South Dakota has shown that our student athletes can compete with anyone in the country, but competing on the national stage means compliance with the national governing bodies that oversee collegiate athletics,” Ms. Noem said. “While I certainly do not always agree with the actions these sanctioning bodies take, I understand that collegiate athletics requires such a system – a fifty-state patchwork is not workable.”
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I have no problem with that.
Sounds like she is actually paying attention, rare in politicians.
Oh, look - an ACTUAL leader.
She’s an equivocal female. It’s what women do.
Look, most women are simply not made to run the show. That’s what men are made for. Women shine as homemakers and lovers of their husbands and children. Most women are like fish out of water in all this equality with men and trying to run things B.S. The Women’s Movement has not done women or society any favors.
Let the flaming begin.
Doesn’t stun me. She expects a quality bill, not some junk thrown together that will not survive a court challenge. The legislature can do better, and needs to do better.
Did you read the article?
Perhaps she actually read the bill, and then thought about the bill before she took action. What an f’ing novel idea.
Yep, she wants a good bill.
No, she wants to hid under her desk while our girls are attacked by homos and their corporate enablers. This country is going down the toilet and you can thank “leaders” like Kristi Noem for it.
I thought women were equal to men.
What did I say that wasn’t true?
I'll offer the "Defense of Marriage Act" from the 1990s as a classic case in point.
☄🔥☄🔥☄🔥☄....lolol
Yeah, before people jump all over her, consider that she may have gotten legal counsel from her AG recommending changes before the left can get a victory from their black-robed slaves.
Speaking in generalities is neither true nor false, just lazy.
More likely she took phone calls GOP consultants and corporate lobbyists. Her weak moves here have GOP surrender party written all over them.
I respect her attempt to ensure a well-written law designed to accomplish the desired result. I also fully expect it to not last 24 hours beyond her eventual signature; the Leftnuts already have an Obama-era Federal judge prepared to write an injunction overturning the law, which will then take five years to get to SCOTUS, who will refuse to rule on the issue.
My preference would be to let schools deal with this crap as they see fit and allow the whole idiocy of sports in public schools collapse under its own weight.
So you didn’t read the article. Goes along with being lazy.
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