Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

South Dakota Governor Bans Transgender Girls From Sports Teams By Executive Order
NPR ^ | 03/29/2021 | Lee Strubinger

Posted on 03/30/2021 9:30:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

After failed negotiations between South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem and the state's House lawmakers, the governor issued two executive orders Monday designed to limit participation on women's and girls' school sports teams to people assigned female at birth.

Earlier this month, state lawmakers passed a bill restricting transgender athletes from playing on sports teams that align with their gender identity. After signaling support — even excitement — for the bill, Noem declined to sign it over concerns the law would not survive legal challenges. Instead, she asked lawmakers to revise the legislation's language. Major conservative backlash ensued and on Monday, South Dakota lawmakers failed to come to an agreement.

"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."

Neither of the governor's orders mention transgender athletes specifically but Mark Miller, the governor's general counsel, says because legislators did not approve Noem's changes to the bill, she issued the orders as a temporary fix.

The Department of Education and the Board of Regents will need to ensure that K-12 school districts and colleges and universities restrict participation in girls' and women's sports to athletes who can prove their assigned sex at birth.

"I think the executive orders speak for themselves," Miller says. "What they do is set out that DOE and BOR should take steps to ensure that girls play girls' sports."

Miller says the orders are designed to clarify where South Dakota stands on the issue. Lawmakers in several other states have already passed bills this year attempting to change the rights of transgender individuals.

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: South Dakota
KEYWORDS: executiveorder; genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; kristinoem; southdakota; womenssports
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 121-129 next last
To: Dilbert San Diego

“Assigned female at birth?”

I would suggest that the doctor who completes the Birth Certificate checks Female or Male meaning that the state will rely on the “assignment” made someone actually trained to make the determination of gender rather than some woke lesbian mother.


41 posted on 03/30/2021 10:22:26 AM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: stars & stripes forever
#5: GOD made plans for each of us even BEFORE we were born. Changing genders is not one of them.

Exactly so. Eons and eons ago.

“ Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations. ”— Jeremiah 1:5


42 posted on 03/30/2021 10:22:46 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Lawmakers in several other states have already passed bills this year attempting to change the rights of transgender individuals.


Lawmakers in several other states have already passed bills this year attempting to protect the rights of female at birth individuals. Fixed


43 posted on 03/30/2021 10:29:57 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DuncanWaring

The “woke” will start having TBD put under sex on the birth certificate.


44 posted on 03/30/2021 10:30:03 AM PDT by toast
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: DuncanWaring

Nobody assigned anything.

The doctor looked and stated the obvious.


45 posted on 03/30/2021 10:33:06 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: PMAS

No, she blinded, got her head handed to her so she is back tracking. But these are solid EO. She is redeeming herself.


46 posted on 03/30/2021 10:34:51 AM PDT by jpsb
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

👍👍


47 posted on 03/30/2021 10:35:03 AM PDT by kanawa ((Securing the 2022/2024 elections is of paramount importance.))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Dilbert San Diego

“They make it sound as if such an “assignment” is an arbitrary designation...”

Yes, and that is exactly what they are trying to do, make gender arbitrary. Typical Communist tactic.


48 posted on 03/30/2021 10:35:24 AM PDT by Third Wheel
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: jpsb

IS she banning transgender females in Women College Sports ?


49 posted on 03/30/2021 10:37:50 AM PDT by PMAS (Vote with your wallets, there are 80 million of us - No Amazon, No Chy-Na made )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

So now the dimwit is trying to recover from her weakkneed veto of an actual law with an executive order that also will be tried in court!


50 posted on 03/30/2021 10:39:13 AM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: fatman6502002

She wouldn’t sign the bill her legislature passed that included Women’s College Sports because of her fear of the NCAA holding back events in her state and being sued by the NCAA.
Instead sent it back for only women’s sports in K-12th grade.

She claimed “legal scholars” told her she would likely lose court cases against the NCAA.

A leader fights the fights worth fighting, not just the cases you have a good chance of winning.

This is what it looks like when men play women’s college sports:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaab/2012/12/04/college-basketball-transgender-player-gabrielle-ludwig-robert-ludwig-mission-college/1744703/


51 posted on 03/30/2021 10:39:54 AM PDT by PMAS (Vote with your wallets, there are 80 million of us - No Amazon, No Chy-Na made )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: PMAS

yes


52 posted on 03/30/2021 10:40:02 AM PDT by jpsb
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 49 | View Replies]

To: PMAS

Yep, she took the coward’s approach due to the NCAA and pressure from deep pockets. Some battles are worth fighting.


53 posted on 03/30/2021 10:41:28 AM PDT by Stravinsky
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: PMAS

So you want he to waste $millions of taxpayer money fighting a fight she would likely lose because the bill was flawed. You are really not very bright. Good leaders fight the fights they can win, there is no sense of fighting for a bill that’s flawed in that it was written to broadly. It was a poorly written bill. You should be taking up your complaints with the SD Legislature since they wrote a c flawed bill and refused to fix it.


54 posted on 03/30/2021 10:46:25 AM PDT by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: Tennessee Nana

I agree. “Jr. High Women” sounds so much better.


55 posted on 03/30/2021 10:48:21 AM PDT by ImpBill ("America! Where are you now?")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: nutmeg

.


56 posted on 03/30/2021 10:49:09 AM PDT by nutmeg (God bless you and thank you, Rush)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Aevery_Freeman
"Both posts, your and mine, are needlessly petty."

That can be said of many comments on FR threads these days. Kinda sad when ya stop and think about it.

57 posted on 03/30/2021 10:51:22 AM PDT by ImpBill ("America! Where are you now?")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: beancounter13

Trying to catch up? Are you being intentionally dense? Or are some of you here just to cause strife?


58 posted on 03/30/2021 10:54:32 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: fatman6502002

Yes, you stick up and fight for the young girls and women entering college - who cares if it costs you a little.

Watch her interviews, that’s not what she said - she caved to the left plain and simple, and you fight the fight that need to fought - you don’t cower like the pussy you are because you might lose in court.

Arkansas Governor signed into law last week, a law banning any transgender males playing in women’s sports - he was crying about about the NCAA, and Arkansas College sports are much bigger than South Dakota.


59 posted on 03/30/2021 10:55:14 AM PDT by PMAS (Vote with your wallets, there are 80 million of us - No Amazon, No Chy-Na made )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 54 | View Replies]

To: jpsb

You are aware that the EO’s that you approve of are the SAME things she was trying to get changed that you say she is back tracking on?

She needs no redemption... She just needs more people to read past the opposition headlines.


60 posted on 03/30/2021 10:57:42 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 121-129 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson