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.
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Kristi Noem is a woman in full ... which appears to irk your arrogant superiority complex.
No, liar, you want her to commit hari-kari with a bill the leftists will attack in Clinton-Obama appointed judges, costing the state millions and resulting in the leftist degenerates getting a fixture via a leftist court. Your stealth efforts to help THEM is duly noted.
I hate, hate this new term of "assigned" for a person's sex.
I was NOT "assigned" the sex of female -- I was born a female.
If you want to stop this progressive nonsense, we need to start at refusing to use the terminology that they use in order to push their agenda.
I think that they want to use the word "asssigned" so that it seems like you could "re-assign", since they were just "assigned" --- nothing permanent about that.
NO, no, no! Always push back on this. No one is "assigned" a sex, they are BORN a sex. Period!
Assigned female even before birth. Around the world there are parents who are aborting their babies because they want one of a different sex. So sex is NOT determined at birth. It is earlier than that. Sorry NPR, you fail science.
That is because that is what they believe. They believe that sex is arbitrary. It is not. Push back, push back HARD on this word "assignment". Always say, no, I was Born female or male, I was not "assigned".
Yeah, ok I’m a liar - in your own words you are are worried about the leftists, Clinton-Obama judges and losing millions of dollars instead of standing up and doing the right thing - you are a total surrender monkey.
Stealth efforts help them ? Running scared of them helps them. So better run and hide before they get you.
You are not only a n liar but a fool. Have nice day
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You got it exactly.
Sounds like a BS attempt to save face after her rejection of that bill...
She can pull this stunt because she knows very well that there are many federal judges everywhere who are available to nullify this cowardly EO crap...
Her time is up...
I knew she’d come through.
Yep, nothing is as noble as losing with honor.
Mitt Romney proved that.
Yep, nothing as noble as cowering to the Left.
Mitt Romney lost because he cowered to the Left
Yes, and was able to hold his head high for his nobility.
Would it work to define men and boys as those with XY sex chromosomes and women and girls with XX?
LOL - I almost thought you were serious with those comments
Really? Losing with nobility is a Republican tradition.
Much more important than winning.
I read it fast, that’s why you almost had me
As you illustrated in the post I originally responded to, you exhibit very good Republican instincts.
I’ll let you figure it out.
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