Posted on 03/30/2021 7:43:35 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem signed two executive orders (pdf) (pdf) Monday evening to limit participants in female sports to biological females. This comes after the state legislature failed to make proposed revisions to the bill that would have stopped transgender females from competing in girls and women’s sports.
“Only girls should play girls’ sports. 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,” wrote Noem on Monday.
When HB 1217 was returned to the legislature for revisions, The American Civil Liberties Union of South Dakota criticized the state legislature’s efforts to ban transgender females from playing in women’s sports.
“House Bill 1217 has never been about leveling the playing field for student athletes,” said ACLU of South Dakota advocacy manager Jett Jonelis in a March 25 press statement. “It’s been obvious from the beginning that this discriminatory legislation is about creating a solution to problems that don’t exist and, in the process, harming some of the most vulnerable people in our state.”
The governor, who had previously signaled her support for HB 1217, declined to sign the measure unless lawmakers accepted changes that would exclude collegiate sports from the ban. Because the changes to HB 1217 were not made by the legislature, the bill was considered vetoed and Noem decided to use her executive authority and ensure fairness in women’s sports.
Noem said the bill, without the revisions, would be challenged by civil and private groups and the state would lose at the collegiate level. She argued the bill’s passage would have negative consequences for South Dakota if the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) or other organizations opposed to the...
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So, do you care to elaborate on that profound wisdom with respect to the EOs written by President Donald J Trump?
You mean, the ones that Biden undid already?
I can’t comment on failed executive branches, but easily edicts made with the stroke of a pen are easily unmade with a stroke of a pen.
Overturning a law though, that takes work.
All the while she is out west helping to coordinate gov’t resources to fight early season wildfires threatening suburban communities.
“Executive orders are the last refuge of the failed executive.”
Agree, and we’ll see if the orders get challenged in court. If not, then they are meaningless.
We live in a republic, not an executive diktat system.
Nothing she says on the subject is congruent with any other statement, the bill’s language or her EO.
And none of it makes sense.
She’s dead Jim.
So, what has happened to Trump’s executive orders since he left office?
Executive orders are not law. They are duct tape.
At least they’re not Gorilla Glue, no telling where that would end up.
“We live in a republic, not an executive diktat system.”
That’s so last century, man.
Seems to me that if a law is not to their liking Democrats just ignore it.
Like they do with immigration law.
South Dakota Governor Signs Bills to Protect Gun Rights
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Damage control.
She knows she choked.
Is there a law in South Dakota that allows boys to compete in girls sports?
This is an executive order requiring schools to obey the law. A new law was never needed.
This is what was needed.
This will make many homosexual men who want to become women very angry. After all, they were never able to compete in mens sports and win. this was their only hope to win........By cheating and having their mental illness take superiority over natural women
Her Chamber of Crony capitalist Chief of Staff
really did her in .
Yes her chief of staff is a Big Shot in that evil organization .
Now we know why she collapsed .
So some folks on this board are excoriating her for doing the right thing? Okay...
The failing of a conservative. Refusing to enact a law because she thinks it might changed in court. Ignore the fact lawyers challenge laws every day to see if they can expand the meaning of the law
Do democrats ever withdraw proposed legislation because they “think” there might be a constitutional challenge that will be difficult to defend? No. That’s why our side continues to lose and will do so until we get legislators who are more concerned with fulfilling a conservative agenda, instead of pleasing liberals.
“Only girls should play girls’ sports. 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,” wrote Noem on Monday. “
I like that. But what’s the executive fo college athletics?
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