“Unfortunately, as we reviewed those [orders], we found that they are not providing the protections that she says they do, particularly with college athletes,” says attorney Matt Sharp of Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a law firm that’s been urging Governor Kristi Noem (R-South Dakota) to sign the sports bill. “Her executive order amounts to little more than a suggestion for colleges to protect women’s sports.”
To put it another way, Sharp says there’s no teeth to it. “That’s why the legislation was so important,” he continues, “because it would have provided those protections for every girl from kindergarten to college and given them legal recourse if their rights are violated.”
Noem’s orders, which cover K-12 and college respectively, come after she vetoed legislation to bar biological males from competing in female sports. Governor Noem says boys should compete in boys’ sports and girls should compete in girls’ sports. Still, Noem recently told “Tucker Carlson Tonight” that the NCAA is a bully, and that the bill she was given by her legislature was a trial lawyer’s dream. As a result, Noem issued what is called a “style and form veto” for legislators to make changes. They opted not to, and Noem vetoed the bill.
“We were very disappointed that Governor Noem vetoed this very meaningful and important piece of legislation that would have protected every girl from kindergarten to college [giving them] the ability to have a fair and level playing field in sports and making sure that biological males are not allowed to compete and take away spots and opportunities for females,” adds Sharp.
“This is legislation that several other states have passed – including Idaho and Mississippi and Arkansas – and we would have loved to have seen South Dakota be the next state to pass these important protections. That’s what makes us so disappointed with Governor Noem for vetoing this and not standing firm and showing leadership on this important issue.”
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
There is plenty of teeth in this bill that empowers disoriented or dishonest males on a mission to steal or redistribute glory and victory from honest hard training young women to bite them in their most vulnerable backside body parts. These Liberals are not content to give away trophies for just showing up, now they want to give the trophies and emoluments to people who do not even belong on the field in the first place. They would redistribute heaven into hell if they had the power, and are currently doing everything in their weak power to do so. Power belongs to THE PEOPLE, not to the pathological. Noem is beginning to act like one and a major disappointment to true Conservatives. She who stands for nothing falls for anything.
I thought Noem was doing right here.. SEEMS WE had the wool pulled over our eyes again…
So you feel like you just graduated from a Liberal College and got issued your sheepskin that is used to pull the wool over your eyes?
No. ITs more that i feel she started out strong (on the covid issue), but seems to now show she doesn’t have as much of a spine as many of us hoped..
Like I stated in a previous column, I hope Noem did not cave in to the woke culture and the woke corporations, like Amazon. I hope she does what she said she will do and bring this important issue to the legislature in May or June of this year. I will watch this closely. I hope that Neom does not turn out to be a Republican In Name Only!!!
More and more it seems SHE IS becoming one…
At first glance, Noem seemed like presidential (or close to it) timber to me. I can certainly warm up to a strong, brainy, patriotic conservative woman. She has stumbled. All it takes is one good stumble. Nikki Haley was another good choice at first — she stumbled too. Sucking up to Trump for forgiveness doesn’t work well.