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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublican governor VETOES bill banning transgender girls in sports
The governor of Indiana governor on Monday vetoed a bill banning transgender females from girls school sports.
Opponents of the bill argued it was a bigoted response to a problem that does not exist, with the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana saying it planned a lawsuit against what it called hateful legislation.
Republican sponsors of the bill said it was needed to protect the integrity of female sports and opportunities for girls to gain college athletic scholarship but pointed out no instances in the state of girls being outperformed by transgender athletes.
The Republican governor, Eric Holcomb, signaled support for the bill last month but said in his veto letter that the legislation falls short of providing a consistent statewide policy for what he called fairness in K-12 sports.
On the transgender sports bill veto, Holcomb also pointed to the Indiana High School Athletic Association, which has a policy covering transgender students wanting to play sports that match their gender identity and has said it has had no transgender girls finalize a request to play on a girls team.
Opponents of the bill argued it was a bigoted response to a problem that does not exist, with the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana saying it planned a lawsuit against what it called hateful legislation.
Republican sponsors of the bill said it was needed to protect the integrity of female sports and opportunities for girls to gain college athletic scholarship but pointed out no instances in the state of girls being outperformed by transgender athletes.
The Republican governor, Eric Holcomb, signaled support for the bill last month but said in his veto letter that the legislation falls short of providing a consistent statewide policy for what he called fairness in K-12 sports.
On the transgender sports bill veto, Holcomb also pointed to the Indiana High School Athletic Association, which has a policy covering transgender students wanting to play sports that match their gender identity and has said it has had no transgender girls finalize a request to play on a girls team.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/22/indiana-governor-vetoes-transgender-girls-sports-bill
Nice to see one Republican governor at least slightly more evolved than Kim Reynolds in my own state of Iowa. Of course, he then went on to sign a permit-less handgun carry bill.
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Republican governor VETOES bill banning transgender girls in sports (Original Post)
bullwinkle428
Mar 2022
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Yeah, it wouldn't shock me to see the legislature override the veto in some
bullwinkle428
Mar 2022
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Mad_Machine76
(24,353 posts)1. Good news!
Holcomb is thankfully one of the less worse Republican Governors. Our Republican supermajority legislature is still
bullwinkle428
(20,626 posts)2. Yeah, it wouldn't shock me to see the legislature override the veto in some
of these crazy-red states. Kim Reynolds will rubber stamp anything here in Iowa, but there may be a couple of others who are genuinely concerned about their place in history one day.
LetMyPeopleVote
(143,998 posts)3. Remarkable move by an R governor in the current environment.