Governor Kristi Noem Gives Trans Girls The Gift of Discrimination For Christmas | Queer News Tonight
Channel: Queer News Tonight
Date: 2021-12-23

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) has announced her intention to propose an anti-trans sports bill that would prohibit trans women and girls from playing on women’s sports teams in public schools. Noem has long opposed allowing transgender students to participate in school sports as their gender, but she vetoed a transgender school sports ban that had passed the legislature in March because she feared backlash from the NCAA and thought that the wording of the bill left it vulnerable to being overturned in court. Despite deciding to veto it, she then implemented executive orders to prevent trans women at public high schools and universities from participating in women’s sports. Now, it seems she hopes to enshrine these rules into law. In a statement, she said, “Common sense tells us that males have an unfair physical advantage over females in athletic competition." While Gov. Noem and many proponents of these bills claim that they protect girls and women in sports, they don’t do anything to address the actual barriers that girls face in school sports. According to the Women’s Sports Foundation, 23% more boys than girls participated in school sports in 2018, and 87% of NCAA colleges and universities offer disproportionately more athletic opportunities to men than to women. The barriers cited by the Women’s Sports Foundation include bullying (that girls are mocked for playing sports), unsupportive families, abusive coaching, little training for school staff on gender equality, and a lack of access to mental and physical health care access. Transgender girls participating in sports was not mentioned in the organization’s report as a reason girls don’t want to do sports.

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