Gov. Noem and Republican Governors Call on President Biden to Defend Equal Opportunities for Girls and Women
PIERRE, S.D. – Today, Governor Kristi Noem led a coalition of 15 Republican Governors urging President Joe Biden to defend equal opportunities for girls and women. In a letter to President Biden, the governors challenge him to reject the rule and policy changes proposed by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which would completely reinterpret Title IX. Title IX was passed 50 years ago to prevent discrimination “on the basis of sex” in education and athletic competition.
“Over the past two years, we have heard calls from many in our society to ‘trust the science’ with regards to the COVID-19 pandemic,” wrote Governor Noem and her colleagues. “We ask your Administration to trust the science on human biology; to realize that there are real, wonderful biological differences between women and men; to understand that those differences impact us in many ways – some subtle, some profound; to recognize that athletic competition is one of the arenas in which these differences are the most striking.”
The Governors took particular issue with the implications of these policy changes for the National School Lunch Program. “To be clear, your Administration would take lunch money away from our kids and grandkids in pursuit of a radical agenda that has no basis in science and which is not supported by the vast majority of the American people,” wrote the governors.
A federal judge recently blocked DOE’s Title IX “guidance” on the grounds that it “directly interferes with and threatens Plaintiff States’ ability to continue enforcing their state laws.” Earlier this year, South Dakota passed the toughest law in the country to defend fairness in girls’ sports.
The Governors also echoed arguments made by Republican Attorneys General, pointing out that the proposed policy changes from DOE and USDA impose new and unlawful regulatory measures in violation of the Administrative Procedures Act.
The letter was led by Governor Kristi Noem and co-signed by Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, Idaho Governor Brad Little, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves, Missouri Governor Mike Parson, Montana Governor Greg Gianforte, Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, Virginia Governor Glenn Younkin, and Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon.
You can find the Governors’ letter to President Biden here.
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So on this issue she cares about the vast majority of the American people. But if it’s abortion or marijuana, it’s her way regardless of what the majority want. What a hypocrite.
well see there’s this constitutional right of individuals to life, even if the majority wants them dead. I realize a lot of women want to kill their annoying family members, but they shouldn’t be allowed to. .
That’s the abortion issue: the individual’s right to life, even if they are annoying.
And speaking of annoying people, As for the marijuana thing, the majority thinks it should be legal but attitudes toward it might change. We have a relative in her 50s who uses medical marijuana for back pain. She had surgery ten months ago. Been using pot ever since. She’s happy as can be, no longer in pain, but not getting better, not returning to work, not going to Physical therapy, not getting out of bed before noon and so on. Is this the desired, therapeutic effect? Her immediate family thinks she’s annoying.
Do you think they should kill her?
The issue is what the majority wants. The majority of the country supports access to abortion and does not believe it ends a life. You personally not agreeing with that fact does not change the majority opinion – the original argument I commented on.
I cannot comment on the remainder of your post as it is incoherent rambling. You want to kill your pot smoking relative?
there was a time when the majority thought the African slave trade and the genocide of Native Americans were fine and dandy ideas too.
whatever the mob wants is okay with you?
You can’t comment on the second part of what I said because you can’t understand it?
Let me explain: the pro-choice position is that it should be okay to kill children, because they can be very annoying, and no other reason is necessary. But why put an age limit on it? Why not make it legal to kill anybody who is annoying you?
If we are going to make killing annoying people legal, we are going to have a problem with the people who smoke a lot of pot, because if you have ever spent any time with a doper, you realize they can be very annoying. In case you have missed this, dopers aren’t motivated to do anything except clean out the refrigerator.
So you’re okay with Noem preaching what the mob wants when it aligns with your beliefs, but not when it doesn’t. Thank you for defining hypocrisy for us.
Jenny, move to Minnesota.
Bye bye
Maybe you should move to Afghanistan if you want to push theocratic law.
The theocrats are the adherents of an ancient Egyptian religion who believe that the soul, or Ka, enters the body with the first breath and leaves with the last.
There is no scientific evidence to support this belief, and modern medical science has determined that life begins and ends with electrical activity.
Ancient Egyptian beliefs have no place informing public policy in this country.
We are using the modern day equivalent which is government run via religion, you know those christian nationalists that are attempting to align our government with their god and impose their religious beliefs on everybody. Try to keep up, Anne.
Christians believe in a soul. There was an LTE published many years ago, in the Argus, by somebody who claimed to be a clergyman, who said abortion was moral because we don’t know exactly when the body is “ensouled.”
Since we don’t know if the unborn child has a soul or not, it’s okay to kill him.
That was his hypothesis and I wondered why it couldn’t be used to argue the opposite: if you aren’t sure if the child has a soul, maybe you should play it safe and let him live.
Anyway, medical science doesn’t have any evidence for or against a soul and has established that life ends when the lights go out in the Central Nervous System. It doesn’t matter how undeveloped or damaged that brain is, any electrical activity noted on an EEG is proof of life. All fifty states have brain death laws, establishing this.
This is a matter of science, not religion. The Christian belief in a soul, a belief developed, apparently, during the Israelites’ sojourn in Egypt, can actually be used to argue in favor of abortion.
Saying that it is a tenet of Christianity that abortion is immoral is factually incorrect. It is simply a coincidence. You could say the same thing about slavery: the abolitionist movement began with the Society of Friends, AKA Quakers. We don’t consider the abhorrence of slavery to be a religious belief. We shouldn’t consider the abhorrence of abortion to be one either. It’s a civil rights issue.
Someday, future generations will wonder how society ever condoned it.
Jenny already lives in Minnesota and has stated she is a proud card carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America. More drugs, Brains destroyed, homelessness, shootings, murders, car jackings, crime and a very popular catch and release program. It’s all swell in Minnesota.
Just because I don’t agree with you, I should move? Sounds communist, adhere to those in power without question? No thank you.
However, using your logic, and assuming you don’t approve of the current federal administration, you should move out of the US. Bye bye.
The People’s Republic of Minnesota would love to have her and tax everything she touches.
That’s SD. MN doesn’t tax basic necessities that the working class needs to support the wealthy elite.
Nothing in the constitution about boys turning into girls. This is a state issue, if anything at all.
Respectfully, Noem is struggling to find a relevant ‘straw man’ to fight and overcome. When it comes to the difficult matters associated with running the State, Noem hops a plane out of town. Has the DOC gotten any better? Marijuana rollout has been tragically slow, and the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe has enjoyed staggering profits and remarkable revenue from the gigantic void that the State allowed to be created. In fact, unlike the place in Hartford, the FSST isn’t even selling medical grade marijuana, but full-bore, psychosis-inducing, recreational pot. Rather than fighting transgender kids, how about finding a way to safeguard the motoring public on I-29 from a tremendous surge in DUI-Ds?
Lest anyone is confused by comments by bony mouse, there is no difference between medical pot and recreational pot. They are the same product, sold by the same stores.
yes Anna, it’s exactly the same thing, and has the same effect: it makes people uninterested in doing anything but cleaning out the refrigerator.
It’s the perfect drug for people in hospice, who are permanently disabled and don’t have much time left.
But for people who need to get back on their feet and resume working for a living, its use needs to be severely restricted.
Your views on cannabis are straight from the reefer madness era Anne.
Cannabis can have a myriad of effects and when used for things such as an anxiety medication, opiate withdrawl tool, appetite stimulating medication for chemo patients, etc can make people much more successful in functioning in this all holy workforce that you espouse.
I know more cannabis users making an honest 6 figures these days than not.
We need to open our eyes in SD to the half-truths spun by the marijuana industry in thier attempt to legalize recreational cannabis. Some of the half-truths include:
1. Legalizing marijuana would save taxpayers millions for our legal system. 2. Our prison system is overrun with people arrested for an ounce of
marijuana.
3. Our state would have a new tax funding source to compensate the state for the cost associated with marijuana.
4. Legalization will create a windfall to assist with other services as well.
5. Legalization is more humane as it would provide treatment
instead of criminalizing addicts.
6. Our kids would not gain access but would be educated on the dangers of drugs.
7. Alcohol is just as bad, and opponents are like the prohibitionists of the 1920s.
The truth is, as South Dakotans signed the petition in 2020 and now again in 2022, too few took the time to investigate the huge financial and social impacts the legalization of marijuana had in the states that passed similar bills.
Colorado, California, and Washington have years of negative consequences and can provide us with real data on the terrible impact legalization has had in their state and to their state’s bottom line.
Let’s all look to the data from other states to understand the fact-based negative consequences of recreational pot. The industry has decades of expereince in perfecting their message in other states, and has millions of dollars to spread it in SD. May South Dakota common sense prevail in protecting our children, our communities and our state from the marijuana industry’s upcoming ballot initiative.