State Senator and Senate President Pro Tempore Lee Schoenbeck was interviewed by Public Broadcasting recently, and is one of the dissenting voices on House Bill 1217, noting that he believes the bill is unnecessary because the High School Activities Association dealt with it 9 years ago, and the system works:
Republican State Senator Lee Schoenbeck says her partial veto takes out the worst parts of the bill that are bad for South Dakota, but…
“I still believe the bill should die because it is not needed,” Schoenbeck says. “Our South Dakota High School Activities Association, which is our local school districts dealt with this at the local level nine years ago. The governor had to deal with what was put on her desk. The fact is the train left nine years ago and for political reasons they’re making noise chasing it now.”
In that nine year span only one transgender girl has played on a girls’ sports team. The policy recently rejected a transgender girl athlete, because the South Dakota High School Athletics Association determined the applicant would have a competitive advantage.
You have to admit, that’s a lot of fuss for one student. And it seems like the High School Activities Association actually looked at it fairly.
Without new layers of government.
All these out of state bill factories and entities are causing all kinds of problems for South Dakotans. Had out of state Big Marijuana come in and poured millions into the state New Approach South Dakota would be broke and would have gone no where. Marsy’s Law was a debacle. No more! We will be dealing with the mess they created for some time now!
Personally I don’t ever want the SDHSAA deciding the physical fortitude of a teenage boy being able to beat down any of my Grandaughters in a physical game or not.
Along with that as I’ve previously stated here I believe that South Dakota alone will never change National culture on any issue but once enough States recognize the dilemma All girls face once a male is placed into their playing field the NCAA will be throttled back into reality.
Governor Noem is looking at all of South Dakota’s interests without harming any entity regardless of your preconceived premonitions that somehow we will force a National agenda with under 1/395 persuasion.
Getting 60% of a win is always better than zero.
Good points, Charlie. I like the amended legislation because it truly gets ahead of the culture before any damage is done. Chromosomes matter, and even 71-year-old Bruce Jenner as Caitlyn would likely medal if he were to compete this summer in the Olympics women’s heptathlon.
Thanks Cliff and SD’s population in relationship to the total US population would be 1/374. Still a high hurdle to overcome.
How many parents would love to see a boy take an athletic scholarship away from a girl by pretending to be a girl?
Just vote for 1217 and get this over with. We stand ready to finally put this to the test. The results may finally end these bills and retire some political careers once and for all.
The Governor is correct in pointing out the necessary changes.
Section 2 has nothing to do with the issue. Why is it even in there? It places an undue burden on the schools to prove a negative. It doesn’t even define what a performance-enhancing drug is. (Caffeine is a performance enhancing drug! )
Collegiate level sports involve private entities like the NCAA and private colleges, and the students are adults who can decide which schools to go to. They can opt in or out.
They should have sent the Governor a clean bill addressing K-12 and left it at that.
Anne, you are exactly correct on both counts. Increasingly, both the most liberal and most conservative are willing to use the government to engineer behaviour and a society they want with one-size fits all central planning. They just differ in the end results they desire and neither give a lick about individual freedoms.
I was fooled by the title and how the sponsors described their intent. In the future, I’ll read their bills with the same scrutiny I do with liberal legislation. I will not be fooled again.
Wait, aren’t you the guy who spoke out in support of Noem fighting against the will of South Dakotans who voted to legalize marijuana in a vote that wasn’t close? And yet you unironically whine about “individual freedoms” now?
I believe in the Constitution as it the bulwark which protects all individual freedoms. If the Constitution can be ignored with impunity (as the amendment you reference did), we have no individual freedoms.
Nice try to distract with a logic fallacy. Actually, it isn’t a very good try. Wholly weak nonsense.
Bull. It’s a naked attempt to distract from the fact that you are COMPLETELY fine with the government regulating personal freedom so long as you don’t like the freedom being exercised.
Do you even know everythign you say are logic fallacies making it whole cloth nonsense? It is clear your intellectual and emotional levels are both pre-high school. Do you live in a basement?
*Decries logical fallacies
*Uses grade school insults unironically
Yeah, Troy. Thanks for teaching us about intellectual maturity.
When you respond with a logic fallacy about a entirely different issue because you couldn’t argue either the relevant point or your own issue, then respond with “uhuh” and another logic fallacy, and the subject is about pot, it fits every stereotype of a doper whose biggest skill is video games and whose mommy does his laundry. It is what it is and I’m just trying to let know your game is weak.
Sure. Stick with it. You know people can see your post history, right? And that, frequently, when someone disagrees with you that you descend into petty name calling and insults? And since we are going to be petty, how’s that “Covid will be no worse than the swine flu” prediction working out for you, you utterly contemptable git?
Representative Rebecca Reimer, Majority Whip.
“the comments that I did not appreciate from the opponents were it’s rare, so does that make it okay? Or there’s more important things to be discussing. Does that make it okay? It just burns my you-know-what, I can’t even believe I’m hearing you say that. I’ve heard no harm. Put it aside because it’s rare. Probably disgusted is a big strong word for that…”
HB 1217 passed out of committee with support from every Republican.
House State Affairs, Do Pass:
Anderson Yea
Goodwin (Majority Whip) Yea
Kevin Jensen Yea
Kent Peterson Yea
Weise Yea
Beal Yea
Gosch Yea
Chris Johnson Yea
Reimer Yea
Chaffee Yea
Hansen Yea
Lesmeister – Democrat Nay
Jamie Smith – Democrat Nay
I wonder if Rep. Reimer was appreciative of the opponents’ testimony that told her that a conservative US Supreme Court found that discrimination against transgenders amounts to sex discrimination? How about the claim that transgender girls are “biological boys” as the sponsors claim non-stop, when the courts have decided that transgender girls are in fact girls.
Does Rep. Reimer even realize that anti-discrimination laws are intended to protect minorities from the popular viewpoints of majorities even here in South Dakota?
Is this the US Supreme Court ruling you are referencing?
Near the end of the majority opinion, Gorsuch wrote the ruling doesn’t “purport to address bathrooms, locker rooms, or anything else of the kind.”
“The only question before us is whether an employer who fires someone simply for being homosexual or transgender has discharged or otherwise discriminated against that individual ‘because of such individual’s sex,”
It befuddles me that legislators who, a few years ago, derided the Nat’l Conference of State Legislatures as a liberal bill factory turn around and blindly introduce bills pushed by ADF and other right wing bill factories. The only difference is NCSL is made up career feeders on bloated government programs whereas ADF cons cash out of the unsuspecting donors who fund James Dobson’s various money machines.