Tag: HB 1008
South Dakota House Fails To Override Governor’s Veto of Bill Attacking Trans Children
Failing to reach the required two-thirds majority needed, today the South Dakota House of Representatives voted 36 to 29 on a motion to override Republican Governor Dennis Daugaard’s veto of HB 1008 – reckless legislation attacking the dignity and rights of transgender children in public schools by attempting to prevent them from using restrooms and other facilities consistent with their gender identity.
TLDEF Urges South Dakota Governor to Veto Bill Targeting Transgender Students for Discrimination
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) urges South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard to veto a bill that would bar transgender students from using bathrooms and locker rooms that match who they are as boys and girls. South Dakota lawmakers passed House Bill 1008 last week. The bill restricts facility access to students of the “same biological sex,” and defines that to mean “the physical condition of being male or female as determined by a person’s chromosomes and identified at birth by a person’s anatomy.”
Major Child Advocacy Groups Urge Nation’s Governors to Reject Attacks on Trans Children
As South Dakota Gov. Daugaard decides whether or not to sign extreme legislation into law, organisations condemn such proposals as “shameful” and say they “foster discrimination and do harm to students, their families, and their communities”.
South Dakota Governor to Meet With Trans Kids Ahead of Decision on Signing Discriminatory
Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation responded to the news that South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard will meet with transgender students before making his decision on whether to sign HB 1008 – outrageous legislation that would prevent trans students in public schools from using restrooms and other facilities consistent with their gender identity.
South Dakota Legislature Unleashes SECOND Attack On Trans Kids In Two Days
House State Affairs Committee votes to block transgender kids from participating in sports programs and other activities, birth certificate legislation would have broad array of unintended consequences for all South Dakotans.