{"id":1401725,"date":"2022-03-26T11:30:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T15:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1401725"},"modified":"2022-03-26T11:30:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T15:30:28","slug":"utah-legislature-overrides-governors-veto-of-bill-banning-transgender-youth-in-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utah-legislature-overrides-governors-veto-of-bill-banning-transgender-youth-in-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah Legislature Overrides Governor\u2019s Veto of Bill Banning Transgender Youth in Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futah-legislature-overrides-governors-veto-of-bill-banning-transgender-youth-in-sports%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1401725&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Utah\u2019s state legislature overrode a governor\u2019s veto of a bill that would ban transgender youth from competing on girls\u2019 teams on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Spencer Cox (R-UT)\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovCox\/status\/1506378316147617799?s=20&#038;t=tvMowKZajM_tlyzoCBfijA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vetoed<\/a>\u00a0the legislation on Tuesday because he \u201ctried to do what I feel is the right thing regardless of the consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Utah House\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/utah-transgender-sports-ban-3ffc9205bfbeb05ae3a72425950208ef\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted<\/a>\u00a056-18 and the state Senate 21-8, giving the legislature the supermajority necessary to override Gov. Cox\u2019s veto. Eight Utah legislators changed their initial votes and joined the supermajority.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The NBA\u2019s Utah Jazz issued a statement against the legislature\u2019s veto override. \u201cThe Utah Jazz oppose discriminatory legislation. We are committed to our values of inclusivity, mutual respect and fair play,\u201d the statement\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryanwmcdonald\/status\/1507470378808983556\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cBeyond basketball, we hope for an equitable solution that shows love and compassion for all our youth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NBA\u2019s 2023 All-Star game is scheduled to occur in Salt Lake City, Utah, in February. However, the bill\u2019s opponents were worried that Salt Lake City would face the same fate as North Carolina after the NBA moved the All-Star game from Charlotte after the state passed a bill ordering transgender individuals to use the bathroom of their gender assigned at birth.<\/p>\n<p>Utah school districts were similarly worried about potential lawsuits from pro-transgender groups like the American Civil Liberties Union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply disappointed and saddened at today\u2019s votes by the Utah Legislature to discriminate against transgender youth to exclude them from participating fully on sports teams,\u201d the ACLU of Utah\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/acluutah\/status\/1507467586945966083?s=20&#038;t=hMpGcDezPjLRFYHjo4bUuQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cLitigation to stop HB11 from taking effect is now both necessary and inevitable to ensure Constitutional promises of equal protection for all Utahns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, to ease school districts from the fear of litigation, Utah\u2019s legislature passed HB3001, a\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/le.utah.gov\/~2022S3\/bills\/static\/HB3001.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bill<\/a>\u00a0to indemnify school districts and the activities association from litigation stemming from the transgender sports bill.<\/p>\n<p>Utah\u2019s law will go into effect on July 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utah\u2019s state legislature overrode a governor\u2019s veto of a bill that would ban transgender youth from competing on girls\u2019 teams on Friday. Governor Spencer Cox (R-UT)\u00a0vetoed\u00a0the legislation on Tuesday because<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}