{"id":1491046,"date":"2022-05-25T07:44:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T11:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1491046"},"modified":"2022-05-25T07:44:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T11:44:48","slug":"indiana-lawmakers-override-governors-veto-to-enact-law-trans-athletes-from-girls-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/indiana-lawmakers-override-governors-veto-to-enact-law-trans-athletes-from-girls-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Lawmakers Override Governor\u2019s Veto to Enact Law Trans Athletes from Girls Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Findiana-lawmakers-override-governors-veto-to-enact-law-trans-athletes-from-girls-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=1491046&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--><p class=\"subheading\">GOP lawmakers in Indiana voted Tuesday to override a veto by Governor Eric Holcomb (R) and enact a law banning male athletes identifying as female from competing in girls\u2019 sports.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana joins at least a dozen other U.S. states in enacting similar laws.<\/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>\u201cState senators voted 32-15 in favor of overriding Gov. Eric Holcomb following the same action in a 67-28 vote by the House earlier in the day,\u201d the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sports-indiana-government-and-politics-legislature-9256de6616bd71e6b11424fa4e2e260b\/gallery\/b7256ec248d04270a71affb9faa29d09\">reports<\/a>. \u201cHolcomb had said in his veto message that bill did not provide a consistent policy for what he called \u201cfairness in K-12 sports\u201d when he\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sports-indiana-legislature-congress-ed1a6def471929e4bc4e33473c807c49\">unexpectedly vetoed it in March<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of pro-trans activists protested at the state capitol but to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>Only minutes after the governor\u2019s veto was overridden, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit on behalf of a 10-year-old boy who identifies as female and wants to play on an all-girls softball team. The purpose of the suit is to seek blockage of the override before the transgender sports ban is set to take place on July 1.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Opponents of the measure cite the lack of cases in Indiana of male athletes dominating female sports leagues. However, the NCAA had never had an issue with men dominating female swimming before they did, as in the case with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><em>Trans swimmer Lia Thomas after winning the 2022 Ivy League Championships (Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>However, despite the lack of cases, Republican\u00a0Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray says he sees the bill as a way of preserving \u201csimple fairness.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lia Thomas just took first place at the 2022 NCAA Division 1 Women&#8217;s Swimming &#038; Diving Championships in the 500 freestyle. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SaveWomensSports?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SaveWomensSports<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UWvDQMYHRJ\">pic.twitter.com\/UWvDQMYHRJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SwipeWright\/status\/1504586948400369671?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t like to get to the state of Indiana sued, but it happens from time to time,\u201d Bray said. \u201cIt\u2019s a policy that I think we can stand behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indiana\u2019s Eric Holcomb now joins Utah\u2019s Spencer Cox among GOP governors who have defied the overwhelming sentiment of their party to preserve girls\u2019 sports only to be overridden by Republican state senators and representatives who haven\u2019t forgotten their base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP lawmakers in Indiana voted Tuesday to override a veto by Governor Eric Holcomb (R) and enact a law banning male athletes identifying as female from competing in girls\u2019 sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1491046","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\/1491046","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\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491046\/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=1491046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}