{"id":1965801,"date":"2023-07-06T16:08:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T20:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-carolina-governor-a-democrat-vetoes-bill-that-would-protect-womens-sports-from-biological-men\/"},"modified":"2023-07-06T16:09:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T20:09:16","slug":"north-carolina-governor-a-democrat-vetoes-bill-that-would-protect-womens-sports-from-biological-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-carolina-governor-a-democrat-vetoes-bill-that-would-protect-womens-sports-from-biological-men\/","title":{"rendered":"NC Governor, a Democrat, rejects bill safeguarding women&#8217;s sports from biological males."},"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%2Fnorth-carolina-governor-a-democrat-vetoes-bill-that-would-protect-womens-sports-from-biological-men%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=1965801&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>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Roy Cooper\u2019s veto comes after biological male seriously injured state volleyball player<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure><figcaption>\n      Pro-women&#8217;s sports protesters \/ Getty Images<br \/>\n    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>North Carolina Democratic governor Roy Cooper has made a controversial decision by vetoing a bill that aimed to prevent trans-identifying biological men from participating in women&#8217;s sports. In his statement, Cooper argued that the policy makes &#8220;broad, uninformed decisions&#8221; about &#8220;vulnerable children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cooper&#8217;s veto nullifies the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncleg.gov\/BillLookUp\/2023\/h574\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fairness in Women\u2019s Sports Act<\/a>, which was passed by the state&#8217;s GOP-controlled legislature last month with support from two Democrats. Despite disagreeing with his party-mates, Cooper believes that the bill would only fuel the political &#8220;culture wars&#8221; by &#8220;making broad, uninformed decisions about an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-halts-travel-in-northern-city-as-coronavirus-fiasco-continues\/\" title=\"China Halts Travel in Northern City as Coronavirus Fiasco Continues\">extremely small number<\/a> of vulnerable children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If the North Carolina legislature overturns the veto, the state will join at least 22 others that have already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-president-from-walmart\/\" title=\"A president from Walmart?\">prohibited transgender athletes<\/a> from competing on sports teams that align with their gender identity. Proponents of this policy argue that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aclu-issues-twitter-thread-allegedly-debunking-myths-about-trans-students-in-sports\/\" title=\"ACLU Issues Twitter Thread Allegedly Debunking \u2018Myths\u2019 About Trans Students In Sports\">allowing biological men<\/a> to compete in women&#8217;s sports could lead to physical harm. Unfortunately, this issue has already manifested in North Carolina, where a biological male seriously injured a female opponent during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-carolina-governor-a-democrat-vetoes-bill-that-would-protect-womens-sports-from-biological-men\/\" title=\"NC Governor, a Democrat, rejects bill safeguarding women's sports from biological males.\">state high school volleyball game<\/a>. Payton McNabb, the injured girl, suffered a concussion and neck injury after taking a spike to the face.<\/p>\n<p>Riley Gaines, a former collegiate swimmer who competed against national transgender swimmer Lia Thomas and stood alongside McNabb in April to support the North Carolina bill, strongly criticized Cooper for vetoing the measure. Gaines reminded the governor of McNabb&#8217;s devastating injury and expressed disappointment in his decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey Gov, reminder that this happened to a girl in your state. She is partially paralyzed on her right side and her vision is still impaired,&#8221; Gaines <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Riley_Gaines_\/status\/1676767637198569472?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Wednesday of McNabb. &#8220;It&#8217;s not me who has to go to sleep tonight knowing I&#8217;m enabling this.&#8221; McNabb also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paytonmcnabb_\/status\/1676709203417735170?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticized<\/a> the veto, feeling that her injury had been &#8220;discounted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today Gov Cooper discarded the safety and opportunities of female athletes for the feelings of males,&#8221; McNabb tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his argument about &#8220;vulnerable children,&#8221; Cooper claimed that the transgender sports bill is &#8220;neither fair nor needed&#8221; and appeared to be &#8220;for campaign purposes only.&#8221; However, there is evidence that contradicts this claim. State senator Val Applewhite, who was endorsed by Cooper in 2022, supported the measure. Applewhite received &#8220;frightening&#8221; messages from supporters of transgender athletes, including one who called her a &#8220;transphobic cisgender whore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m telling you, people are afraid to speak publicly,&#8221; Applewhite told the <em>Carolina Journal<\/em>. &#8220;Like to say, &#8216;Val, I agree with you,&#8217; because you become labeled as transphobic or you&#8217;re met with backlash. Even the coaches and parents that I spoke to, they don&#8217;t want to say it publicly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper vetoed a bill banning trans-identifying biological men from women&#8217;s sports, claiming it unfairly impacts &#8220;vulnerable children.&#8221; His decision nullifies the Fairness Act, despite a biological male causing serious harm to a female volleyball player. Pro-women&#8217;s sports protesters express disappointment with Cooper&#8217;s veto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2088,"featured_media":1965802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965801","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\/2088"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1965802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}