North Dakota governor signs trans sports bans after vetoing them in past years

Portrait of Governor Doug Burgum
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North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) has signed two trans sports bans into law. H.B. 1249 and H.B. 1489 collectively prohibit trans girls from participating in women’s sports in kindergarten through college.

Burgum vetoed similar legislation in 2021, and the legislature did not have enough votes to override it. This time, the legislature would have been able to override his veto had he decided not to sign the bills.

He said in a statement that state lawmakers are “resoundingly determined” to ban trans girls from women’s sports even though “there still has not been a single recorded incident of a transgender girl playing or entering the process to even ask to play on a North Dakota girls’ team.”

He added that other states with anti-trans sports bans have…

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