Indiana Gov. Holcomb vetoes a bill banning transgender females from participating in girls school sports.
faced intense opposition before being approved by the GOP-dominated legislature that embraced what have become a pair of conservative causes across the country.
Republican sponsors of the bill said it was needed to protect the integrity of female sports and opportunities for girls to gain college athletic scholarship but pointed out no instances in the state of girls being outperformed by transgender athletes.that the legislation “falls short” of providing a consistent statewide policy for what he called “fairness in K-12 sports.”
Indiana lawmakers can override the governor’s veto with simple majorities in both the House and Senate. A veto override vote could happen as soon as May 24, which legislative leaders have scheduled as a tentative one-day meeting. Democrats argued Republican lawmakers were following a national conservative “culture war” with the transgender girls sports ban.
The permit repeal, called “constitutional carry” by gun-rights supporters in reference to the Second Amendment, was criticized by major law enforcement groups who argued eliminating the permit system would endanger officers by stripping them of a screening tool for quickly identifying dangerous people who shouldn’t have guns.
Carter, wearing his state police uniform, stood in the back of the Senate chamber as the bill was being debated. He said after the vote that approval of the measure “does not support law enforcement — period.”
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