Democratic Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers vetoed a bill last Tuesday that would have prohibited biological boys from competing in girls’ sports teams. This action comes just weeks after the bill passed in the state Senate.
The legislation required students to compete in the sports category aligned with their biological sex. This marked Evers’ latest veto on such bills.
“This legislation, along with the harmful rhetoric surrounding it, harms LGBTQ Wisconsinites’ and kids’ mental health,” Evers stated in his veto message. “It emboldens anti-LGBTQ harassment, bullying, and violence, threatening the safety and dignity of LGBTQ Wisconsinites, especially our children.”
He continued, “I will veto any bill that makes Wisconsin a less safe, inclusive, and welcoming place for LGBTQ people and kids. I will continue to keep my promise of using every power available to defend them, protect their rights, and keep them safe.”
The bill, passed in October 2023, was part of a package that also banned men in women’s collegiate sports and restricted physicians from performing sex change surgery or administering puberty blockers to minors. Despite Evers’ assurances to the transgender community, Wisconsin Republicans pushed the legislation forward.
Republican Representative Barbara Dittrich, co-author of the bill, criticized Evers in a statement. “While Governor Evers and his supporters claim this legislation is about hate and exclusion, they ignore the fact that it provides categories for every Wisconsin student while protecting the safety and fairness of girls’ sports,” she said.
Wisconsin Republicans enacted the bill with the intention of safeguarding children and girls participating in athletics throughout the state.
Leave it to an Ivory Tower Elite to change the writing on the wall calling for Four Hundred Years of Higher Taxes for Higher Education all the while alowing MALES to Dominate WOMEN.. Disgusting.
What about the other kids. You fail to view the whole picture😡😡
When is his next election?! Meanwhile, prepare to sue him to BANKRUPTCY for the very first injury from a guy in girl’s sports! And meanwhile, urge EVERY girl to withdraw from every such event AT THE LAST MOMENT before event starts, hopefully causing the greatest backlash from angry parents and guests AGAINST SUCH A DIVISIVE policy AND ADMINISTRATION…..so people vote better next time!!!
Will never vote for him!!
Bleeding heart liberals voting for something so insanely against American values is just sick
A sad, backsliding day for women and Wisconsin.
This infuriates me!!! What do we need to do to stop this??? I’m so sick of the governor and his LGBTQ. Flying the flag at the capital??? Really?? Let’s fly the Christian flag!! Something our country was built on!!!
You’re sick, they don’t belong together, why don’t you start their own league and let them play among themselves not real women, not in any of their spaces, we the people DO NOT SUPPORT THIS CRAP,
EVERS MUST GO!!!!!!!
Great, one more way to limit girls advancement in athletics and for those poor children who are confused about their bodies ( as many are at those ages) welcome to a life of permanent medical castration. Hope when you’re 25 you’re comfortable with the decisions adults should not have allowed you to make when you were a CHILD!!!