Tick Tock, Tick Tock

Today is the deadline for governor Dennis Daugaard of South Dakota… does he make South Dakota the first state in the union to criminalize us?

Deadline Nears for Anti-Trans 'Bathroom Bill' in South Dakota
Advocate
By Trudy Ring
February 29, 2016

All eyes — at least the eyes of those interested in transgender people’s rights — are on South Dakota as the deadline approaches for Gov. Dennis Daugaard to sign or veto a bill restricting transgender students’ access to restrooms and other gender-segregated facilities.

Daugaard, a Republican, has until 11:59 p.m. Central time Tuesday to either sign or veto the legislation, House Bill 1008. If he does not do either, it will become law automatically.
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If HB 1008 becomes law, South Dakota would be the first state with such a statute, and it would put South Dakota at odds with the U.S. Department of Education, which has held that discriminatory treatment of transgender students is banned under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits sex discrimination. The department can withhold federal funds from schools that violate this law.

It would put South Dakota school districts in “the untenable position of choosing between complying with state or federal law, putting them at risk of losing up to nearly $200 million in federal funding for their schools in addition to the cost of inevitable litigation,” said a Human Rights Campaign press release issued Monday.

Tick tock, tick tock…

I have a feeling that this will be a very bad year for us and for lesbians and gays as the Republicans wants to gather votes by showing that they are strong against our rights.