MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota’s governing body for high school sports says it will follow state law — not President Donald Trump’s executive order — and continue to allow transgender athletes to compete in prep athletics. Associations in some other states signaled they also may defy the president’s order, but others were taking a wait-and-see approach. The Minnesota organization said in…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – Turning Point USA brought speaker Riley Gaines to campus. Gaines is an activist seeking to “reclaim feminism.” Gaines has spoken across the country about barring transgender women from women’s sports, on the basis of safety and fairness. Gaines was a college swimmer at the University of Kentucky, who came to prominence for criticizing Lia Thomas’s participation…
The Riley Gaines CenterFARGO (KVRR) – Former University of Kentucky swim champion and activist Riley Gaines is coming to Fargo. Gaines will speak at a ticketed event that’s open to the public at North Dakota State University on April 10. Gaines is an outspoken opponent of allowing transgender athletes to compete against females. She competed in an NCAA swimming championship…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Some nonprofits are disappointed in Governor Doug Burgum for signing two transgender athlete bans into law. Two house bills in the North Dakota legislature prohibit transgender girls and women from joining female sports teams in K-12 and college. The Biden administration recently proposed a rule to forbid outright bans on transgender athletes. “It’s interesting that this…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Fargo organization is worried about how several bills in the North Dakota legislature will affect the LGBTQ community. “I just know North Dakota is better than what these bills make North Dakota look like,” Project RAI Member Kristin Nelson said. Co-founders of Project Rainbows Are Inclusive Kristin Nelson and Devon Dolney believe it was only…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR) – The North Dakota Senate has failed to override Governor Doug Burgum’s veto of a bill restricting transgender girls from participating in public elementary and secondary school sports. The vote was 28 to 19. Thirty two votes were needed to override the veto. Earlier, the state House voted 68 to 25 to override the second-term Republican governor,…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR/KCND) – A bill to require North Dakota public grade school and high school athletes to compete in sports according to their birth gender is on its way to Gov. Doug Burgum’s desk. Grand Forks Democratic Sen. JoNell Bakke said the measure is meant to address a problem that doesn’t exist. “We are interfering in a personal issue…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR/KCND) – The North Dakota House has passed an amended version of a bill that would require grade school and high school athletes to compete in sports according to their birth gender. That’s how the House originally passed HB 1298. The Senate made it into a study. But in conference committee, the House language was added back, and…
BISMARCK, N.D. (KVRR/KCND) – A North Dakota Senate committee is studying a bill that would restrict transgender high school student athletes from participating on high school teams that are exclusively for the opposite sex. The legislation has already passed in the House. Supporters say the bill would ensure fair competition for girls’ sports by not allowing a transgender male from…
BISMARCK, N.D. – Critics of legislation that addresses gender in school sports say the proposal discriminates against transgender students in North Dakota. The bill would prohibit public schools from allowing a person to participate on a girls or boys team if the person “was assigned the opposite sex at birth.” Republican Rep. Ben Koppelman of West Fargo says the bill…
