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South Dakota
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Acey D. Morrison, Two-Spirit Person With a “Joyous, Respectful, Loving Soul,” Killed in South Dakota
HRC mourns the killing of Acey Morrison, a 30-year-old Two-Spirit person, who was killed in Rapid City, South Dakota on August 21, 2022. Acey’s death marks, according to HRC’s recordkeeping,…
BREAKING: South Dakota Governor Signs Curriculum Censorship Bill
Bill will erase and marginalize Indigenous, LGBTQ+, and other oppressed voices in and outside of the classroom
South Dakota State Legislature Sends Curriculum Censorship Bill to Governor’s Desk for Signature
Pierre, South Dakota – Yesterday, the South Dakota Senate passed House Bill 1012, a curriculum censorship bill that was authored and submitted to the legislature by South Dakota Governor Kristi…
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem Signs Anti-Trans Sports Bill into Law
SB 46 Bans Transgender Kids from Participating in Sports Consistent With Gender Identity
South Dakota Advances First Anti-Trans Bill of 2022 to Governor’s Desk as Noem’s Chief of Staff Likens Transgender Kids to Terrorists
House Passes SB 46 to Ban Trans Sports Participation Consistent With Gender Identity and HB 1005, an Anti-Transgender Locker Room Bill
South Dakota Senate Becomes First Chamber To Pass Anti-Trans Legislation In 2022
Today, the South Dakota Senate passed an anti-transgender sports ban bill, South Dakota Senate Bill 46, becoming the first chamber in the 2022 state legislative session to advance discriminatory anti-transgender…
BREAKING: Gov. Noem Signs Anti-LGBTQ Executive Orders as Trans Sports Ban Fails in South Dakota
SOUTH DAKOTA — This afternoon, immediately following the South Dakota’s legislature’s decision to kill Gov. Kristi Noem’s style-and-form veto of HB 1217, the anti-transgender sports ban bill that she had…
BREAKING: South Dakota Rejects Gov. Noem’s Changes, Kills Anti-Trans Sports Bill
SOUTH DAKOTA — Today, the South Dakota legislature voted to kill the changes made by South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem’s style-and-form veto of HB 1217, the anti-transgender sports ban bill…
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem Signs Religious Refusal Bill, Creating First Major RFRA Law In Six Years
On Wednesday evening, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem signed Senate Bill 124, a religious refusal bill that could grant a license to discriminate against LGBTQ people across a wide range…
South Dakota Sends Religious Refusal Bill to Gov. Noem, First Major RFRA Threat In 6 Years
Last night, the South Dakota Senate passed Senate Bill 124, a religious refusal bill that would grant a license to discriminate against LGBTQ people across a wide range of goods…
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