Human Rights Watch says South Dakota is leading a nationwide surge of irrational anti-transgender legislation with House Bill 1008, Rep. Fred Deutsch’s (R-5/Watertown) paranoid potty bill. Ryan Thoreson…
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The Lack of Legislative Leadership Award for the day goes to Senator Deb Soholt (R-14/Sioux Falls). As chair of Senate Education, she cast the deciding vote this…
Sioux Falls sports broadcaster Jeff Thurn steps into the political arena with an editorial calling House Bill 1008, Rep. Fred Deutsch’s potty/locker room bill, an unnecessary political…
Rep. Fred Deutsch’s paranoid potty bill bullies transgender kids. It will also prevent Fred from taking a whiz at next year’s Watertown HS basketball games. House Bill 1008 seeks…
In other efforts to hang the “Different People Not Welcome” sign on South Dakota, the South Dakota Legislature continued its war on transgender kids this week.…
Rep. Fred Deutsch’s potty bill is still a paranoid monstrosity, but at least it won’t cost the state as much. House Bill 1008 survived its first hearing…
The American Civil Liberties Union is expanding its work capacity in South Dakota. The Sioux Falls-baed civil liberties fighters have added Stacey Burnette as administrative coordinator,…
When Rep. Fred Deutsch (R-4/Florence) first floated his potty bill last month, I noted the principles behind Rep. Deutsch’s urgent need to ban transgender students from the…