{"id":10152,"date":"2024-04-04T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10152"},"modified":"2024-04-12T06:41:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T06:41:02","slug":"gov-evers-vetoes-protecting-womens-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10152","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Evers Vetoes Protecting Women\u2019s Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/gov-evers-vetoes-protecting-womens-sports\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/gov-evers-vetoes-protecting-womens-sports\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Governor Evers vetoed a bill that would have prohibited biological males from participating in girls\u2019 sports in Wisconsin\u2019s K-12 public schools and schools participating in the voucher program. In his veto message, Evers said, quote, \u201cI am vetoing this bill\u2026because I object to codifying discrimination into state statute and to the\u2026Legislature&#8217;s ongoing efforts to perpetuate hateful and discriminatory rhetoric and policies targeting LGBTQ Wisconsinites, including our transgender and gender-nonconforming kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This veto is completely in synch with Governor Evers\u2019 worldview and priorities. He is willing to pander to this special interest group rather than ensure female athletes have a fair playing field and opportunities. He\u2019s also compromising these athletes\u2019 safety and privacy. A great reminder that elections have consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/gov-evers-vetoes-protecting-womens-sports\/ Earlier this week, Governor Evers vetoed a bill that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10153,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10152\/revisions\/10153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}