Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has a veto pen and she’s not afraid to use it. Among 13 bills Hobbs vetoed last week was a Republican bill that would have allowed discrimination against transgender people. https://twitter.com/ArizonaMirror/status/1780635023647109241 From the Arizona Mirror:
Republicans responded with obvious outrage to Hobbs’ veto of their “Arizona Women’s Bill of Rights,” which would have eliminated any mention of gender in state law, replacing it with a strict and inflexible definition of biological sex.
The bill would have called for the separation of sports teams, locker rooms, bathrooms and even domestic violence shelters and sexual assault crisis centers by biological sex, not gender identity, green-lighting discrimination against transgender Arizonans.
“As I have said time and again, I will not sign legislation that attacks Arizonans,” Hobbs wrote in a brief letter explaining why she vetoed Senate Bill 1628.
Hobbs also vetoed a bill that would have allowed teachers to post the Ten Commandments in their classrooms. Hobbs has vetoed 42 bills this year so far. The governor vetoed a similar anti-trans/bathroom bill last summer. https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1667324564332851201
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