Senate Bill 46 is not about leveling the playing field for student athletes. It’s about erasing and excluding trans people from participation in all aspects of public life.

Senate Bill 46 attempts to solve a problem that does not exist while slamming the door shut for transgender student athletes to fully participate in their school communities.

The ACLU of South Dakota will be monitoring a wide variety of bills and will focus on three main issue areas: abortion access and reproductive freedom, defending free speech and opposing classroom censorship, and LGBTQ+ and Two Spirit equality.

With serious issues like education funding, workforce housing, childcare, criminal justice reform, and tenuous state-tribal relations, it’s disturbing that some legislators keep coming back to the same discriminatory issues year after year.

Whether you’re for a specific bill or against it, there’s plenty of work to do, calls to make, letters to write, legislative coffees and cracker barrels to attend.

Gov. Noem's draft legislation violates both the United States Constitution and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, which protects all students – including those who are transgender – from discrimination based on sex.

ACLU is asking people to sign the Pride Pledge and commit to fighting for proactive and sustainable change in the state every day.

Nobody wins when we try to codify discrimination like this. We’re thrilled with the decision by South Dakota lawmakers to kill this bill.

House Bill 1217, legislation that would ban women and girls from playing on sports teams that match their gender identity, violates both the United States Constitution and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act.