Gov. vetoed a number of Republican charges, including those that may have allowed discrimination against trans people and given public school teachers a green light to publish the Ten Commandments in their rooms. Katie Hobbs on Tuesday.
Hobbs vetoed 13 bills, bringing her total for the year to 42. She has made it clear that she will use her veto power on any bills that don’t have bipartisan support, especially ones that discriminate against the LGBTQ community.
Democrats reacted with a clear outburst to Hobbs’ veto of their state’s “Arizona Women’s Bill of Rights,” which would have substituted for a tight and inflexible description of natural intercourse with any mention of sex in state law. The bill would have authorized the use of biological sex, not gender identity, to legalize prejudice against transgender Arizonans by allowing them to play sports groups, locker rooms, bathrooms, and even domestic violence homes and sexual abuse issue centers.
In a simple letter outlining why she vetoed Senate Bill 1628, Hobbs stated, “I did not sign regulations that attack Arizonans, as I have repeatedly stated.
The Arizona Senate Republicans accused them of only pretending to be a sex diverse than they were born into when their response to the filibuster was full of unfair language about trans people.
Senate Republicans wrote in a declaration that the extreme left is trying to make community believe that natural males can be considered women if they “feel” like they are, and that the Arizona State Legislature is killing the Arizona Women’s Bill of Rights.
The Democrats who opposed the costs continued to criticize the Senate Republicans of endangering people.
Democrats are only perpetuating the dysfunction by pretending that biological sex doesn’t matter, according to Senate President Warren Petersen in the statement. “Our girls, grandchildren, sisters, and neighbors are growing up in a dangerous period where they are living with an increased risk of being victimized in open rooms, showers, and locker rooms because Democrats are now welcoming biological males into what used to be traditionally healthy, single-sex spaces.”
However, trans activists claim that there is no evidence that transgender people can use the bathrooms in ways that make them less secure for everyone else who uses them, as at least one study has found.
In the speech, the bill’s partner, Sen. Sine Kerr, R-Buckeye, claimed that the costs would have stopped transgender women from competing in female sports, something she said gives them an unfair advantage. However, when Republican governor in 2022 passed a rule to do so, Republicans now did so. Despite two trans athletes filing a judge challenge, Doug Ducey is still in office despite the fact that the law is not already being enforced.
Republicans rebuffed Senate Bill 1151, which would have allowed educators or officials to post the Ten Commandments in public college rooms, a practice that some Republicans also questioned as probably illegal.
In a speech, the bill’s partner, Sen. Anthony Kern, R-Glendale, accused Hobbs of “abandoning God” with her veto.
By vetoing regulations that would have allowed people schools to include the Ten Commandments in schools, Katie Hobbs is contributing to Arizona’s social decay, Kern said in the speech.
In her reject email, Hobbs said she questioned the validity of the expenses, and even called it unneeded. During conversation of the bill in March, many critics pointed out that posting the Ten Commandments in open school classrooms, tenets of Judeo-Christian religions, might render children whose families practice different religions feel miserable.
“Sadly, Katie Hobbs’ veto is a prime example of Democrats’ efforts to push state-sponsored atheism while robbing Arizona’s children of the opportunity to flourish with a healthy moral compass,” Kern said.
Senate Bill 1097, which would have required candidates for school boards to declare a party affiliation, was another Republican proposal on Hobbs’ veto list. School board races in Arizona are currently nonpartisan.
In her veto letter, Hobbs argued that this bill will further the politicization and division between Arizona’s school district governing boards. The focus should continue to be on making the best decisions for students. “Partisan politics do not belong in Arizona’s schools.”
