Earlier this year, the State of South Dakota settled a lawsuit with an LGBT+ advocacy group and issued a formal apology after pulling the group’s funding. Now, the group is putting that money to work.
Jonathan Drake/ReutersSouth Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem personally killed a 2022 state contract with a transgender advocacy group the minute she heard about it.“South Dakota does not support this organization’s efforts, and state government should not be participating in them,” she told the press of The Transformation Project.But Noem left it to a minion to write an apology required by Thursday’s finalized settlement of a federal discrimination lawsuit the group brought in response to the governor’s
South Dakota has issued an apology letter and a $300,000 payment to a transgender advocacy group for the abrupt cancellation of a Department of Health contract in 2022.