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CHARLESTON Gov. Jim Justice is used to getting positive national media for his COVID-19 vaccine rollout and his personal income tax plan, but a cable news interview Friday took a different turn thanks to his signing of a bill to prevent transgender girls and women from playing in public school and college sports.
Justice was asked about his appearance Friday morning on “Stephanie Rhule Reports” on MSNBC during his end-of-the-week COVID-19 briefing. Ruhle asked Justice about his signing of House Bill 3293 on Wednesday relating to single-sex participation in interscholastic athletic events.
“The law you just signed banning transgender female athletes from playing in women’s school sports teams, can you name one example of a transgender child trying to get an unfair competitive advantage at a school there in West Virginia,” Rhule asked Justice. “You signed a bill about it.”
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Gov. Jim Justice is grilled by MSNBC host Stephanie Rhule on Friday morning for signing a bill preventing transgender students from playing girls sports. (Screengrab)
CHARLESTON Gov. Jim Justice is used to getting positive national media for his COVID-19 vaccine rollout and his personal income tax plan, but a cable news interview Friday took a different turn thanks to his signing of a bill to prevent transgender girls and women from playing in public school and college sports.
Justice was asked about his appearance Friday morning on “Stephanie Rhule Reports” on MSNBC during his end-of-the-week COVID-19 briefing. Ruhle asked Justice about his signing of House Bill 3293 on Wednesday relating to single-sex participation in interscholastic athletic events.
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“I think there were many people who thought students might only stop out for a term and once they see the situation improving, they might re-enroll or start up in the spring,” Shapiro said. “And that’s clearly not happening. Declines at the four-year and the two-year institutions are larger than they were last term.”
Some groups of students had steeper enrollment decreases than others. Enrollment of students between the ages of 18 and 20, who make up about 40 percent of undergraduates, fell 7.2 percent, a larger drop than any other age group. At community colleges, enrollment by these traditional college-age students plummeted a dramatic 14.6 percent.
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