A South Dakota bill that would have banned biological males from participating in female sports died on Monday after it was rejected by South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem. Noem, a Republican, insisted she did not veto the legislation, but the end result appeared to be the same in a standoff with state legislative leaders. Both South Dakota chambers passed House Bill 1217 in recent weeks. The bill is intended to prevent transgender persons from participating on single-sex sports teams, primarily to block males from taking part in women’s sports. Noem on March 19 sent the bill back to the state House, asking for style and form changes. If legislators made the changes, she said, she’d sign it. Among the proposed changes was removing college athletics from the sports teams that would be affected, under pressure from the NCAA. The House on March 29 overwhelmingly rejected all the proposed changes, in a 67-2 …