South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem signed two executive orders (pdf) (pdf) Monday evening to limit participants in female sports to biological females. This comes after the state legislature failed to make proposed revisions to the bill that would have stopped transgender females from competing in girls and women’s sports. “Only girls should play girls’ sports. Given the legislature’s failure to accept my proposed revisions to HB 1217, I am immediately signing two executive orders to address this issue: one to protect fairness in K-12 athletics, and another to do so in college athletics,” wrote Noem on Monday. When HB 1217 was returned to the legislature for revisions, The American Civil Liberties Union of South Dakota criticized the state legislature’s efforts to ban transgender females from playing in women’s sports. “House Bill 1217 has never been about leveling the playing field for student athletes,” said ACLU of South Dakota advocacy manager …