South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster on Monday signed a bill into law banning transgender students from playing in gender-based sports teams at schools and colleges, saying it was common sense that “boys should play boys sports and girls should play girls sports.”
“The Save Women’s Sports Act is now the law of the land in South Carolina,” he wrote on Twitter on May 17. “We have to do everything we can to protect the young men and women in our state who choose to pursue athletic competition, and that’s why I proudly signed this bill into law yesterday.”
South Carolina’s governor quietly signed the bill without ceremony, joining a dozen other mostly conservative states that passed similar laws in the last couple of years….