HARRISBURG, Pa. – As part of Friday’s bill-signing frenzy to finalize the 2022-23 state budget, Gov. Tom Wolf vetoed two controversial bills.
He vetoed a bill that would prohibit transgender students from participating on women and girls’ sports teams, as he’d promised to do since the bill was introduced in 2021. He claimed that the House Republicans who sponsored it did so “solely to bully and oppress vulnerable children.”
“I have been crystal clear during my time in office that hate has no place in Pennsylvania, especially discrimination against already marginalized youth representing less than half of 1 percent of Pennsylvania’s population,” Wolf said in a statement. “These members should be ashamed of themselves for proposing and voting on policies that are discriminatory, unnecessary and incredibly harmful.”
