Kristi Noem’s Office Grovels After Losing Lawsuit to Trans Advocacy Group

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Kristi Noem's Office Grovels After Losing Lawsuit to Trans Advocacy Group

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Story by Michael Daly (5 Feb 2024)

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem personally killed a 2022 state contract with a transgender advocacy group the minute she heard about it.

"South Dakota does not support this organization's efforts, and state government should not be participating in them," she told the press of The Transformation Project.

Veteran attorney Brendan Johnson, who represented the Transformation Project, told The Daily Beast on Monday that apology letters as a part of litigation are "very unusual."

"But we demanded that as part of the settlement," Johnson said

South Dakota was further required to pay the group $300,000, more than double what the state had originally agreed to pay towards Fonder's work. The Transformation Project had originally requested a grant of only $45,907. The state advised the group to put in for $136,000.

But that was before a query from right-wing publication The Daily Caller made Noem aware of the program. The allocation immediately dropped to nothing at all.

But Noem's words and actions were so nakedly unconstitutional that the Transmission Project was able to cite them as evidence of discrimination. The result was a lawsuit so strong that The Transformation Project was able to secure the written apology.