Indiana trans athlete bill to become law after GOP overrides veto; ACLU sues

May 25, 2022 View Original Article
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    -2% Center

  • Reliability

    90% ReliableExcellent

  • Policy Leaning

    32% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    78% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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"Democrats had called for lawmakers to take action, instead, on a proposal to suspend the state's 56 cents per gallon in taxes on gasoline amid the nationwide spike in fuel prices."
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-18% Liberal
"Holcomb said in his veto message the bill presumed there is an existing problem in K-12 sports in Indiana that requires further state government intervention but that he found no evidence to support that claim even if I support the effort overall."
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-32% Liberal
"State senators voted 32-15 in favor of overriding Gov. Eric Holcomb following the same action in a 67-28 vote by the House earlier in the day."
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6% Conservative
"In his veto letter, Holcomb pointed to the Indiana High School Athletic Association, which has a policy covering transgender students wanting to play sports that match their gender identity and has said it has had no transgender girls finalize a request to play on a female team."
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-6% Liberal
"Holcomb had said in his veto message that bill did not provide a consistent policy for what he called fairness in K-12 sports when he unexpectedly vetoed it in March."
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-26% Liberal
"Holcomb said in his veto message the bill presumed there is an existing problem in K-12 sports in Indiana that requires further state government intervention but that he found no evidence to support that claim even if I support the effort overall."
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-18% Liberal
"Holcomb's veto came a day before Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox vetoed a similar ban on grounds that such laws target vulnerable children who are already at high risk of suicide."
Negative
-54% Liberal
"Holcomb's veto came a day before Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox vetoed a similar ban on grounds that such laws target vulnerable children who are already at high risk of suicide."
Negative
-54% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : Democrats had called for lawmakers to take action, instead, on a proposal to suspend the state's 56 cents per gallon in taxes on gasoline amid the nationwide spike in fuel prices.
34% : Holcomb said in his veto message the bill presumed "there is an existing problem in K-12 sports in Indiana that requires further state government intervention" but that he found no evidence to support that claim "even if I support the effort overall."

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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