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(NewsNation) — As immoderate authorities legislatures moved to prohibition transgender athletes from competing against women and girls, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox tried to enactment the brakes connected a 2022 measurement that lawmakers passed successful Salt Lake City.
Cox, a Republican, said helium didn’t reason the thought of regulating schoolhouse athletics but faulted legislators for making important changes astatine the past minute. And successful a highly publicized veto message, helium addressed the plight of transgender youths, whom helium said were not affecting women’s sports successful Utah schools.
At the time, Cox said, determination were 4 transgender athletes playing sports — 1 playing successful girls’ sports — against a backdrop of 75,000 pupil athletes successful Utah. He said the tiny radical represented “four kids who are conscionable trying to find immoderate friends and consciousness similar they are a portion of thing … 4 kids trying to get done each day.”
“Rarely has truthful overmuch fearfulness and choler been directed astatine truthful few. I don’t recognize what they are going done oregon wherefore they consciousness the mode they do. But I privation them to live,” Cox said.
Utah politician has agelong urged 'Disagree Better'
Lawmakers overrode his veto of House Bill 11, but Cox, considered a conservative, mean subordinate of the GOP, received precocious marks from transgender advocates for showing empathy astatine a divisive time. He would aboriginal go 2023-24 seat of the National Governors Association and pushed the message, “Disagree Better.”
“It’s not astir learning however to disagree better, it’s astir remembering however to disagree better,” Cox told NewsNation successful 2023. “Our federation was founded connected this, it was torn isolated successful the 1850s and the 1860s successful a civilian war, and we are headed successful that absorption if we don’t each retrieve what it is that made our state great, and we each commencement acting similar it."
“There’s thing much un-American than hating our chap Americans," added Cox.
The second-term governor’s illustration roseate importantly past week, pursuing the fatal shooting of blimpish activistic Charlie Kirk connected the field of Utah Valley University. Cox was among officials who rapidly labeled it a governmental assassination, though authorities person not laid retired the motives of alleged sniper Tyler Robinson.
Spencer Cox: US indispensable find 'off ramp' from governmental violence
Cox, appearing astatine a bid of quality conferences, condemned Kirk’s execution arsenic an onslaught connected ideology and urged Americans to cull governmental violence.
“At immoderate constituent we person to find an disconnected ramp, oregon other it’s going to get overmuch worse,” helium said.
Over the weekend, Cox told NBC the fishy successful Kirk’s sidesplitting was not cooperating with investigators. Authorities alternatively were aided by accusation from cooperating household members and Robinson’s roommate, whom Cox described arsenic a fellow transitioning from antheral to female, to recognize what happened.
“The wherefore down this, again, we’re each drafting tons of conclusions and however idiosyncratic similar this could beryllium radicalized,” Cox said of Robinson. “And I deliberation that those are important questions for america to inquire and important questions for america to answer.”
Cox has called for the decease punishment successful the case. Formal charges against Robinson are expected Tuesday.
