South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem Calls for Drag, Pronoun Ban at Colleges

Republican Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota has called on the state’s Board of Regents — the group that supervises the state’s higher education institutions — to ban drag shows from campuses and remove selected pronouns from college and university materials. In a letter she sent to the board and posted online on Thursday, she said that states have “allowed liberal ideologies to poison their universities and colleges.” She added that these institutions that were “once a hotbed of ideological diversity, debate, and the pursuit of truth and discovery” have...