As soon as she signed the bill there would have been plane loads of trans enrolling at SD colleges and universities and demanding to be on women's teams.
Then the NCAA would have sued them out of existence., and probably gone after the state of SD as well. Noem has a fiduciary responsibility to protect the taxpayers from such lawsuits.
She didn't do anything about HS sports, as far as I know, which would be the more important level, AFAIC.
After I watched Trump get fucked over by the US Justice System, I don't think a pipsqueak state gov would have fared any better when the NCAA lawfare team were dispatched to SD for the duration.
Blame here belongs to the SD legislature who put a legally flawed bill on her desk. Are they trying to muscle her out because she's too popular?
Only way to stop this bullshit is to stop watching college sports. Cold turkey.
There is no legislative or legal remedy possible, at this juncture, in the US. Any institution originally designed to afford proper restitution is comped. Bullshit bills like this are just feeding the lawfare machine.