Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) vetoed a slew of bills this week aimed at limiting the rights of LGBTQ people, including one targeting transgender children and their use of locker room facilities at schools throughout the state.

Senate Bill 1182 sought to ban trans students from using showers in school locker rooms that correspond to their gender. Instead, schools would have to provide separate private showers to those who were unwilling to use facilities matching the sex they were assigned at birth, the proposal stated.

In a two-sentence veto letter to the Republican-led state legislature, Hobbs explained why she was blocking the bill from becoming law.

“Today, I vetoed Senate Bill 1182. As I have said time and time again, I will not sign legislation that attacks Arizonans,” Hobbs wrote.

Republicans blasted Hobbs’s decision to veto the bill, arguing that the move symbolized a “war against women and girls,” a false talking point commonly utilized by anti-transgender voices. Studies have shown, however, that anti-trans restrictions

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