Posted on 02/28/2025 10:58:10 PM PST by Morgana
Iowa is set to become the first state to roll back previously passed civil rights protections based on “gender identity.”
On Thursday, the legislators at the Iowa state House passed a bill along party lines that would remove gender identity from the list of those specifically protected against “discrimination” in the state’s civil rights act. Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds has signaled that she will sign the bill into law.
The bill’s sponsor, Republican state Representative Steven C. Holt, maintained that including transgenderism in the civil rights act was illegitimate because transgenderism is based on “feelings” not on “immutable truth,” and enshrining it law undermines women’s rights, the Washington Post reported.
“Every Iowan deserves to have their civil rights protected and to be treated with dignity and respect — and that includes women,” Holt said.
Democrats and transgender activists have attacked the bill as a “disgrace” and “discrimination.”
Democrat Rep. Beth Wessel-Kroeschell shrilly attacked the bill saying, “This bill is about taking away the right to a home, job and education for law-abiding Iowans. This bill creates a caste system where one group of people, Iowa trans citizens, do not have the same rights.”
For her part, Democrat Rep. Aime Wichtendahl, who is a transgender person, called the bill “devastating personally,” and insisted it made “a hollow lie” out of the state’s motto, “Our liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain.”
Wichtendahl also accused Republicans of taking away the “humanity” of trans people.
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So taking away the rights of something that doesn’t exist is...wrong?
If they strip elves and leprechauns of their rights, then this has gone too far. :)
Is this the Iowa that had broken for Kamala?
Human rights covers everyone.
No one has less than anyone else, no one needs more than anyone else.
Be still my heart. Can this be true?
President Trump won Iowa in all three elections, 2016 about 51%, 2020 about 53% and 2024 55.7%. His percentage total in 2024 was the highest Iowa win since Richard Nixon in 1972. Iowa did vote for Obama twice, so temporary insanity has been known to be a problem there. FYI, I grew up and graduated high school in Iowa.
Iowa’s governor signs a bill removing gender identity protections from the state’s civil rights code
“ Is this the Iowa that had broken for Kamala?”
Uh no.
Cmon man .
A fake poll showed her ahead.
Iowa went for Trump by 13 points
As of July 1, Iowa’s civil rights law will protect against discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, religion, national origin or disability status.
What about the girls and women hurt by these trans people. Don’t they have rights?
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