Iowa Removes Gender Identity From Civil Rights Code
Also: “Medicaid recipients are no longer covered for gender-affirming surgery or hormone therapy.”
Iowa’s civil rights code no longer covers gender identity, becoming the first state to make the move.
From ABC News:
The law also explicitly defines female and male based on reproductive organs at birth and removes the ability for people to change the sex designation on their birth certificate.
An unprecedented take-back of legal rights after nearly two decades in Iowa code leaves transgender, nonbinary and potentially even intersex Iowans more vulnerable now than they were before. It’s a governing doctrine now widely adopted by President Donald Trump and Republican-led states despite the mainstream medical view that sex and gender are better understood as a spectrum than as an either-or definition.
When Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds signed Iowa’s new law, she said the state’s previous civil rights code “blurred the biological line between the sexes.”
“It’s common sense to acknowledge the obvious biological differences between men and women. In fact, it’s necessary to secure genuine equal protection for women and girls,” she said in a video statement.
I cannot believe we have to do this in 2025. No matter how many pills you pop or surgeries you have…you cannot ever change your sex. You are a male or a female.
The trans community and advocates have pushed for people to leave the state because the world is going to end for them or something.
One lawyer, Ken Wentz, tried to make it sound earth-shattering, and Iowa would turn transgender people into non-people.
Yet…he even admitted:
Ultimately, Wentz says many of the businesses in Iowa his team works with are going the extra mile, ensuring their business is more accommodating to trans workers.
“Just because the Iowa law now says, ‘Gender identity is not a protected characteristic,’ that doesn’t mean that a company can’t take a different approach,“ Wentz said. ”It’s very interesting to hear that they want to make sure that they’re creating a culture in their workforce of acceptance.”
Went thinks it’s very interesting.
I do not find it interesting or shocking that people and employers don’t need a law to treat human beings like human beings.
Maybe if you escape your bubble world, you’ll realize that people just do not care.
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Comments
What does it even mean to be more accommodating to trans people?
Good for Iowa. An ideology that does this to children ranks right up there with the evils in Islam.
Good. People can have whatever delusion they want about themselves. However, they shouldn’t be forcing other people to share those delusions.
If they’d done this ten years ago I’d probably still be living there. Iowa took a hard left turn for a while.
You are more stupid than I ever thought anyone here at LI could ever be. Iowa is more red and hard right than it has ever been in my entire lifetime. I have lived in Iowa for most of my life. Currently Iowa controls the Governor, the Iowa House, the Iowa Senate, every single member of the Iowa Supreme Court, and every single state elected position except for the Auditor. We are solidly pro=Trump. You can’t get any more red. What planet do you live on, grasshopper?
So when the next leftist takes over its back to empowering the sickness that is the norm
stop the funding
make it local
let the pitchforks be revealed
Good for Iowa. Gender identity as a socially construct, as differentiated from sex, is simply not an objective reality that can be verified. Thus it has no place in any sensible law.
I am asking this question solely out of curiosity: What will happen in regards to that incredibly small number of individuals born with some (even if vestigial) organs of both the male and the female reproductive systems? Is that addressed? I am no supporter of allowing sex by choice, and all of this transitioning nonsense annoys me. However, I wonder what provision there is for these people (less than 1% is the estimate I found). As I said, I am just curious. These are the ones for whom I would have sympathy,
and sympathy etc should be expected
but to have laws and customs etc overthrown has left a bad taste/feelings by many who were “live and let live” and then when the lgbtq+ showed what they would be about if given any power……BAM!!! the attack on civilized society was unjustly harsh and many will remember that and use as an excuse/reason to act badly
inotherwords
same ol same ol
slavery started in africa and you see how people act when given a chance for revenge
Edge cases raise interesting legal questions certainly, but shouldn’t be what make the law.
Apparently with 5α-Reductase 2 deficiency, sex differentiation fails to proceed correctly resulting in the likes of the Guevedoces of the Dominican Republican – a particular highly inbred area. The issue makes no real difference to genetic females – they’re simply carriers of one or two copies of the error, but ‘boys’ can be born on a spectrum anywhere from unusually reduced male physiology plus other issues, through to presenting as fully female. At the onset of puberty however they grow from girls to men.
They are not trans, they simply have very very delayed sex differentiation i.e. what should have occurred in the womb is instead partially corrected by puberty.
Intersex issues are not trans issues.
The usual treatment is intervention and aid in correcting the issues so that they can be their biological sex.