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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