Iowa is all in for transgender discrimination.
Iowa is saying it’s okay to discriminate against transgender people as it became the first US state to remove gender identity protections from its civil rights code. Signed by extreme right-wing governor Kim Reynolds, the law removes gender identity as a protected class in the Iowa Civil Rights Act.
a bill, which goes into effect on July 1.
Openly targeting transgender people, the bill states that gender “shall not be considered a synonym or shorthand expression for gender identity, experienced gender, gender expression, or gender role.”
Iowa House and Senate, predominantly peopled by extreme right-wing Republican politicians, voted in favor of the legislation.
In a video posted on social media, Reynolds justified her signature on the bill, claiming that while this is a “sensitive issue for some”, it is “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.”
Typical of many of America’s anti-science Republican politicians, Reynolds is mum on sex variations, i.e. the fallacy of the binary in biology.
Gender identity was originally added to Iowa’s Civil Rights Act of 1965 in 2007. The newly-signed law, therefore, ends 18 years of protection against discrimination based on gender identity in Iowa’s civil rights law.
