Iowa is set to become the first state to roll back previously passed civil rights protections based on “gender identity.”
On Thursday, Iowa legislators passed the bill along the party's line to remove gender identities from the list of people specifically protected from “discrimination” in the state's civil rights law. Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds has indicated that he will sign the bill.
Republican state representative Stephen C. Holt, sponsoring the bill, argued that the inclusion of transgenderism in civil rights law is illegal because transgenderism is based on “feeling” rather than “unchanging truth,” and the law enshrining it is the rights of women, Washington Post It has been reported.
“All Iowa deserves protection of civil rights and be treated with dignity and respect, including women,” Holt said.
Democrats and transgender activists attacked the bill as “disgrace” and “discrimination.”
Democrat Beth Wessel Crochelle Schlily attacked the bill. The bill creates a caste system in which one group of Iowa trans citizens do not have the same rights. ”
To her, Democrat Am Whittendahl, a transgender figure, called the bill “personally devastating,” claiming it had created a “hollow lie” from the state's motto “our freedom and the right to maintain our rights.”
Wichtendahl also accused Republicans of stealing “humanity” from trans people.
Yet despite being narrowed down by Democrats, the state's Supreme Court has already undermined transgenderism by finding that gender-based discrimination does not include gender identity.
Democrats added gender identity to Iowa's 1965 Civil Rights Act in 2007, when they controlled the state legislature and the governor's office. They also passed the law along the party lines of the time.
As the bill was being debated at the state capitol in Des Moines, thousands of radical transgender supporters flooded the Capitol buildings with loud protests in support of defeating the measure.
The new law removes gender identity as a protected class, defines gender as a biologically determined, and defines “synonyms or shorthand for gender identity, experienced gender, gender, or gender roles.”
The bill is now going to the governor's desk.
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