Articles Tagged: LGBTQ

AEAs, gender ID, school safety and many other significant bills need more legislative attention this week to survive a legislative deadline.

From Gazette columnist Althea Cole: Leading trans health authority trades science for politics while ignoring severity of potential complications from treatment.

A bill Republicans say will strengthen protections for religious expressions in Iowa that Democrats contend would give legal cover to discriminate against LGTBQ Iowans and others is headed to Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ desk.

Defendants lose their marbles, but not their (entire) court case

Also, bill advances to limit ‘obscene performances’

A three-member House panel voted 2-1 Tuesday to advance a bill that would define “man” and “woman” in state law. The bill was amended Tuesday to eliminate a requirement that transgender Iowans note both their pre- and post-transition genders on their driver’s license. However, both genders would still be noted on birth certificates.

On an organized day of LGBTQ advocacy at the Iowa Capitol, Iowa House Republicans advanced a bill that would prohibit teachers from being punished for refusing to use a student’s preferred pronouns.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds filed a bill Thursday that would define “man” and “woman” in Iowa Code. It came one day after transgender Iowans and LGBTQ and civil rights advocates and allies flocked to the Capitol to protest a bill that would have changed the way transgender Iowans are protected under the Civil Rights Act.

All three members of a House Judiciary subcommittee said they will not sign off on moving the bill forward, following roughly an hour of testimony from transgender Iowans, school safety advocates, attorneys and civil rights activists.

The proposed legislation, which opponents called ‘hateful’ and ‘horrible,’ also would add gender dysphoria to a list of disabilities covered by the Civil Rights Act.

Conversion therapy, the practice of attempting to convince gay people to become heterosexual, is widely discredited and opposed by medical and psychiatric organizations

Just before the new year, a federal judge in Iowa temporarily enjoined the implementation of parts of Senate File 496, …

State coalition brings new focus amid anti-LGBTQ legislation

Hiawatha City Council member Aime Wichtendahl, a Democrat, and Cedar Rapids veteran John Thompson, a Republican, have filed to run for the seat that will be vacated by Rep. Art Staed.

My sense of memory is freakishly above average. I can rattle off my debit card number, driver’s license number, and …