Hundreds of Transgender, Queer, and allies amassed at the Capitol to protest a bill that would remove rights guaranteed by the Iowa Bill of Rights.
Iowa GOP introduced House Study Bill 242 on Thursday, and it had already passed through committee by Monday. The GOP had hoped that the speed at which the bill moved would blindside the LGBTQI community and preclude large demonstrations. However, they were wrong.
If the GOP is successful it would be the first time in the history of our nation that rights had been stripped from a protected class.
Amber Williams who works for Inspired Life, a hard-right Christian organization, recounted seeing a transgender woman in a women’s restroom two weeks ago. This made her so uncomfortable, she said, that she left the restroom without using it giving that reason as to why she was testifying for the removal of transgender people from housing, workplace, credit, public accommodations, and education all covered for the past two decades by the Iowa Civil Rights Act.
“This isn't about hatred or exclusion," she told lawmakers. It's about a white Christian woman's comfort level.
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