The legislators from Iów voted in favor of removing the protection of sexual identity against the Code of Civil Rights of the State on Thursday despite huge protests by opponents who claim that this may be exposed to transgender people to discrimination in many areas of life.
The agent ran through the legislative process after the first introduction last week. The State Senate was to first approve the act on Thursday, and then the house less than an hour later.
Hundreds of supporters of 2SLGBTQ+ on Thursday to Capitol Rotunda, waving the “trance rights are human rights” and charging slogans, including “Lack of hatred in our state!”
There was a hard presence of the police, and the state soldiers were stationed around the rotunda. The opposition to the Act was huge, and 2SLGBTQ+ and their allies appear in crowds to defend human rights of transgender and non-binos. Of the 167 people who enrolled in the testimony on a 90-minute public interrogation before the Committee of the Chamber, all except 24 were against the Act.
Protesters who watched the voice from the Gallery of the House booed loudly and shouted “Shame!” When the chamber was postponed. Many admired representatives of the state of Iowa Steven Holt, who managed the floor and provided fierce defense before it was over.
The Act would remove gender identity as a class protected against the state civil law and clearly described a woman and a man, as well as a sex that from now on would be considered a synonym of sex and “will not be considered a synonym or stenography of sexual identity, experienced sex, sexual expression or sexual role.”
The agent would be the first legislative action to remove non -discrimination based on sexual identity, said Logan Casey, political research director in the movement of the movement, and the Think tank of the right -wing 2SLGBTQ+right.
Supporters of this change claim that the current law codified the idea that people can go to a different sex, which they think is incorrect, and admitted transsexual women access to space, such as bathrooms, cloakrooms and sports teams, which they think should be reserved for people assigned to women at birth.
“Iowa legislation for the future of our children and our culture has interest and solemn responsibility for the unchanging truth,” said Holt.
2SLGBTQ+ person and supporters of human rights claim that there is no justification for removing the protection of civil rights against trans persons and non -unintenant persons.
“If this bill passes, many basic life needs, which Iowans consider to be something obvious for transformation and access people”, Maz Mowitz, Executive Director of 2SLGBTQ+ Valocacy Group One Iowa Action, He said last month.
“The owners will legally be able to deny them the possibility of paying the apartment, banks will be able to refuse them a car loan, and hotels will be able to reverse them for a reason other than because they are transgender. This bill gives those who want to distinguish between the possibility of placing the thumb on the scales of American sleep. “
Iowa State Rep. Aime Wichtendahl was the last democrat who spoke against the act on Thursday, becoming emotionally when she offered her personal story as a transgender woman, saying: “I went to save my life.”
“The purpose of this account and the purpose of each bill of the Anti-Trans-Trans Act is to further remove us from public life and the stimulation of our existence,” said Wichtendahl. “The sum of each anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ account is to make our existence illegal.”
“Protection should be … strengthened, not removed”
The legislation now goes to the Republican Governor Kim Reynolds, who supported efforts to limit the protection of sexual identity. REYNolds spokesman refused to comment on whether he would sign the law.
The actions of legislators from Iów appeared on the same day on which Georgia withdrew from removing sex protection against the state law on hate crimes, which was adopted in 2020. The death of Ahmaud Arbery.
The current law regarding civil rights Iowa protects against discrimination based on race, color, confession, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion, national origin or disability status.
Sexual orientation and sexual identity were not originally included in the State Citizens' Rights Act of 1965. They were added by a democratic legislator controlled by a democratic legislator, due to several Republicans in both chambers.
Republicans from Iowa claim that their changes are aimed at strengthening the ban on the state in the field of participation in sport and public access to the bathroom for transgender students, which were signed by Reynolds.
These growing attacks on Trans rights should be a reason for strengthening protection, not removing them, said Sarah Kate Ellis, president and director of Glaad on Wednesday.
“At a time when transgender people are in an unprecedented attack, protection should be enforced and strengthened, not removed to embolden discrimination,” said Ellis in statement.
“The provisions on non -discrimination are of key importance for the protection of our most sensitive and marginalized communities and assurances that no one is treated otherwise because of who they are. This is the call of a red alarm that if they can do it for trans people, all protection of civil rights can be threatened, “said Ellis.
About half of the US countries include gender identity in its Code of Civil Rights in order to protect against discrimination in housing and public places, such as shops or restaurants, in accordance with the traffic movement project. Some additional countries do not clearly protect against such discrimination, but they are included in the legal interpretations of laws.
The Supreme Court in Iów rejected the argument that discrimination based on sex includes discrimination based on sexual identity.
This year, several legislators conducted by Republican are also trying to introduce more provisions, creating legal definitions of men and women based on reproductive organs at birth after the ordinance of US President Donald Trump.
Trump, in the Blitz of Executive Order addressed to trance rights and uninhabited persons, also signed orders submitting the basis for prohibiting transgender people from military service and maintaining, among others, transgender girls and women in sports competitions of girls and women. Most of the rules are questioned in court.