Reynolds signs law ending trans civil rights protections; Iowa 1st state to repeal rights

Earl said:

Reynolds signs law ending trans civil rights protections; Iowa 1st state to repeal rights​

Stephen Gruber-Miller Marissa Payne Sabine Martin
Des Moines Register

Transgender and nonbinary Iowans will no longer be shielded by state law from discrimination in housing, employment, education and more after Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a law Friday removing gender identity as a protected class in the Iowa Civil Rights Act.

The signing makes Iowa the first state in the country to take away civil rights from a group it has previously protected in law.

"It's common sense to acknowledge the obvious biological differences between men and women," Reynolds said in a video posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. "In fact, it's necessary to secure genuine equal protection for women and girls."
www.desmoinesregister.com

Reynolds signs law ending trans civil rights protections; Iowa 1st state to repeal rights

The bill signing by Gov. Kim Reynolds makes Iowa the first state in the country to take away civil rights from a group it has previously protected.
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Damn it, just as I was getting my cause up and running "Civil Rights For The Extreamly Fat" and "More Rights For The Really Short Butt Ugly People With An Annoying Voice," I have about 25 others. What now?
 
AProudLefty said:
You made a dumbass post.
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It's called demonstrating absurdity by being absurd. The great Rush Limbaugh was a big believer in the method. It's a fun way to say 'anyone who thinks that Transgender (mentally ill) people need different or more rights than I do or say a really fat person does or an extremely ugly person does. You get it now? Probably not.
 
Tobytone said:
It's called demonstrating absurdity by being absurd. The great Rush Limbaugh was a big believer in the method. It's a fun way to say 'anyone who thinks that Transgender (mentally ill) people need different or more rights than I do or say a really fat person does or an extremely ugly person does. You get it now? Probably not.
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I got it. Thats why your sarcasm is dumb.

Fat people DO have the right not to be discriminated against.
 
BartenderElite said:
Equal rights is all I care about. I just don't want to see anyone discriminated against.

I get the debates about bathrooms & sports. It's a tough issue - but I generally come down on the side of being more cautious in those areas and considering the rights of all.
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They already have equal rights. They just don't get special rights to force us to accept their delusions as reality, etc.
 
SlaveForChrist said:
They already have equal rights. They just don't get special rights to force us to accept their delusions as reality, etc.
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I'd disagree w/ the characterization of 'delusions.'

Some feel like they are legitimately not the sex/gender that their body reflects. We can call it delusion - but what do you do if you feel that way? They're not "fooling" themselves. They legit don't feel like they're in the right body for how they feel.
 
BartenderElite said:
I'd disagree w/ the characterization of 'delusions.'

Some feel like they are legitimately not the sex/gender that their body reflects. We can call it delusion - but what do you do if you feel that way? They're not "fooling" themselves. They legit don't feel like they're in the right body for how they feel.
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And people with anorexia feel like they are fat. It's a delusion, one that needs mental health treatment, not pats on the back and encouragement and agreements with them that they are indeed fat.

When someone with body integrity dysphoria 'feels like' they should be without limbs or blind, we don't chop their limbs off for them or help them blind themselves, we treat them for the delusion of their mental illness. No matter how much they 'legit don't feel they're in the right body for how they feel'

Same here.
 
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