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Politics
Iowa Republicans want to protect anti-LGBTQ slurs & ban anti-bias training to promote “diversity”
The proposal seeks to carbon copy a Trump-era executive order that similarly sought to ban any form of anti-bias training or implementation of “critical race theory” before a court blocked it.
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News (USA)
Iowa Republicans want to ban teachers from talking about transgender people
Teachers wouldn’t be able to mention that transgender people exist, even if there is a transgender student in the classroom.
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News (USA)
31 anti-transgender bills filed in 20 states as GOP targets schoolchildren nationwide
From school sports to putting doctors in prison for treating trans patients, lawmakers in these states want to make people’s lives harder.
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News (USA)
Iowa bill would criminalize medical treatment of transgender youth because they will “outgrow” it
The bill’s author claims that after puberty, trans youth “will eventually have a gender identity that aligns with their sex.” (Pro tip: That’s not how it works.)
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News (USA)
Anti-LGBTQ white supremacist Rep. Steve King loses primary after 9 terms
The Congressman is so extreme even his Republican colleagues wouldn’t support his blatant racism any longer.
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News (USA)
State cops threw 250 kids out of the Iowa state capitol because trans boys used the restroom
“Your civil rights will be respected but not in that incident.”
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Election 2020
Iowa bill would ban teachers from saying that Pete Buttigieg is gay without notifying parents
The bill’s supporters said that Buttigieg’s identity is a “controversial topic” that parents should have a right to opt their children out of.
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Commentary
The Iowa caucuses may finally start to firm up the Democratic presidential race
For all their flaws, the Iowa caucuses will start to add some clarity to a race that has been amazingly fluid. Or maybe not.
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Election 2020
Iowa poll won’t be released because Pete Buttigieg wasn’t named as a candidate
One day before the Iowa caucus, the CNN/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll is being withheld, due to at least one instance of Buttigieg’s omission.
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News (USA)
Iowa Republicans give up on removing transgender people from state’s civil rights protections
A Republican leader announced that he was killing the proposed bill that would have paved the way for Iowa to stop providing protections and medical care to trans people.