The bill would require transgender people to be identified on birth certificates, a measure some compare to \u2018pink triangles\u2019<\/p>\n
On Tuesday afternoon, the Iowa house education committee met to debate House Study Bill 649<\/a>, a bill proposed by the Republican governor, Kim Reynolds. The bill, as drafted, would end legal recognition for transgender people anywhere \u201cmale\u201d and \u201cfemale\u201d appear in Iowa code and would require special gender markers for transgender people on birth certificates, measures that were compared to \u201cpink triangles\u201d once used to identify LGBTQ+ people<\/a> by Nazis in the 1940s. Perhaps the most ambitious attempt to discriminate against transgender people in the proposed legislation, however, is through redefining the word \u201cequal\u201d in the bill.<\/p>\n The bill states that when it comes to transgender people, \u201cThe term \u2018equal\u2019 does not mean \u2018same\u2019 or \u2018identical\u2019,\u201d which raises the question: what does \u201cequal\u201d even mean? The bill does not define the word, only declares that \u201cequal\u201d no longer means \u201csame\u201d or \u201cidentical\u201d within the state of Iowa for transgender people. When the sponsor was asked directly what the word \u201cequal\u201d means in this bill, the representative Heather Hora answered: \u201cEqual would mean \u2026 um \u2026 I would assume that equal would mean \u2026 I don\u2019t know exactly in this context.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The bill would require transgender people to be identified on birth certificates, a measure some compare to \u2018pink triangles\u2019 On Tuesday afternoon, the Iowa house education committee met to debate House Study Bill 649, a bill proposed by the Republican governor, Kim Reynolds. The bill, as drafted, would end legal recognition for transgender people anywhere … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}