While we celebrate freedom and justice for all!Iowa Public RadioBy Katarina SostaricFebruary 28, 2025Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law Friday that removes gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act.The law takes effect July 1 and will end state anti-discrimination protections for transgender people in housing, employment, public accommodations and more.Reynolds said in a video statement that the new law is needed to prevent courts from overturning Iowa’s other laws that restrict transgender rights in school bathrooms and sports teams."These commonsense protections were at risk because before I signed this bill, the civil rights code blurred the biological line between the sexes," she said. "It has also forced Iowa taxpayers to pay for gender reassignment surgeries. And that’s unacceptable to me, and it’s unacceptable to most Iowans."Reynolds said the law is necessary to "strengthen protections for women and girls."
Of the more than 100 bills aimed at LGBTQ+ people in the state, less than 10 were approved by lawmakers this session.Texas TribuneBy Ayden RunnelsJune 11, 2025While largely avoiding the same level of heated pushback of years’ past, Texas lawmakers passed several bills that give LGBTQ+ people in Texas, specifically transgender residents, less opportunity to receive care and maintain their identities in state records.Texas legislators filed over 100 anti-trans bills through the session, some containing provisions that have been shot down in years’ prior while others proposed new restrictions. Less than 10 were ultimately approved by lawmakers.The new bills that are likely to be signed by Gov. Greg Abbott represent a yearslong movement from state conservatives to find new ways to restrict the presence of trans and LGBTQ+ Texans, advocates say. The bills that failed may also be resurrected by lawmakers in future sessions. Here’s what to know.[...]Advocates like Johnathan Gooch, communications director for Equality Texas, say that the Legislature has kept its course on anti-trans legislation for the last few sessions, and that bills that didn’t get picked up by legislators may be at the forefront of future sessions.“We're hearing rhetoric that we've heard for a very long time and just more, more bills, a variety of new ways to narrow the rights of trans people,” Gooch said. “It just doesn't come as a mistake that the number of bills is escalating.”
While we celebrate freedom and liberty for all!
One of the families said they decided to move from Colorado to New Zealand after their 9-year-old trans daughter’s health care was interrupted.NBC NewsBy Jo YurcabaJune 1, 2026Denver parents Brandon and Candace are spending tens of thousands of dollars to move to New Zealand in July. The reason, they said, is to protect their 9-year-old transgender daughter, Chase, from the effects of the Trump administration’s policies and an increasingly hostile climate for trans people in the United States.“You’re taught to believe, or indoctrinated, I suppose, in America that this is the land of the free and promise and all of that, and for my child’s rights to be stripped away for just being herself is gross,” Candace said, adding that she and her family feel like they have “no control over” their future in the United States.
While we celebrate freedom ... well you get the idea. freedom, liberty, and justice for some. but not all. Only if you are politically connected to the correct political party... only if you are White... only if you you are Christian... only if you are Christian in the right denominations. None of this "love they neighbor shit" it is only "fire and brimstone" religions are approved.
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