DES MOINES — The Iowa Civil Rights Act would be changed by removing gender identity as a protected class, and by adding gender dysphoria to disabilities covered by the act, under legislation that will be considered by state lawmakers next week at the Iowa Capitol.
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Just scrap civil rights completely
Don't need it
“First off, it’s insulting,” Scheetz said. “To characterize people who are nonbinary and transgender as having a mental illness, essentially, which is what it does, to say that they're disabled mentally for being themselves, I think is just wrong.”
This is a weird take on things. It wasnt that long ago, when Democrats were all about de-stigmatizing mental illnessss, and yet here they are, stigmatizing a mental illness, by pretending its “insulting” to call a mental illness a mental illness.
Also, these people aren’t simply “being themselves”. They are desperately trying to be something they are not, and will never be,
which is fine, if they want to do that in the privacy of their own home, but they aren’t content to do that. They insist on “including” themselves in places where they aren’t wanted, and they insist that the entire world appease their demands, on everything from preferred neo-pronouns, to breast-feeding support groups.
mental illness = crippled worthless freak
They have nothing better to do for the state and its people than quibble over gender topics?
Tax dollars doing what they seemingly do (or don't do) everywhere.
What does this say about the "givernment" and its "ohfishalls"?
Note that this is in Iowa, not (yet, but heading there) some TOTALLY loony, liberal sh-thole state.
Heaven help us all.
I think Iowa is merely reacting to evolving circumstances.
I mean, 20 years ago it didnt even need to be said that womens sports are for actual women, but apparently that needs to be explained to some people nowadays.
Yup. It's sad, though, that "certain MINORITY interests" have been allowed - nay, enabled - to terrorize, demonize, railroad, neuter and "pussify" seemingly everyone and everything.
IMHO, those interests will continue to push their agendas, and virtue-signallers and "cavers" will continue to virtue-signal and cave, BUT they WILL go too far and when that happens, things will snap like a rubberband with a backlash/reversal that'll go beyond that with which they were "Ok" prior to the "progress" made the past few years.