Des Moines, Iowa – amid the presence of heavy police and hundreds of voice demonstrators, legislators in Iowa considered on Thursday an unprecedented draft law Striving Based on sexual identity, opponents say opponents say that transgender people have been transcribed in many areas of life.
The House of Representatives and the Senate were expected to vote on the legislation on Thursday, on the same day that the Georgia Council retracted the removal of sexual protection from the state. Hate Crime LawThat passed in 2020 after death Ahmaud Arbery.
Iowa’s draft law, which was first presented last week, raced during the legislative process, despite opposition from LGBTQ defenders who gathered in the Capitol on Monday and Tuesday.
On Thursday, the opponents of the draft law submitted to the Capitol Rotonda with the signs and flags of the rainbow to gather before, during and after a 90 -minute hearing, they scream, “No hatred in our state!” There was a heavy presence of the police, where state soldiers were stationed throughout the Rotonda Hall and hearing.
Of the 167 people who registered to testify at the plenary session in front of the House of Representatives Committee, all of them opposed except 24 the bill. Every time the person speaking opens the door of the hearing room to leave, the protesters’ roar abroad fill the room, forcing a repeated temporary.
To avoid delay, the state forces prevented the entrance outside the room, and created a “natural insulation”, said the Ministry of Public Safety Commissioner Stephen Pines. Pinns said this step was aiming to allow the public session to move forward while protecting the rights of the first amendment of demonstrations.
In Iowa, the sexual identity was added to the Civil Rights Law in 2007 when Democrats took control of the legislative body. Logan Casey, director of policy research on the movement’s progress project, said if it is removed.
In Georgia, changes in the Hate Crime Law were proposed to a draft law Restricting sports participation For transgender students. This is something from the sporting schools in the state Now through politics But Republican leaders insist that he need to be in the law and also apply to colleges and universities.
The Georgia Parliament Committee re -written the bill at the last minute on Wednesday to leave the word “sex” in the state of hate crimes law after the Democrats warned against removing the word that may end additional penalties for the crimes stimulated by bias against transgender people.
The Iowa State Law will remove the sexual identity as a protected class and explicitly define females and males, as well as sex, which will be considered synonymous with sex and “is not considered synonym or a brief expression of sexual identity, or with experience between gender, gender expression, or gender role.”
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Supporters of change say that the current code has written the idea that people can move to another sex and gave women transgender women to spaces such as bathrooms, tank rooms and sports teams that should be protected for people who have been appointed female at birth.
Republicans in Iowa say that their changes aim to enhance the state’s ban on sports participation Public bathroom Access for sexually transformed students. If it is approved, the bill will go to the Republican ruler Kim Reynolds, who signed these policies in the law. A Reynolds spokeswoman refused to comment on whether to sign the bill.
V Fixmer-Araiz, the provincial supervisor in the East Johnson Province, was the first to testify against the bill. They told Transpan, they have already faced their “fair share of discrimination” and worried that the draft law will offer Transpans more.
“Isn’t the government’s role to confirm instead of denying citizens committed to the law for their inalienable rights?” Fixmer-Araiz said. “The people of Iowa deserve the best.”
Among those who speak to support the draft law, Chefy Fellhart was from the Dallas Center, who said that she supports as a woman and a mother, a “defender of women’s rights” and a person “believes in the truth of God’s creation.”
“Identity does not change biology,” said Flockhart.
About half of the United States includes sexual identity in the Civil Rights Law to protect against discrimination in housing and public places, such as stores or restaurants, according to the Movement Advancement project, the LGBTQ+Research Center. Some additional countries do not explicitly protect from this distinction, but are included in the legal interpretations of laws.
The Supreme Court of Iowa Refuse The argument that sex -based discrimination includes sexual identity discrimination.
Many of the legislative bodies led by the Republic are also Click on the age of more laws This year, the creation of legal definitions for males and females based on the reproductive organs at birth after that Executive From President Donald Trump.
Trump also signed the basis laying orders to ban sexually transformed persons from military service And preserving girls and women transgendering from girls and women Sports competitionsAmong other things. Most of the policies are running Challenge.
The Associated Press Jeff Amy in Atlanta contributed to this report.
