Equal Rights vs. Special Rights

Removing "gender identity" from Iowa's Civil Rights Act does not infringe on the constitutional rights of Iowans who identify as transgender.

Last Friday, Gov. Kim Reynolds signed SF 418 into law that removed “gender identity” from Iowa’s Civil Rights Act. The Iowa Legislature added sexual orientation and gender identity to the protected classes in Iowa’s Civil Rights Act in 2007, two years before the Iowa Supreme Court’s decision in Varnum v. Brien that made Iowa the third state to legalize …