This is so incredibly evil because it’s nothing but a license to discriminate against trans people for being trans. I mean, let’s be for fucking real here: they took time to write and pass a law that specifically targets 0.29% of its own population.
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The New York Times
Iowa’s Republican governor signed into law on Friday a measure that ends state civil rights protections for transgender people, a move that LGBTQ rights advocates said made the state the first to eliminate such broad and specific protections for transgender people.
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“She said that she believed the new law ‘safeguards the rights of women and girls.’”
I’m really gonna need someone to explain to me, like I’m 5, how allowing employers, businesses, and landlords to discriminate against trans people somehow protects women’s rights?