The Iowa Senate Education Committee is set up to fast track HF2416 and SF2342, bans that would exclude transgender girls from participating in school sports programs. The bill has already cleared the House and will Read more…
The Iowa House Education Committee is set up to fast track HF2309, a ban that would exclude transgender girls from participating in school sports programs. The bill will be debated in subcommittee early in the Read more…
The Senate has placed a bill on its debate calendar for February 9th that would restrict access to classic pieces of literature as well as cause several additional problems for LGBTQ youth. SF2205, a bill Read more…
January 13, 2022 Contact: Keenan Crow Director of Policy and Advocacy Mobile: (712) 389-1924 Email: keenan@oneiowa.org [Des Moines]— With the introduction of SF 2024 and SF 2025 the Iowa legislature has hit a new record Read more…
[Des Moines]— Last night in a Fox News Town Hall, Governor Kim Reynolds announced that the Iowa Legislature was working on a proposal to ban transgender youth participation in athletics and that she believed it Read more…
Today, September 14, LGBTQ advocacy organization One Iowa Action announced its state legislative endorsements for the 2020 election. During the 2020 legislative session, the Iowa legislature released 14 anti-LGBTQ bills. The focus of these bills ranged Read more…
Today, February 6th, Senator Dennis Guth (R-Klemme) released both SF2193 and SF2194, bills that would create sweeping exemptions to the Iowa Civil Rights Act and undermine virtually every protection for LGBTQ Iowans. Discrimination allowed against Read more…
Today, January 31, three anti-LGBTQ bills were released in the Iowa legislature. HF2201 would restrict educators from discussing sexual orientation and gender identity, HF2202 would allow discrimination against transgender athletes in Iowa school athletics programs, Read more…
[Des Moines]—Today, January 29, Iowa State Representatives Dean Fisher, Anne Osmundson, Terry Baxter, Tedd Gassman, Thomas Gerhold, Phil Thompson, Tom Jeneary, Skyler Wheeler, and Sandy Salmon released HF 2164, a bill which seeks to repeal Read more…
One Iowa Action, a statewide LGBTQ advocacy organization, will host a Rally for Trans Health Justice on Sunday, June 2 from 1-3 p.m. on the Iowa State Capitol grounds. Friday, May 3, Gov. Kim Reynolds Read more…