A hed in The Des Moines Register:
Urbandale school board refuses to remove gender identity protection despite new Iowa law
This is sloppy and dangerous.
There is no law requiring Iowa’s cities, counties or school districts to remove gender identity protections in the same way the State of Iowa did when we became the first state in the nation to remove civil rights protections from a previously protected class. Doing so is pre-compliance.
It’s dangerous because plenty of entities were confused and removed protections anyway before restoring them, including the Iowa City Community School District, the City of Dubuque and the Dubuque School District, and this framing only reinforces this misconception.