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Bill which removes gender identity from Iowa civil rights law passed by state legislature today (www.desmoinesregister.com)

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

... but like, if I am discriminated against because my gender expression is different from my assigned sex, then even if my gender identity isn't protected that's still discrimination based on sex and that should still be protected.

I won't hold by breath, but like???

[–] Tower@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

Spot on. This was essentially exactly the same reasoning that Justice Gorsuch used when writing the opinion (Roberts and the three Democrats joining) in the discrimination case Bostock v. Clayton County

An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex. Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids. Those who adopted the Civil Rights Act might not have anticipated their work would lead to this particular result. But the limits of the drafters' imagination supply no reason to ignore the law's demands. Only the written word is the law, and all persons are entitled to its benefit.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bostock_v._Clayton_County#%3A%7E%3Atext=Gorsuch+wrote%3A%2Cexactly+what+Title+VII+forbids.