Iowa is Close to Limiting Transgender Access to Health Care

As always, Republicans hate everyone and only care about themselves. Fuck the lot of them. They cannot stand for anyone to be helped and yet there are a bunch of bible verses - y'know, the book they claim to believe in??? - saying exactly the opposite of how they act. John 15:12; Isaiah 1:17; Deuteronomy 15:7-8; Proverbs 3:27; Mark 12:31 and a ton more. I guess they have their own edited version of the bible.

Iowa is one signature away from enacting a law that would limit transgender people’s access to necessary health care.

The law would allow government entities to opt out of using public insurance dollars, including Medicaid, to pay for any kind of transition-related care. This language was tacked on as an amendment to a health and human services appropriations bill late in the process, LGBTQ rights advocates said, without any committee hearings or public comment process. Lawmakers approved the legislation on Saturday.

Now, it’s up to Gov. Kim Reynolds (R). The governor hasn’t signed the legislation yet, and LGBTQ groups are talking to her staff to convince her not to do so.

Keenan Crow, director of policy and advocacy at One Iowa, an LGBTQ advocacy group, told ThinkProgress that transgender Iowans are waiting for an answer.

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