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Events planned across Iowa to fight anti-LGBTQ bills
You can join five events coming up to protest or learn about the anti-LGBTQ bills proposed in the Iowa Legislature.
Find out about events happening this Sunday in Des Moines, Davenport, Cedar Rapids, and Iowa City.
Also coming up: the online “Urgent Meeting for Iowa Trans* Families,” a chance to focus in on proposals affecting transgender youth and their families. Those bills are the ones likely to make it through this Friday’s “funnel” for committee approval.
One Iowa Action posts tracking page for Republicans’ anti-LGBTQ+ proposals
One Iowa Action has a page tracking 29 bills that include measures considered anti-LGBTQ+ .
The page, an annual service by the lobbying arm of One Iowa, is gaining even more focus this year. Iowa is among 14 states noted by the ACLU as having a record number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills proposed among state legislators.
Here’s a look at the One Iowa Action tracking page, some of the bills it’s tracking, and Iowa’s overall legislative process, including its “funnel weeks” — one of which ends this Friday.