"We're not going to be protesting in a way that is comfortable for her that she can act like it doesn't exist," the transgender student said.
During Tuesday's subcommittee hearing, University of Iowa doctoral student Emma Denney compared the bill's ID requirements to Nazis forcing LGBTQ+ people to wear pink triangles. "You are trying to do the same thing again here in Iowa by forcing trans people to have unique designations on our identification," Denney told the committee. "Trans people already face overwhelming employment and housing discrimination in Iowa under existing law, and the governor's bill would force us to out ourselves and open ourselves up to more violence anytime we have to show an identification."
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