( SRN NEWS ) Iowa has become the first state to remove so-called “gender identity” from its civil rights code under a law that took effect this week. That means transgender and nonbinary residents are no longer part of a special protected class. The law also explicitly defines male and female based on biological reality […]
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( SRN NEWS ) Iowa has become the first state to remove so-called “gender identity” from its civil rights code under a law that took effect this week. That means transgender and nonbinary residents are no longer part of a special protected class. The law also explicitly defines male and female based on biological reality and removes the ability for people to change the sex designation on their birth certificate. Also taking effect are provisions in Iowa’s budget that say Medicaid recipients are no longer covered for sex-change operations or hormone therapy.
( ) Zohran Mamdani, an outspoken critic of Israel, is the expected Democratic nominee for mayor in America’s most Jewish city and that’s raising alarms among some in New York’s Jewish community. They’re worried about rising anti-Semitism and their waning political influence in the Big Apple. Mamdani has declined to support the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state, refused to denounce the term “global intifada” and supports the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions program — an organized effort to put economic pressure on Israel through boycotts and other tactics.
( ) A man suspected of gathering information on Jewish locations and individuals in Berlin for Iranian intelligence, possibly with a view to carrying out attacks, has been arrested in Denmark. Prosecutors say the man is a Danish national and was tasked by an Iranian intelligence service with gathering information on “Jewish localities and specific Jewish individuals” in Berlin. German security authorities stepped up protection for Jewish and Israeli facilities after hostilities recently broke out between Israel and Iran over the latter nation’s nuclear program.
( ) The Supreme Court’s ruling that states can bar sex-change operations on children is already having an effect. Rulings in favor of transgender people have been thrown out in four states. The high court has ordered appellate judges to reexamine cases from Idaho, North Carolina, Oklahoma and West Virginia involving access to sex-change operations and changes to birth certificates. A growing number of states are passing laws aimed at protecting children from radical medical procedures designed to allow them to live as the opposite sex.