March 20, 2025 It seems as if the Trump administration is rushing to tear apart as much as it can as opponents of its wholesale destruction of the United States government organize to stop them.

March 20, 2025

Iowa Trans Mutual Aid Fund

www.iowatransmutualaidfund.org

Slide 1: Pink, white, and blue text over a background image of a trans flag. Text Reads: The 2025 Trans Rights Readathon: A decentralized grassroots event that focuses on UPLIFTING trans books, AMPLIFYING trans stories, and SUPPORTING trans organizations and communities. March 21-31, 2025.

Slide 2: Text Reads: The #TRR Isn’t Just Reading, It’s Action! The Trans Rights Readathon encourages readers to seek out works by and/or about trans, nonbinary, 2Spirit, and gender non-conforming authors and characters. Along with taking action on the mutual, local, and national level! Image includes a blue box with the word UPLIFT, a white box with the word AMPLIFY, and a pink box with the word SUPPORT with a dollar sign in place of the S.

Slide 3: Text Reads: It’s not too late to sign up! You can find resources, graphics, and more information via our website. We also encourage you to sign up and so we can communicate with you throughout the readathon. This effort is decentralized. We encourage you to get involved and support your local community directly!

Slide 4: Text Reads: Get Loud, Stay Loud. Trans people, trans voices, trans stories have always been here, and will always remain. If this is your first or third readathon, you’re an author or a reader, an accomplice, young or old—let’s always remain loud for Trans Rights!

SHE’S HERE! The Trans Rights Readathon has officially begun! ✨🥳🎊🎉📚 #booksky #trr25 #transrightreadathon

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Crow noted such obscenity laws have been in place for decades. “I would challenge anyone in this room to come up with a single book in their local library or school that meets the Miller test (for obscenity); not that you disagree with it,” Crow said, who was then interrupted by a woman who dumped a stack of books in front of them on the committee room table.

My friend Keenan, Director of Policy and Advocacy at One Iowa, had books dumped on their table at a committee hearing on a proposed bill to remove Iowa obscenity law exemptions for libraries and schools, protected in theory by the Miller Test.

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It’s hard to be a a librarian in Iowa right now.

Gender identity would no longer be a protected under Iowa Civil Rights Act in House proposal • Iowa Capital Dispatch The legislation, introduced by Rep. Steven Holt Thursday, would remove gender identity as a protected class under Iowa law.

Iowa Republican lawmakers introduced legislation Thursday to remove gender identity as a protected class from the Iowa Civil Rights Act, Robin Opsahl reports. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/02/20/g...