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CHICAGO — Chicago attorney Jill Rose Quinn won the Democratic primary on Tuesday for a vacant judicial seat. After the November election, she will be the state’s first out transgender elected official.
ROCKFORD — Trans 101, an event meant to educate people on transgender people and the trans community, has been cancelled.
CARBONDALE — The First Presbyterian Church of Carbondale will host a Transgender Day of Visibility event on Tuesday, March 31.
SPRINGFIELD — The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library will host a forum on Albert Cashier, a transgender man who served in the Union Army during the Civil War on Thursday, March 12.
PALATINE — The school board of District 211 voted to settle a lawsuit over facility access for transgender students, ending an controversy lasting for more than four years.
DES MOINES — A bill that would have removed transgender people from the state’s civil rights law was stopped before it even got to a subcommittee.
The Associated Press reported on Thursday that State Rep. Steven Holt, Repubilican chairman of the state House Judiciary Committee, would not allow the bill to move forward.
“It’s dead,” Holt told the AP. “It just would have had a lot of unintended consequences.”
DES MOINES — A group of Republican state representatives want to repeal any protections for transgender people by removing them from the Iowa Civil Rights Act.
State Representatives Dean Fisher, Anne Osmundson, Terry Baxter, Tedd Gassman, Thomas Gerhold, Phil Thompson, Tom Jeneary, Skyler Wheeler, and Sandy Salmon released HF 2164 on Wednesday.
LGBTQ rights group One Iowa quickly condemned the bill.
DES MOINES — Republican lawmakers in Iowa have proposed a bill to limit the flags can be flown on the statehouse after a transgender flag was flown on the Transgender Day of Rememberance last year.
FRANKFORT — A bill that would limit high school and college athletes to competing only as the gender they were assigned at birth was submitted this week in the Kentucky legislature.