{"id":208,"date":"2018-02-01T23:42:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T04:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/?p=208"},"modified":"2018-02-01T23:42:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T04:42:31","slug":"instagram-post-iowa-bathroom-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/uncategorized\/instagram-post-iowa-bathroom-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Instagram&#8221; Post &#8212; Iowa Bathroom Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the ongoing battle over bathroom laws, Iowa Republicans\u00a0 have just put forward a new bill,\u00a0House File 2164, which would allow businesses and schools alike to discriminate against transgender people; it would block them from using the bathroom which matches their gender identity. Sandy Salmon, the bill&#8217;s representative, says that the bill is intended to &#8220;protect women and girls&#8221; by blocking potential sexual predators from entering the women&#8217;s bathroom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GettyImages-645383308-1200x799-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-213\" src=\"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GettyImages-645383308-1200x799-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GettyImages-645383308-1200x799-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GettyImages-645383308-1200x799-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GettyImages-645383308-1200x799-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GettyImages-645383308-1200x799-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This move comes despite mounting evidence that blocking people from using their preferred bathroom does not, in any way, reduce sexual assault. This social issue is interesting to me because it raises the point: Do the lawmakers truly believe they are protecting women? Or are they simply disguising their biasses against trans people?<\/p>\n<p>#LGBTQexperiencesUSA #transphobia #BathroomBill<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2018\/02\/01\/iowa-just-introduced-an-anti-trans-bathroom-bill\/<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;AG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the ongoing battle over bathroom laws, Iowa Republicans\u00a0 have just put forward a new bill,\u00a0House File 2164, which would allow businesses and schools alike to discriminate against transgender people; it would block them from using the bathroom which matches their gender identity. Sandy Salmon, the bill&#8217;s representative, says that the bill is intended to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/uncategorized\/instagram-post-iowa-bathroom-bill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Instagram&#8221; Post &#8212; Iowa Bathroom Bill&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/LGBTQexperiences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}