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Headline: Des Moines Register, 12/23/2025
With scant notice, Emma Denney dropped everything last winter to travel from Iowa City to the state Capitol to respond to a "new horror" — a handful of proposed bills targeting transgender and nonbinary Iowans.
Denney, a 32-year-old unemployed freelance artist who earned her doctorate from the University of Iowa in May, came out as transgender shortly after moving from Los Angeles to Iowa City in 2020.
For the first time in her life, she was surrounded by a number of other trans people whose experiences, she realized, resonated with her own, pushing her to publicly embrace her identity.
She was among the thousands of trans Iowans and their allies who protested as Iowa Republican lawmakers in February swiftly advanced landmark legislation ending transgender and nonbinary Iowans' civil rights protections.
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