GET ME REWRITE: Iowa House GOP leadership keeps transphobia on front burner

 

Headline:  Des Moines Register, 2/9/2026

Marissa Payne reports:

Over chants of "love not hate," Iowa GOP lawmakers advanced two bills barring local governments from establishing protections against gender identity-based discrimination and exempting LGBTQ conversion therapy from the definition of child abuse. 

LGBTQ advocates have resoundingly condemned those efforts, and more than 100 protesters filled a hallway of the Iowa Capitol Monday, Feb. 9, as a three-member House panel approved House Study Bill 664 — Gov. Kim Reynolds' bill barring local governments from setting non-discrimination policies protecting trans and nonbinary people. [emphasis added]

The measure would expand the state's 2025 law that eliminated gender identity as a protected class in the Iowa Civil Rights Act.

According to Merriam-Webster, the first known use of 'front burner', as in a matter of priority, occurred in 1945,

Other coinages from the same year include:

1. across-the-board
2. all that
3. balls out
4. beggar-thy-neighbor
5. d'oh
6. fundamental group

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