Iowa’s extreme Don’t Say Gay bill challenged in new lawsuit

The law, which bans sexual content in school library books, even has an exemption for the Bible.

Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds (R)
Photo: Gage Skidmore – Wikimedia Commons

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Iowa and Lambda Legal have filed a lawsuit to block a so-called “parental rights” law that has been compared to Florida’s infamous “Don’t Say Gay” law.

Senate File 496, signed by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) in May, bans instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in K­–12 classrooms and requires school officials to notify parents if their kids request to use pronouns or names that do not correspond to the sex they were assigned at birth. It also bans books featuring depictions of sex acts from school libraries, but as The Hill notes, the law includes an exception for religious texts like the Bible, which has been challenged under similar policies in other states due to its sexual content.

The law went into effect on July 1, but as KCRG notes, penalties…

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