Gender and Gender Issues

A Des Moines OBGYN shares how the current political climate has impacted patients and lawmakers discuss a new bill that would remove gender identity as a protected characteristic from the Iowa Civil Rights Act.

Expert readers discuss Alice Walker's The Color Purple on this archive episode of the Talk of Iowa book club.

On this special edition of Talk of Iowa, a taste of the storytelling event, Stories to Tell My Daughter

A federal judge has blocked Title IX protections for LGBTQ students from taking effect in Iowa and several other Republican-led states including Missouri, Arkansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota.

A trans teen in Iowa says he's faced little discrimination, but recent Iowa laws could change that for other trans youth.

The name we are given, the name we call ourselves and the names other people use to refer to us are powerful parts of our identity.

The new federal rules aim to protect students across the country from discrimination based on gender identity and/or sexual orientation.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill into law Wednesday to end a requirement for state and local government boards and commissions to have an equal number of men and women.

Republicans in the Iowa House of Representatives voted Monday to repeal a law that requires state and local boards and commissions to have an equal—or nearly equal—number of men and women, sending the bill to Gov. Kim Reynolds’ desk for her signature.

The weight room was once considered men's domain, but more and more women are lifting weights and reaping physical and mental benefits, including an improved relationship with their own bodies.