CBS Saturday Morning was not happy at Iowa for daring to pass a law that insists that an individual’s sex is immutable. Additionally, the Hawkeye State’s decision was said to be a “civil rights reversal” as it removed “civil rights protections for transgender people.”
Guest co-host Errol Barnett began, “We begin this half hour with a civil rights reversal. Iowa’s now the first state to remove civil rights protections for transgender people. Governor Kim Reynolds signed that bill Friday, just one week after it was introduced in the state legislature. As Lana Zak reports, the law, which takes effect July 1st, is already facing pushback.”
Zak began her report, which also aired the previous night on the CBS Evening News Plus streaming show, by hyping, “The unprecedented act sparked outrage as lawmakers debated hundreds…