Iowa City, IA
May 5, 2023
Vol. 103
Issue 4
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CITY RESPONDS TO TRANSPHOBIC LEGISLATION By Isaac Bullwinkle Earlier this year on March 22, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds signed a pair of bills into law restricting both restroom and locker room access for transgender students whose gender identity differs from their biological gender as well as criminalizing gender-affirming care such as the prescription of puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones for transgender adolescents. The United States has been recently experiencing an unprecedented wave of anti-transgender legislation. Recent bills passed in the Iowa House like HF 2309, which essentially states that publicly-funded schools cannot allow transgender girls to participate in female sports, have become increasingly popular in US politics over the last year. These laws are also increasing in severity; a bill like HF 2309 might only affect a tiny percentage of athletes, much less students; in comparison, the recent bills passed by Reynolds are already restricting thousands of Iowan transgender and gender nonconforming students’ bodily and medical autonomy. Noah Seebeck ‘23 was one of several trans students at City who spoke out immediately against the passing of these bills, whose subjects are particularly trending across other states’ legislatures; numerous similar or identical laws restricting transgender healthcare and/ or bodily autonomy have recently been passed in states primarily with republican-controlled congresses.
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New Astronomy Club to Design Solar System Scale Model
Why Book Banning is Bad for Education By Tai Caputo Two bomb threats at Northwest Junior High School on March 23rd and 24th accompanied the demand for the removal of a book called This Book is Gay from the school’s library. This heinous menace of violence and death to students and educators has brought debates about book banning to the forefront of the Iowa City Communi@instalittlehawk
ty School District (ICCSD). Several Iowa bills have been passed in recent months banning books with explicit sexual content, racial themes, and LGBTQ+ characters...
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By Tai Caputo As a five-year-old, Kaden Huntley ’25 was so fascinated by space that he gave a report on black holes for the Willowwind School Talent Show. Now, the sophomore is the founder of the new Astronomy Club, which has embarked upon a project to make a scale model of the solar system on the City High The Little Hawk
lawn. Members of the Astronomy Club hope the scale model will give students an idea of the vastness of the universe. “We want to educate the community,” Huntley said. “Space is so much bigger than...
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