Six Iowa House Republicans voted against Senate File 496 on Tuesday. The bill includes language involving instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation, ensuring age-appropriate materials are in school libraries and that parents must be notified if a child wants to be considered the opposite gender at school.
Here are the six Republicans who voted against the Parental Bill of Rights in Education:
*Rep. Michael Bergan represents House District 63, which includes Decorah, Jackson Junction, Clemont and other communities. Bergan said he “inadvertently” voted yes but intended to vote against it. Meaning instead of voting to protect children from dangerous sex-change treatments and surgeries, Bergan meant to vote in support of continuing the experimental, often irreversible sex-change treatments and surgeries.
*Rep. Chad Ingels represents House District 68, which includes Oelwein, Dunkerton, Jesup, Raymond, Fayette, West Union and other communities. Ingels also said on the floor last week it was “disappointing” Republicans were passing the legislation to protect kids from the radical sex-change treatments and surgeries.
*Rep. Megan Jones represents House District 6, which includes Storm Lake, Spencer, Newell, Sioux Rapids, Albert City, Marathon and other communities. Jones also tried to kill a bill protecting kids from sex-change treatments and surgeries with an amendment that would have allowed parents to change the sex of their children under a twisted view of “parental rights” and “parental choice.”
*Rep. Brian Lohse represents House District 45, which includes Polk City, Alleman, Elkhart, Bondurant, Runnells, Carlisle and other communities. Lohse also made these comments on the floor of the Iowa House during debate on a bill protecting Iowa kids from sex-change treatments and surgeries.
*Rep. Hans Wilz represents House District 25, which includes Ottumwa and some neighboring communities. Wilz was the only Republican freshman to vote against the bill protecting children from sex-change treatments and surgeries, and he is also the only freshman to vote against the bathroom bill.
*Rep. Austin Harris represents House District 26, which includes Centerville, Albia, Melrose, Mystic, Moravia, Bloomfield and other communities. Harris is in his first year as a member of the Iowa House.
Are these six republicans actually ideological democrats identifying as republicans?