STACEY: HER COMMENTS ON
TRANS-GENDER PEOPLE HAVE HER ON
THE HOT SEAT TONIGHT.
STEVE: KCCI’S CHRIS GOTHNER
TELLS US WHY SOME ARE NOW ASKING
A STATE DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADER
TO STEP DOWN.
CHRIS THE CONTROVERSY STEMS FROM
: A FACEBOOK POST BY DEMOCRATIC
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEMBER
TISHA DUMKRIEGER .
IT LINKED TO AN ARTICLE ABOUT
TAMPON AND PAD MAKER ALWAYS
REMOVING THE FEMALE VENUS SYMBOL
FROM ITS PACKAGING TO BE
INCLUSIVE OF TRANSGENDER
CUSTOMERS.
DUMKRIEGER REMARKED IN PART, HOW
MUCH MORE MUST NATURAL BORN
MALES TAKE FROM WOMEN?, AND
TRANSWOMEN HAVE NO RIGHT TAKING
THAT AWAY FROM US NATURALLY BORN
WOMEN.
SHE’S NOW FACING CALLS TO
RESIGN, INCLUDING FROM THE GROUP
PROGRESSIVE VOICES OF IOWA.
LGBTQ GROUP ONE IOWA STOPPED
SHORT OF THAT WEDNESDAY, SAYING
THAT’S UP TO THE PART
BUT IT DID CALL HER COMMENTS
TRANSPHOBI
>> DISPARAGING REMARKS THAT ARE
MADE BY INDIVIDUALS AGAINST THE
LGBTQ COMMUNITY ARE REALLY
UNACCEPTABLE.
CHRIS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DAN
: ROYER SAYS IT’S ESPECIALLY
SURPRISING COMING FROM A MEMBER
OF A PARTY THAT TYPICALLY
SUPPORTS LGBTQ RIGHTS.
>> WHEN WE HAVE INDIVIDUALS WHO
MAKE DISPARAGING REMARKS LIKE
THIS, IT REALLY SETS THAT
PROGRESS BACK.
CHRIS DUMKRIEGER APOLOGIZED
: WEDNESDAY, POSTING IN PART IT
WAS NOT MY INTENTION TO HURT
OTHERS.
SHE SAYS SHE HOPES IT BECOMES A
TEACHABLE MOMENT.
IOWA DEMOCRATIC PARTY CHAIR TROY
PRICE, WHO IS OPENLY GAY, SAYS
ALL ARE WELCOME IN THE PARTY,
AND HE WAS DEEPLY UPSET BY THE
COMMENTS.
HE SAY "HER MOST RECENT
STATEMENT AND HER COMMENTS TO ME
HAVE EXPRESSED HER DEEP REGRET
AND SORROW FOR HER POST AND THE
PAIN IT HAS CAUSED.
I TAKE HER AT HER WORD."
ONE IOWA SAYS IT WOULD BE HAPPY
TO OFFER THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
TRAINING.
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