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GOOD v. IOWA DEPT. OF HUMAN SERVICES

No. 18-1158.

924 N.W.2d 853 (2019)

EerieAnna GOOD and Carol Beal, Appellees, v. IOWA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Filed March 8, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Miller , Attorney General, Matthew K. Gillespie and Anagha Dixit , Assistant Attorneys General, for appellant.

Rita Bettis Austen of ACLU of Iowa Foundation, Des Moines, John Knight of ACLU Foundation LGBT & HIV Project, Chicago, Illinois, and F. Thomas Hecht , Tina B. Solis , and Seth A. Horvath of Nixon Peabody LLP, Chicago, Illinois, for appellees.

Bob Rush of Rush & Nicholson, PLC, Cedar Rapids, and Steve Sanders of Maurer School of Law, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, for amici curiae Iowa Scholars of Law, History, Bioethics, Gender, and Sexuality.

Paige Fiedler of Fiedler Law Firm, P.L.C., Johnston, Robert R. Stauffer and Lindsey A. Lusk of Jenner & Block LLP, Chicago, Illinois, and Devi M. Rao of Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae The American Medical Association, The Iowa Medical Society, The American College of Physicians, Mental Health America, National Association of Social Workers, and GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBT Equality.

Sharon Malheiro and Katelynn T. McCollough of Davis Brown Law Firm, Des Moines, for amici curiae One Iowa, Individual Transgender Iowans, and Allies.

Joshua Matz and John C. Quinn of Kaplan Hecker & Fink, New York, New York, and Joseph C. Glazebrook , Des Moines, for amici curiae Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., National Center for Transgender Equality, Transgender American Veterans Association, Transcend Legal, Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, Transgender Allies Group, Transgender Resource Center of New Mexico, and The Southern Arizona Gender Alliance.

Roxanne Barton Conlin of Roxanne Conlin & Associates, P.C., Des Moines, and Matt M. Fogelberg , and Paul E. Bateman Jr. of Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago, Illinois, for amici curiae National Health Law Program, National Women's Health Network, and Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights.

Katie Ervin Carlson of Timmer & Judkins, P.L.L.C., West Des Moines, and Lindsay Nako and Daniel J. Nesbit of Impact Fund, Berkeley, California, for amici curiae Impact Fund, et al.

In 2007, the Iowa legislature amended Iowa Code chapter 216—the Iowa Civil Rights Act (ICRA)—to add "gender identity" to the list of protected characteristics. See 2007 Iowa Acts ch. 191, §§ 5, 6 (codified at Iowa Code § 216.7(1)(a) (2009)). We must now determine whether the language...

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