I hope you don’t think that being a (recently) red state is why this happened. Blue states are also very often racist, homophobic, transphobic, terrible places. Especially for black trans women. This shit happens all over America, not just in Iowa or Oklahoma or West Virginia. Iowa has the anti-discrimination laws of…

This post is actually misrepresenting that part of the story. The part about The Drury Inn treating Meagan and her friend in a super racist and transphobic way is 100% true. But she was placed in protective medical custody by her own request. She had a hospital bed, was able to skype with a minister who was raising…

I want to reply to so many comments on this thread as a LGBTQ Des Moines resident and (full disclosure) someone who worked at an Iowa LGBT group at the time this happened. Seems to be a lot of hate for the state of Iowa and one of the largest cities there on this thread. West Des Moines is a suburb of the capital…