Senate Majority Leader says Vilsack "out of touch" on gender identity

Senate Majority Leader Stewart Iverson is asking Governor Vilsack to reversean executive order that prohibits employee descrimination based on genderidentity. Iverson, a republican, says the order goes too far in extendingspecial protections to transexuals employed in state government. Iverson, a republican, says this isn’t an order that Iowa needs. He says thegovernor has gone too far and is out of touch with the people of Iowa.Iverson says the executive order is a payback to Iowa’s gay and lesbiancommunity for their support in electing Vilsack, who is a democrat.The governor signed the executive order in September, but the provisioninvolving gender identity has gone unoticed until now.