Jeff Shipley (born August 9, 1988) is an American politician from the state of

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currently serving in the

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as the representative of

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87. Shipley was born in

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, in 1988 and was raised in Naperville, Illinois, where he graduated high school. He received his B.A. in

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from the

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in 2010. Since 2011, he has been a resident of Fairfield,

. In March 2021, Shipley stated that the term " white privilege" is "racist on its face" and believes that when the term "white privilege" is used, it judges him based on the color of his skin, saying it was "just as

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advised people not to do". In late January 2024, Shipley proposed a bill to remove gender identity protections from Iowa civil rights law and classify

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as a disability. The bill was eventually rejected on January 31. Shipley previously compared affirming

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identity or gender dysphoria to affirming a

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, saying "a sarcoma would be treated with aggressive therapies to remove or heal the cancerous growth and that same medical framework should be applied to the epidemic of identity disorders".

Electoral history

2014

2018

2020

2022

References

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