Wisconsin
*The Menasha School Board in the east central part of Wisconsin is considering a gender inclusion policy, the Post Crescent reports:

The Menasha school board is considering a policy that would allow transgender or gender nonconforming students to use restrooms, change in locker rooms and be referred to with pronouns for the gender with which they identify.
Chris Vanderheyden, Menasha’s superintendent, said educators drafted the transgender nondiscrimination guidelines when a transgender student asked to use the restroom for the gender she identifies with.

*Though some changes are happening at the local level, a University of Wisconsin study shows that the state is falling behind in transgender-inclusive policies for students. The Badger Herald has the details:

While some districts are more supportive of pro-transgender initiatives, others are often indifferent, with some even opposing protections, Brian Juchems, senior director of education and policy at GSAFE, said. He said Wisconsin is behind other states in implementing modern non-discrimination policies for transgender people.

“Where we once were a leader, we now are a follower,” Juchems said.

*A poll by Public Policy Polling found that the legalization of marriage equality has had little effect on Wisconsonites with 70 percent saying it has not affected them personally.

Iowa
*Presidential contender, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, raised eyebrows at an event in Des Moines when he bashed marriage equality, the Des Moines Register reports:

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz cast himself as a leading Republican opponent of same-sex marriage during an appearance before a crowd of evangelical Christians in Des Moines on Monday.
Cruz, R-Texas, described the ongoing shift toward legal recognition for gay couples as an “unrelenting assault on traditional marriage,” and castigated judges who have struck down prohibitions for “ignoring their oaths, ignoring the Constitution and legislating from the bench.”

*Bleeding Heartland reports that efforts to repeal marriage equality in Iowa have gone nowhere:

Following up on this post from last month, the latest version of a state constitutional amendment restricting marriage to one man and one woman in Iowa is dead for this legislative session. House Joint Resolution 4 didn’t make it so far as a subcommittee hearing, let alone passage by a full committee before the “funnel” deadline late last week.
Iowa House Judiciary Committee Chair Chip Baltimore never assigned the bill to any subcommittee. When I asked him about the status of the bill on February 24 (a month after the bill was introduced), Baltimore’s response was telling.

South Dakota
*Two bills that would repeal a transgender-inclusive high school athletics policy in South Dakota have been defeated.

North Dakota
*The mayor of the small town of Thompson, North Dakota, is one of 226 mayors around the country asking for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in favor of marriage equality.