South Dakota
Anti-LGBTQ groups plan to put an anti-transgender measure on the ballot in 2017, the Argus Leader reports:

South Dakota voters could decide whether to ban transgender students from certain bathrooms and locker rooms on the 2018 ballot.
Attorney General Marty Jackley announced Tuesday morning that supporters of a ban filed a petition to begin the process of letting voters consider the topic. If the proposal gains enough support, South Dakota would be the first state to bring the question to the ballot.
The Secretary of State’s office had yet to receive its copy of the petition, which would require 13,871 signatures statewide to appear on the ballot by November of 2017 to appear on the 2018 general election ballot.

Anti-LGBTQ graffiti has become a problem at South Sakota State University, KDLT reports:

South Dakota State Junior Tanner Johnson put a LGBT Pride flag on his dorm room door to decorate his room. Over the last two weeks, slurs have been written on a dry erase board on three separate occasions.

Iowa
The Cedar Rapids Planned Parenthood is adding transgender healthcare services to its line-up of services, Little Village reports:

Starting in January, the Cedar Rapids Planned Parenthood Health Center (3425 1st Ave. SE) will be providing a new range of health care services for members of the transgender and gender nonconforming communities, including hormone therapy along with continuing healthcare and lab work.
“We had an interest in providing these services to better serve the needs of our entire community,” Misty Rebik, the regional director of strategic partnerships and development at Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, said. “We’ve had a lot of phone calls asking questions and people wanting to get on the waitlist.”
Currently, the University of Iowa LGBTQ Clinic in Iowa City does provide care for members of the LGBTQ community, but Angela Finken Axdahl, regional director of Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, said said the distance and limited hours (Tuesdays from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.) can be a barrier to people in the Cedar Rapids area.
“Some of us would think nothing of going down to Iowa City, but it is a barrier to some, especially those without a car,” Finken Axdahl said. “To be able to provide that care here and take down a barrier means the world to me. We’re excited to be assisting patients to become who they really are.”

One of Iowa’s medical provider networks has agreed to provide transition-related care for an Iowa transgender man, North Iowa Today reports:

Yesterday, the ACLU of Iowa and ACLU LGBT Project announced that Amerigroup, one of Iowa’s private Medicaid providers, agreed to pay for gender affirming surgery for Andrew Evans, a transgender Iowa man and ACLU client.
Evans was initially unable to receive coverage for the procedure due to a Medicaid ban on transition-related surgeries in Iowa law. The ban applies even if a medical professional deems surgery medically necessary. Medicaid covers many of the same surgeries for people who aren’t transgender. Although Amerigroup has now agreed to cover Evans’ procedure, the ban remains in place.
“We are pleased that Evans’ surgery will be covered,” One Iowa Executive Director Donna Red Wing said. “However, we continue to be concerned that exclusions for transgender surgery and other trans-related health care continue in Iowa and across the nation. One way to ensure transgender people have access to quality health care is for our insurance companies to remove those exclusions.”