Iowa Ends Transgender Civil Rights Protections

“Over the protests of hundreds of Iowans chanting ‘no hate in our state,’ Iowa’s Republican-dominated Legislature voted Thursday to pass a bill removing gender identity as a protected class in the state’s civil rights act,” the Des Moines Register reports.

“Democrats warned history wouldn’t look kindly upon lawmakers for inviting oppression of transgender Iowans.”

“The bill, which Gov. Kim Reynolds was expected to sign as soon as Thursday evening, ends 18 years of state law protection for transgender Iowans.”