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Iowa’s Governor Signs Bill Removing Gender Identity from State Civil Rights Code

Iowa Republicans passed a bill eliminating protections for transgender individuals, making Iowa the first state to do so, with a vote of 33-15 along party lines.
The bill removes the ability for transgender people to access housing and employment aligned with their gender identity, according to the Iowa House of Representatives.
Senator Matt Blake expressed concern that the bill allows discrimination against all Iowans, stating that it represents the tyranny of the majority.
GLAAD's CEO, Sarah Kate Ellis, warned that this legislation signals a broader threat to civil rights protections for all communities.

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Iowa first to 'unprotect' a group

Iowa’s governor Kim Reynolds and her Republican-dominated legislature recently signed into law House File 583 and Senate File 418, stripping transgender Iowans of their rights under the Iowa Civil Rights Act.

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Iowa becomes first state to remove civil rights protections for transgender people

Iowa has become the first state to remove civil rights protections for transgender people. Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the bill Friday, just a week after it was introduced in the state Legislature. The law takes effect in July and is already facing pushback.

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Thousands protest as Iowa Republicans become first in U.S. to repeal civil rights for trans people

DES MOINES, Iowa—On Thursday, Feb. 27, thousands of people flooded the Iowa Capitol, their voices rising in defiant chants of “Our rights we prize, our liberties we will maintain,” the Iowa State Motto, as Republican lawmakers voted to strip transgender Iowans of their legal protections.

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Gender ID civil rights repeal only new law thus far in Iowa’s 2025 legislative session

Iowa lawmakers this week hit their first ‘funnel’ deadline, which eliminated from further consideration any bills that did not receive a prescribed level of support.

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How to protect your trans coworkers now that Iowa won't

Now that Iowa Republicans have passed their latest bill attempting to force us all into their pretend gender binary (which won’t go into effect until July 1, if it’s not stopped in the courts before then), it got me thinking: If Iowa employers can now fire our transgender and nonbinary coworkers simply for being trans and nonbinary, how can we protect them? The good news is, in Iowa, many bosses tend to want such protections in their union contr…

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