Iowa will become the first state in the nation to remove a protected class from a state’s civil rights act. Gov. Kim Reynolds on Friday signed into law legislation passed Thursday by Republican ...

Protesters in the Iowa Capitol expressed dismay and chanted "shame!" Thursday after the bill that rescinds civil rights protections for transgender Iowans passed in the House and Senate.

The lawsuit argues the bathroom law violates the protections for gender identity in the Iowa Civil Rights Act. When asked what was his message to transgender Iowans who feel their state government ...

On February 28, Iowa's governor signed a bill that removes protections for transgender and nonbinary people from the state's civil rights law, in a move that opponents say is unprecedented.

Republicans changed the Iowa Civil Rights Act by removing additional protections for gender identity. Iowa Democrats added those protections in 2007. Republican leadership decided to speed up the ...

Iowa on Friday became the first state to strip transgender citizens of civil rights protections. Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law a bill that removes gender identity as a protected class in the ...

Iowa, however, now holds the dubious distinction of becoming the first statehouse to repeal civil rights protections for trans people. The bill legislators passed on Thursday explicitly removes ...

Kim Reynolds signed a law Friday removing gender identity as a protected class in the Iowa Civil Rights Act. The signing makes Iowa the first state in the country to take away civil rights from a ...

Iowa became the first state to strike anti-discrimination protections for transgender people from its civil rights code on Friday after the state’s Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds signed hotly ...

While it was an eventful week at the Iowa Capitol, a lot of focus was concentrated on legislation that would remove gender identity protection for the Iowa Civil Rights Act. The first was shuttled ...

Iowa Republican lawmakers voted Thursday to pass a bill removing gender identity as a protected class in the Iowa Civil Rights Act — setting up the state to potentially be the first in the nation to ...