Des Moines Register15d
Businesses helped defeat Iowa's past efforts to end trans rights. This time, they're quiet.
Dozens of major business leaders, including those at Principal, lobbied legislators that year to pass the law expanding the Civil Rights Act, helping put Iowa on the forefront of LGBTQ rights two ...
The Hill on MSN13d
Iowa governor signs nation’s first bill removing transgender civil rights protections
The bill, introduced last week, sped through the Legislature despite widespread opposition from Democrats and LGBTQ rights ...
Radio Iowa8d
New Iowa law may prompt LGBTQ people and families to leave the state
The leader of an Iowa LGBTQ rights nonprofit is encouraging Iowans who want to change the sex on their Iowa birth certificate ...
Des Moines Register13d
Reynolds signs law ending trans civil rights protections; Iowa 1st state to repeal rights
Reynolds, a Republican, signed the fast-tracked legislation privately Friday, one day after a heated day of protests and debate in the Iowa Capitol as more than 2,000 LGBTQ rights supporters ...
Iowa lawmakers vote to remove gender identity as a protected class
Iowa’s Republican-led Legislature voted Thursday to remove gender identity as a protected class from the state’s civil rights code, sending the first-of-its-kind measure to Gov. Kim Reynolds ...
The Associated Press on MSN9d
Iowa gives final approval to a bill removing gender identity protections despite protests
Iowa lawmakers became the first in the nation to approve legislation removing gender identity protections from the state’s ...
Iowa Public Radio9d
LGBTQ rights organization says it's getting more calls about state ID changes
The law signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds that removes gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act also removes the way ...