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

Calvin Freiburger : Mar 5, 2025
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"It is necessary to secure genuine equal protection for women and girls. It's why we have men and women's bathrooms but not men and women's conference rooms; girls' and boys' sport but not girls' math and boys' math; separate men and women's prisons but not different laws for men and women. Unfortunately, these common-sense protections were at risk because, before I signed this bill..." -Gov. Kim Reynolds

(Des Moines, Iowa) — [LifeSiteNews.com] Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds signed legislation Friday to remove "gender identity" from the state's nondiscrimination code, eliminating one of the pillars of LGBT activists' efforts to force a "right" to "transition" procedures, access to opposite-sex facilities, and more through the courts. (Screengrab image: via C-SPAN)

House File 583 deletes "gender identity" as a protected class from the Iowa Civil Rights Act, which had first been amended to add it in 2007. It also clarifies that "gender," when "used alone in reference to males, females, or the natural differences between males and females shall not be considered a synonym for sex and shall not be considered a synonym or shorthand expression for gender identity, experienced gender, gender expression, or gender role."

Last Thursday, it passed the Iowa Senate 33-15 and the House 60-35, both times along party lines. Reynolds signed it into law the next day, the Daily Caller reported... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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