The governor of Iowa signs a bill that involves transgender protections

Iowa Republican governor. Kim Reynolds He signed a bill on Friday that eliminates protections for transgender people in the State Civil Rights Code.

While not all states have protections for transgender people, Iowa Democrats added them to the Civil Rights Code in 2007.

Iowa is the first state to eliminate the protection of gender identity from its state civil rights code.

The new law continues President Donald Trump’s Executive orders only recognize two sexes, restrict sex change operations and restrict trans people in the army, as well as state efforts to prohibit trans women from women’s bathrooms and women’s sports.

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The bill also defines men and women based on the person’s reproductive organs at birth.

Iowa’s civil The Rights Code will still include protections for race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, religion, national origin and disability status.

Reynolds described the bill in a video that uploaded to X on Friday.

“Today I am signing a bill that safeguards the rights of women and girls,” he said. “It is common to recognize the obvious biological differences between men and women. In fact, it is necessary to ensure equal protection for girls. That is why we have bathrooms of men and women, but do not site from conferences of men and women. Sports of girls and boys, but not the mathematics of girls, the mathematics of the boys.”

She said that “these common sense protections were at risk because, before signing this bill, the Civil Rights Code Borrosó the biological line between the sexes.”

Reynolds acknowledged that it is a “sensitive issue for some, many of whom have heard wrong information about what this bill does. The truth is that it simply puts Iowa in line with the Federal Civil Rights Code, as well as most states.”

He added that every Iowan, “without exception, deserves respect and dignity. We are all children of God and that no law changes that.”

Trump pointed out his approval of the law on Thursday, shortly before it was signed.

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“Iowa, a beautiful state that I have won a big time, has a bill to eliminate the radical gender ideology of its laws,” Trump wrote in Truth Social. “Iowa should follow the example of my executive order, saying that there are only two genres, and approve this bill, as quickly as possible. Thank you Iowa!”

The critics of the law say that it will allow transgender people to be discriminated against in all aspects of life.

Iowa’s state Democratic representative, Aime Wichtendahl, who identifies as a transgender woman, said: “The purpose of this bill and the purpose of each Anti-Trans bill is to erase us even more from public life and stigmatize our existence. The total sum of each draft Anti-Trans and Anti-LGBTQ is to make our existence illegal.”

The protesters also filled the roundabout of the State Capitol on Thursday, holding signals such as “Trans rights are human rights” and shouting: “I do not hate in our state!”

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Keenan Crow, who directs the policy and defense of the LGBTQ One Iowa defense group, told The Associated Press that the group will take any “available” legal action, and added that they are still trying to understand how the law will apply.

All Democrats in the House of Representatives and the Senate voted against the bill and joined five republicans of the Chamber.

The law enters into force on July 1.

Associated Press contributed to this report.