IA: Gender identity removed from the Iowa Civil Rights Act
Enacted7/10
Iowa · Iowa SF 418 (2025) · Signed Feb 28, 2025
Impact 7/10
Senate File 418 removed gender identity as a protected class from the Iowa Civil Rights Act, making Iowa the first state to strip an existing protected class from its civil rights law. The law ends state-level protections for transgender Iowans against discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations, and credit, defines sex as binary in state code, changes birth certificate rules, and restricts instruction related to gender theory in early grades. It was signed February 28, 2025 and took effect July 1, 2025.
LGBTQ+Government & civil serviceHousingTransgender / nonbinary
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