A new Iowa law bans local nondiscrimination protections on the basis of gender identity after the state became the first in the U.S. to rollback its civil rights code last year. The preemption law ...

People ejnoy the Ames Pride fest in downtown Ames on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023, in Ames, Iowa. A new state law has overturned Ames' gender identity ordinance just one month after it was approved.

Hundreds of Iowans gathered at the Capitol in 2025 to protest the Legislature removing gender identity as a protected class from the Iowa Civil Rights Act. Now, the state's civil rights protections ...

Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed a new bill into law that will restrict local civil rights protections across Iowa.

Iowa Senate Republicans passed a bill blocking local protections against gender identity-based discrimination, sending the bill to Gov. Kim Reynolds.

The Iowa Department of Education has ceased counting nonbinary students in its yearly demographics after the passage of a 2025 state law.

Gov. Kim Reynolds' bill would bar local governments from setting their own policies protecting trans and nonbinary people from discrimination.