Throughout President Joe Biden’s administration, the transgender agenda skyrocketed in many ways. Men were competing against women in sports and winning women’s records at alarming rates. At one point, Biden redefined Title IX to allow “the basis of sex” to encompass “gender identity.”
President Donald Trump has pledged to stop transgender “lunacy” instituted by Biden from continuing any further. One state recently took a major step in this direction, as well.
On Sunday, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) signed a bill ending civil rights protections from so-called “transgender” people. This is because Reynolds removed “gender identity” as a protected class in the Iowa Civil Rights Act.
Reynolds doubled-down on her stance in a video posted to X.
"It's common sense to acknowledge the obvious biological differences between men and women," Reynolds said in a video posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. "In fact, it's necessary to secure genuine equal protection for women and girls."
“Before I signed this bill, the civil rights code blurred the biological line between the sexes and has also forced Iowa taxpayers to pay for gender reassignment surgeries,” she said.
Today, I signed into law a bill that safeguards the rights of women and girls. pic.twitter.com/bjEEsAW6aR
— Gov. Kim Reynolds (@IAGovernor) February 28, 2025
According to the Des Moines Register, a Democratic-controlled Iowa Legislature and governor's office enacted protections for gender identity and sexual orientation in 2007.
"Transgender individuals will be protected, like all Americans, by the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, federal law, the Iowa Constitution and Iowa law," Republican state Rep. Steven Holt told the Register.
