Signed by Governor Kim Reynolds

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits the recognition of gender identity as a protected class under the Iowa Civil Rights Act.

Highlights:

• Repeals gender identity as a protected class of individuals (Sec. 144.23).

• Requires a new certificate of birth to include a designation of sex of the person at birth (Sec. 144.23).

• Specifies that if a new certificate of birth is established, it must include designation of the individual's sex under section 144.23 (Sec. 144.23).

• Specifies “sex” as meaning the state of being either male or female as observed or clinically verified at birth (Sec. 26).

• Specifies “gender identity” as an individual's subjective identification as male, female, or neither male nor female (Sec. 27).

• Specifies “gender theory” as the concept that an individual may properly be described in terms of an internal sense of gender that is incongruent with the individual’s sex as either male or female (Sec. 279.80).

• Expands “gender theory” it include the concept that an individual who experiences distress or discomfort with the individual’s sex should identify as and live consistent with the individual's internal sense of gender, and that an individual can delay natural puberty and develop sex characteristics of the opposite sex through the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical procedures (Sec. 279.80).

• Prohibits any program, curriculum, text, survey, questionnaire, promotion, or instruction relating to gender theory or sexual orientation to students in kindergarten through grade 6 (Sec. 279.80).

Full Bill Text

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that prohibits the recognition of gender identity as a protected class under the Iowa Civil Rights Act.

Highlights:

• Repeals gender identity as a protected class of individuals (Sec. 144.23).

• Requires a new certificate of birth to include a designation of sex of the person at birth (Sec. 144.23).

• Specifies that if a new certificate of birth is established, it must include designation of the individual's sex under section 144.23 (Sec. 144.23).

• Specifies “sex” as meaning the state of being either male or female as observed or clinically verified at birth (Sec. 26).

• Specifies “gender identity” as an individual's subjective identification as male, female, or neither male nor female (Sec. 27).

• Specifies “gender theory” as the concept that an individual may properly be described in terms of an internal sense of gender that is incongruent with the individual’s sex as either male or female (Sec. 279.80).

• Expands “gender theory” it include the concept that an individual who experiences distress or discomfort with the individual’s sex should identify as and live consistent with the individual's internal sense of gender, and that an individual can delay natural puberty and develop sex characteristics of the opposite sex through the use of puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical procedures (Sec. 279.80).

• Prohibits any program, curriculum, text, survey, questionnaire, promotion, or instruction relating to gender theory or sexual orientation to students in kindergarten through grade 6 (Sec. 279.80).

Full Bill Text