Iowa Lawmakers Pass Bill to Eliminate Transgender Civil Rights Protec…

Iowa lawmakers overwhelmingly passed a bill on Thursday that would end state civil rights protections for transgender people. Advocates for L.G.B.T.Q. rights said that Iowa would become the first state to remove such broad and explicit protections for trans people if the Republican-backed measure was signed into law.

The bill, which now goes to the desk of the Republican governor, passed 18…