<p>Iowa's removing gender identity protections from the civil rights code.</p><p>Governor Kim Reynolds has signed into law a bill that opponents say will expose transgender people and other lowans to discrimination.</p><p>It creates explicit legal definitions of  female and male based on people's reprodutivem organ at birth, rejecting the idea that a person can trasition to another gender.</p><p>Both the Lowa House and Senate approved the bill on Thursday even as hundreds of opponents filled the state's capitol, chating slogans and testifying against it.</p><p>It takes effect July 1.</p><p>I'm Mike Hempen.</p><p> </p>
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