Iowa lawmakers are expected to vote on an unprecedented bill that would remove protections based on gender identity from the state civil rights code.

The Iowa House approved a bill Thursday that would strip the state civil rights code of protections based on gender identity, less than an hour after the state Senate backed the legislation. First introduced last week,

Republican push to repeal Iowa's gender identity protections comes as Iowa City parent's suit uses that law to challenge 2023 school bathroom bill.

Iowa has became the first U.S. state to remove gender identity protections from its civil rights code. Republican Gov.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill that strikes gender identity from Iowa law, making the state the first to remove civil rights from a previously protected class.