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IOWA CITY — The Iowa City Council unanimously adopted a resolution Tuesday reaffirming its commitment to protecting the LGBTQ+ community’s civil rights. The move comes after Republican state lawmakers this year passed a bill that changed the state’s Civil Rights Act.

The resolution was proposed in part to bring attention to city code, which has identified gender identity as a protected class since the mid-1990s, and to remind residents of local measures available to protect against discrimination, city leaders said.

Senate File 418 , which was passed by the Iowa Legislature, signed by Gov. Kim Reynolds, and went into effect July 1, removed gender identity as a protected class from the Iowa C

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