Becky Smith, Executive Director of Iowa Safe Schools, holds a transgender flag behind the signing ceremony for House File 2416, prohibiting transgender women and girls from competing in female sports offered by Iowa schools, colleges and universities, on Thursday, March 3, 2022, in the rotunda of the Iowa State Capitol, in Des Moines. Efforts in Republican-led states to write definitions of male and female into law are leading to outcry that the measures deny transgender people legal recognition. At least 13 states have proposed bills this year that seek to narrowly define sex or gender as binary. (Kelsey Kremer/The Des Moines Register via AP) **FILE**
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