Officers and enlisted. Combat veterans and recent recruits. Transgender service members say their military experience has looked nothing like the portrayal of them in the political arena.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) says legislation to prevent transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports will go to the Senate floor “early next week,”

Senate Democrats will take a politically difficult vote on Monday when Republicans bring to the floor a bill preventing transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports. The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act,

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) will move Thursday on the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act — with a procedural vote planned for Monday, according to people familiar with the matter.

The bill signing by Gov. Kim Reynolds makes Iowa the first state in the country to take away civil rights from a group it has previously protected.

Iowa lawmakers passed a bill Feb. 27 that would end nondiscrimination protections for transgender people amid massive protests at the Capitol.

Iowa became the first state to remove gender identity protections from its civil rights code on Friday when Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law a bill that opponents say will expose transgender people and other Iowans to discrimination in all aspects of daily life.