A bill that would require all students in Iowa to use school bathrooms according to their biological sex cleared the state’s Senate Education Subcommittee on Wednesday. The proposed legislation “prohibits a person from entering a school single and multiple occupancy toilet facility that does not correspond with the person’s biological sex.” It also declares that such prohibition would “not constitute unfair or discriminatory practices in violation of the Iowa Civil Rights Act.” Similar bills have been introduced in the past, but this one is the first to receive a subcommittee hearing, according to Des Moines Register. The bill is now heading to the full Senate Education Committee for consideration. Republican state Sen. Jim Carlin, who sponsored the bill, said its purpose is to protect women and girls from sexual predators. “The intention or purpose behind this bill is not any animus or hatred towards anybody in the LGBT community,” Carlin said, …