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Kera Birkeland, lawmaker behind Utah’s anti-trans laws, resigns from Legislature

The Republican lawmaker’s announcement comes after she won reelection this fall to Utah’s House District 4 and weeks before the beginning of the 2025 general legislative session.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rep. Kera Birkeland, R-Morgan, presents her bill to narrow Utah's legal definitions of sex to exclude transgender people (HB 257) at a meeting of the House Business and Labor Committee at the Utah Capitol in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024.