Montana House to Vote on Punishing Transgender Lawmaker Zooey Zephyr
Republican leadership have silenced the lawmaker after she stood up for gender-affirming health care.
April 26, 2023
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Republican leadership have silenced the lawmaker after she stood up for gender-affirming health care.
Lawmakers banished their transgender colleague after she spoke out strongly against a ban on gender-affirming care.
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After Zephyr was barred from the House chamber, she had to work in the hallway, and some women tried to stop her from even doing that.
The lawmaker is joined by the ACLU of Montana in seeking her reinstatement to the building.
Republicans voted to bar Zephyr from speaking on the floor of the state legislature in 2023 after she said that conservatives' ban on gender-affirming care for youth would result in “blood on [their] hands.”
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