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.
Zooey Zephyr was also misgendered by some of her GOP colleagues after comments she made against a bill restricting gender-affirming care.
Republican Rep. Cheryl Helmer also falsely claimed trans people are predators and denounced gender-affirmation surgery.
Beyond the discriminatory nature of the bill, LGBTQ+ advocates say the legislation threatens the ability to even document violence against the community.
The Republican governor now has to decide whether he will sign into law the bill that limit transgender people’s ability to go to which bathroom.
With the election of Olivia Hill and others, the Nashville-Davidson County governing body now has a female majority.
The trans power couple is bringing a lot of people joy online and making right-wingers seethe.
Republicans in Montana are attracting the same scrutiny that Tennessee GOP lawmakers over protests in the Tennessee capitol.
"It's actually surprisingly easy to be a parent to a trans kid," Rabbi Daniel Bogard told Missouri legislators. "The only hard part we have experienced is you all."
Attacking the rights of transgender Americans doesn’t appear to be a winning strategy.
Despite medical professionals insisting bans on gender-affirming care for minors “amount to state-sanctioned medical neglect and emotional abuse," politicians won't relent.
The transgender lawmaker is out with her first bill to help financially vulnerable Americans.
In a landmark year for trans rights in South Asia, transgender lawmakers might become a reality.
Ashley Brundage, Nathan Bruemmer, and Vance Ahrens are all vying to be Florida's first transgender lawmakers.
Lawmakers banished their transgender colleague after she spoke out strongly against a ban on gender-affirming care.
A Pakistani lawmaker made the bizarre assertion that those people who are considered transgender must "keep one hole for urination."
Dozens of the nation's lawmakers have hung the transgender flag at their offices in a show of support as Trump's trans military ban moves forward.
A measure that would have prohibited the transgender lawmaker from using the women's restroom failed in committee Tuesday, with even several Republicans voting against it.
State Sen. Tony Bisignano doubled down on calling out Republican lawmakers for stripping away civil rights protections for transgender people in an interview with The Advocate.
“If you pass this bill today, know that you’re forcing me to use the bathroom with your daughters, wives, mothers, and sisters,” a bearded transgender man told the lawmakers.
Mace, an anti-LGBTQ+ Republican South Carolina congresswoman, invited Crockett, a Texas Democrat, to “take it outside” when the latter pointed to the GOP lawmaker’s constant attacks on transgender people.