Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr asked a court Monday to allow for her return to the House floor after she was silenced over legislation to restrict gender-affirming health care.
Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr asked a court Monday to allow for her return to the House floor after she was silenced and barred for chiding her Republican colleagues over legislation to restrict gender-affirming health care and for encouraging protesters.
The legal challenge against House Speaker Matt Regier and statehouse Sergeant-at-Arms Bradley Murfitt comes with just days left in the Legislature’s biennial session. Murfitt said he would not comment on the lawsuit, and Regier did not return telephone messages and an email seeking comment.Montana House members voted Wednesday to bar transgender Rep. Zooey Zephyr from participating in deliberations on the House floor for the remainder of the legislative session.
“Suicide amongst transgender youth is not imaginary," Wong said."It is not a game and it is not a political foil. It is real. It is heartbreaking. And it is the responsibility of my representative to speak out against bills promoting it." Republican legislative leaders in Montana persisted Monday in forbidding Democratic transgender lawmaker Zooey Zephyr from participating in debate.
She spent the first day of her exile last week battling to use a bench in a Statehouse hallway. Her key card to access Capitol entrances, bathrooms and party workspaces was deactivated, according to the lawsuit.
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