A standoff has endured over whether Montana Republicans will let a transgender Democrat in the state House participate in proceedings
Silenced Transgender Lawmaker
Though they did not specify whether they were calling for Zephyr's censure or expulsion, the caucus's demands for discipline reflect how the standoff over remarks Zephyr made last week continues to boil and will likely take on expanded significance in theover the role of protest in democracy.
Zephyr, undaunted, has said she does not intend to apologize and argued that her remarks accurately reflected the stakes of such bans for transgender kids. On Monday, she said the seven arrested were “defending democracy” and in a morning speech said that the sequence of events that followed her remarks illustrated how they had struck a chord with those in power.
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