BREAKING: Montana Republicans vote to bar the state's first trans legislator from the House chamber after she criticized colleagues who supported a measure to restrict gender-affirming care for minors and was accused of inciting protesters.
Rep. Zooey Zephyr, D-Missoula, alone on the House floor stands in protest as demonstrators are arrested in the gallery Monday in the Montana State Capitol.Montana House Republicans voted Wednesday to censure Rep. Zooey Zephyr, a Democrat and Montana's first transgender state legislator.
On Wednesday she said that the Legislature has “systematically attacked” the LGBTQ community and that she was speaking in its defense last week. Rep. David Bedey, a Republican, blamed Zephyr for the actions of protesters on Monday, when they shouted from the gallery after Republicans voted to block her from speaking.
“This is an assault on our representative democracy,” he said. “Spirited debate and the free expression of ideas cannot flourish in an atmosphere of turmoil and incivility.”
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