‘Stop these crazy bills’: Republicans join Democrats to defeat anti-trans legislation in Montana
by Nina Lakhani from US news | The Guardian on (#6VRTJ)
One bill would remove trans children from their parents, and the other would ban drag shows and Pride marches
Republican lawmakers in Montana voted en masse to help defeat two extreme anti-trans bills in an unprecedented move on Thursday, after powerful speeches from two trans representatives imploring them to reject the latest intent to criminalize gender nonconformity.
State representative Zooey Zephyr spoke out against a bill that sought to ban drag performances and Pride parades in Montana, introduced by a Republican member of of the house who has referred to transgenderism as a fetish based on crossdressing".
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